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  • R&P Management communications win IPRA Golden World Awards 2003

    MUMBAI: India-based R&P Management Communications is among 33 global winners of the Golden World Awards 2003 at the International Public Relations Association (IPRA) in New York.

    Organised by the International Public Relations Association and sponsored by Dai Nippon Printing Co Ltd, awards received entries from Australia, Canada, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Poland, Republic of Korea, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey, UK and the USA. Thirty three programmes from 14 different countries have won top prizes for excellence in public relations.

    R&P Management Communications won the award for a four year awareness campaign on plant biotechnology. Catering to agriculture, the campaign is designed to make farmers aware of the benefits of plant biotechnology, create an environment to make the biotech option available to them and promote acceptance through the spread of science-based information about plant biotechnology through multiple channels.

    The campaign used the country’s focus on IT and software to highlight biotechnology’s potential in India with the positioning: IT Today, Biotechnology Tomorrow.

    Says R&P Management Communications, managing director Roger C.B. Pereira, “I am delighted that our entry ‘Biotechnology in Agriculture – Generating Public Support & Acceptance” has won an award in the IPRA Golden World Awards. This is the second time we have been honoured with this prestigious award. We had earlier won the award for our social communications TV serial Humraahi, which also went on to win the UN Award.”

    The competition’s international jury, composed of 43 senior practitioners from 20 countries, adjudicated 219 entries in London on 5 September 2003. Criteria used by the jury to examine each entry included the competence and quality demonstrated in terms of research, planning, execution and evaluation, the clarity and coherence of messages, creativity and ethics, as well as local conditions in the country of origin.

    Each year the jury votes for one of the Category Awards winners to go forward as overall winner. The Grand Prize for Excellence will be announced and presented by Dai Nippon Printing Co Ltd chief executive Yoshitoshi Kitajima, at a gala GWA dinner in New York in February 2004.

  • Ford triumphs at BBC Top Gear Magazine awards 2003

    LONDON: Car enthusiasts can have their fill of vehicles that met critics approval in the April issue of BBC Top Gear Magazine which is on sale.

    Mercedes-Benz has scooped three of the magazines twelve annual Top Gear Awards. Peugeot and Honda both won two but the star awards. Best Driver’s Car and overall Car of the Year 2003, have gone to the Ford Focus RS, Ford’s new ‘hot hatchback’.

    Every year the Top Gear test team drives over 300 new cars hundreds of thousands of miles on roads and tracks in Britain and all over the world before coming to its conclusions on the winners. The television version of the franchise airs on BBC World.

    Though the sporty Ford Focus RS has been a Top Gear favourite since it was launched last autumn it had to beat off stiff competition from cars as diverse as the Ferrari Enzo supercar to the little Honda Jazz for the overall title.

    BBC Top Gear magazine editor, Kevin Blick said, “It’s a car that proves driving can still be fun and at a time when all we hear is about new restrictions on the motorist that is important to remember.”

    BBC Top Gear magazine is Britain’s best-selling general motoring monthly, with a circulation of 144,104 (ABC: Jul – Dec 2002). It is published by BBC Magazines – a division of BBC Worldwide Ltd.