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| PPA Awards 2004 |
Thursday 2 December 2004
PPA Ireland announces winners of this year's magazine awards
The winners of the PPA Ireland Magazine Awards 2004 were announced tonight at a gala dinner at The Four Seasons Hotel, Dublin. The awards were created four years ago to recognise and reward the best Irish magazines in a number of sectors. 350 people from the publishing industry, representing nearly 200 Irish titles, gathered at the event to pay tribute to the outstanding achievements of this year's winners.
The PPA Ireland Magazine Awards 2004 winners are:
Consumer Magazine of the Year is U magazine from Harmonia. Sponsored by Newspread, the award was presented by Laurence Roe to editor, Deirdre O'Keeffe.
Publisher of the Year, is Niall Stokes of Hot Press whose titles include Hot Press; MQ; Enterprise and hotpress.com. The award was sponsored by Lithographic Web Press and presented by Tony Amoroso.
Consumer Specialist Magazine of the Year,
sponsored by WNS and
presented by Dick Hughes, went to House and Home
from Dyflin Publications.
Business to Business Magazine of the Year,
sponsored by An Post and
presented by Susan O'Connor, went to
Checkout.
Business to Business Specialist Magazine of the Year, sponsored by the Boylan Group and presented by Gerry Boylan , went to Hospitality Ireland.
Editor of the Year is Roisin Carabine of House and Home Products for House and Home, Build Your Own House and Home, Renovate Your House and Home and Irish Kitchens and Bathrooms. The award was presented by Chris Boyd from ABC.
Designer of the Year is
Garret Whelan of Harmonia for Cara and SQ Christmas Magazine.
The award
is presented by Noel Lane from Future Print.
Customer Magazine of the Year went
to A Magazine from HMG Advertising and Marketing for Eddie Shanahan
at Arnotts and was sponsored by Sooner Than Later.
The award was presented
by Mark Finney.
Annual of the Year, sponsored by Polestar went to Build Your Own House and Home from Dyflin Publications. The award was presented by one of the judges Tara Buckley.
Interactive Magazine of the Year is
the website www.iVenus.com from
Harmonia.
The award is sponsored by Combined Media was presented by
Colm Lynam.
Religious Magazine of the Year is
The Word from Divine Word Missionaries.
The award was presented by
one of the judges Ray Douglas.
The chairman of the judging panel, Mr. Steve Shanahan, Chief Executive, Institute of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland (IAPI) said: " I am pleased to see ABC as the co-sponsor of these awards. It demonstrates a commitment by PPA Ireland to the openness and transparency of circulation figures. This, combined with two substantial pieces of research on both consumer and B2B magazines which PPAI published in the last year shows an investment in their industry and gives advertisers added confidence in the power of magazines as an advertising medium".
Joining Steve on the judging panel were Tom McGowan, President of the AAI; Laurence Roe, MD of Newspread: Gerry Davis, Chief Executive, Public Relations Institute of Ireland; Tara Buckley, Director General, RGDATA; Mark Smith, Chairman, Northern Ireland Region of the Institute of Public Relations; Ray Douglas, Creative Director, Anderson Spratt Advertising.
Speaking at the event, Deputy Chairman of PPA Ireland, Gerry Daly said “the Executive of PPA Ireland has had a very extensive agenda to deliver on during the past twelve months, and significant achievements have been made in developing and promoting the Irish magazine industry. Despite being challenged by increased costs of production and delivery, and by even greater competition, the industry has reported increasing revenues, and increased profits, and it is refreshing to see the number of publishers who are investing in new concepts, and creating excellent developments of existing products. The evidence for the continuing success of Irish magazines is their ranking as best sellers in every category, and the superb service offered to business customers. At tonight's Magazine Awards, we are delighted to be able to recognise such dynamism and entrepreneurial skill”.
Commended in each category were:
Consumer Magazine of the Year:
Easy Food – Zahra Publishing
Image – Image Publications
Consumer Specialist Magazine of the Year
Golf Digest Ireland –Walton Media
Irish Arts Review - IAR
Business to Business Magazine of the Year
Irish Entrepreneur – Morrissey Media
Business to Business Specialist Magazine of the Year
Architecture Ireland – Nova Publishing
Retail News – Tara Publishing
Editor of the Year
Richard Buckley – Business Eye
Customer Magazine of the Year
Atlantic Homecare Inside and Out – Ashville Media
Annual of the Year
Maternity – Ashville Media Group
SQ Christmas Magazine – Harmonia
Designer of the Year
Colin Hanley – Irish Entrepreneur
Emma Carty – Irish Tatler
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Deirdre Barry (Garden
Heaven) and Gerry Boylan (Boylan print). |
William and Christine
Scully of Newsspread |
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Alistair and Kelda
Lewis |
Sandra Nolan and
James Hughes of Newsspread |
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Andrew Crozier
and Karen McAvoy of Mainstream publishing |
Sally-Ann Graham
and Olga Kearney of Sooner than Later |
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Mary and Tony Lynch
of Magazine Mailing |
Celine Curran and
Tracy Ormiston of Image magazine. |
 Dean Graimes, Marie Catherine Mousseau and Colin Kerr of Irish Medical Times. |
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