Feature: Motivcom, BI and Carlson win with Eventia

Nigel Cooper, director of motivation and events group Motivcom, received the outstanding achievement award at the annual Eventia International Awards this month.

He was given the accolade after his two-year tenure as chairman of the events industry association and his role heading Motivcom’s events businesses at P&MM, AYMTM and Zibrant.

Cooper is pictured centre with Eventia chairman Rob Allen (left) and Eventia executive director Izania Downie (right).

P&MM also won a Gold Award at the ceremony at Grosvenor House, London, for its incentive travel programme for Bose consumer electronics. The incentive to Peru was named best consumer marketing programme.

The award for most effective delivery of return on investment went to communications and motivation company BI for its Motovation programme for Motorola.

Carlson Marketing won Gold for most creative use of a venue’s facilities for a programme created for medical technology company Medtronic Vascular.

The full details of the winners from the ceremony on February 1:

Most Creative Use of a Small Budget
Gold: Love You To Death TV Show Launch(DNA Productions for FremantleMedia Enterprises)
Silver: Medtronic Cocktail Reception PCR07 (Carlson Meetings & Events for Medtronic Vascular Bronze: O2 Celebrate (AYMTM for O2 UK)

Most Creative Use of a Venue’s Facilities
Gold: Medtronic Cocktail Reception PCR07 (Carlson Meetings & Events for Medtronic Vascular)
Silver: The Inauguration of Train 5 (Vantage Point & Haggie Hepburn for RasGas Company)
Bronze: Canon Europe 50th Anniversary Event (Grimaldi Forum, Canon Europe & Tequila Hakuhodo for Canon Europe)
Finalist: Thomas Cook VI Conference 2006 Malta (DRP Group for Thomas Cook)
Finalist: Spirit of Lexus (Opus Creative Marketing for Lexus Europe)

Best Use of Logistics
Gold: The Hundred Percent Club, Mauritius 2007 (Jack Morton Worldwide and Banks Sadler for IBM Hundred Percent Club)
Silver: Shaping the Future; Destination Stockholm 2007 (Line Up for Volvo)
Bronze: Drophead Coupe Launch (Grass Roots for Roll-Royce Motor Cars)
Finalist: Brilliant Weekends Winter Sports Activity (Brilliant Weekends)
Finalist: Oracle Club Excellence 2007 (Carlson Meetings & Events for Oracle)
Finalist: Cisco Networkers 2007 (George P. Johnson for Cisco)
Finalist: Ford Mondeo Sardinia (Maritz for Ford)
Finalist: Cricket World Cup 2006, West Indies (Zinc Management for LG Electronics)

Best Promotional Communication
Gold: Courcheval 1850-The Phenomenon! (AddingValue for Vodafone)
Silver: Mission to Malta 2007 (WorldEvents for Abbott Vascular)
Bronze: “Love You To Death” TV Show Launch (DNA Productions for FremantleMedia Enterprises)
Finalist: Toyota Ichiban Client Satisfaction Awards (P&MM for Toyota Europe)
Finalist: Swift Helphire F1 Campaign (Zinc Management for Swift Helphire)

Best Product Launch
Gold: Shaping the Future; Destination Stockholm 2007 (Line Up for Volvo)
Silver: Spirit of Lexus (Opus Creative Marketing for Lexus Europe)
Bronze: Drophead Coupe Launch (Grass Roots for Rolls-Royce Motor Cars)
Finalist: Ford Mondeo Sardinia (Maritz for Ford)
Finalist: UK Indies Pavilion (Pact)

Public Event of the Year
Gold: Sony a (BCD Meetings & Incentives for Sony Marketing Europe)
Finalist: Standard Chartered Jersey Marathon (3D Performance for Standard Chartered Bank)

Best Celebratory Event
Gold: Thomas Cook VI Conference 2006 Malta (DRP Group for Thomas Cook)
Silver: The Inauguration of Train 5 (Vantage Point & Haggie Hepburn for RasGas Company)
Bronze: Canon Europe 50th Anniversary Event (Grimaldi Forum, Canon Europe & Tequila Hakuhodo for Canon Europe)
Bronze: Toyota Ichiban Customer Satisfaction Awards (P&MM for Toyota Europe)

Best Event Demonstrating Corporate Social Responsibility
Gold: Canon Europe 50th Anniversary Event (Grimaldi Forum, Canon Europe & Tequila Hakuhodo for Canon Europe)
Silver: Sales Conference 2007 (BI for Unum)
Finalist: Kaupthing Annual Conference (Lunch Communications for Kaupthing Bank)

Most Creative Use of a Destination
Gold: MCI UK
Silver: Around the World in 360 Hours (TRO for Emap)
Bronze: Ford Licenced & Loaded (Maritz for Ford)
Finalist: Hundred Percent Club, Mauritius 2007 (Jack Morton Worldwide and Banks Sadler for IBM Hundred Percent Club)
Finalist: Landmark Annual Conference Stockholm (Maritz for Landmark)

Most Effective Delivery of Return On Investment
Gold: MOTOVATION (BI for Motorola)
Finalist: UK Indies Pavilion (Pact)

Best Conference or Congress Short Haul (under six hours from the UK)
Gold: Mission to Malta 2007 (WorldEvents for Abbott Vascular)
Silver: Thomas Cook VI Conference 2006 Malta (DRP Group for Thomas Cook)
Bronze: BT Global Services International Sales Kick Off 2007 (George P. Johnson for BT Global Services)
Bronze: Cisco Networkers 2007 - The Network as the Platform (George P. Johnson for Cisco)
Finalist: HP Technology@Work 2007 (Jack Morton Worldwide for Hewlett-Packard)
Finalist: The Unilever Ice Cream Conference 2007 (Jack Morton Worldwide for Unilever)
Finalist: Kaupthing Annual Conference (Lunch Communications for Kaupthing Bank)

Best Conference or Congress Long Haul (over six hours from the UK)
Gold: The Philips Summit 2007, Chicago (Jack Morton Worldwide for Philips)

Best Incentive Travel Programme Short Haul & (under six hours from the UK)
Gold: Courcheval 1850- The Phenomenon (AddingValue for Vodafone)
Silver: Toyota Ichiban Customer Satisfaction Awards (P&MM for Toyota Europe)
Bronze: RBS Chief Executive Awards 2007 (Carlson Meetings & Events for RBS Insurance)
Finalist: Kudos 2007 (BI for HBOS)
Finalist: Ford Licenced & Loaded (Maritz for Ford)

Best Incentive Travel Programme Long Haul (over six hours from the UK)
Gold: National Recognition Meeting (MCI UK for Eli Lilly)
Silver: Incentive Event (BI for Motaquip)
Silver: Platinum Club (Grass Roots for Royal & Sunalliance)

Best Incentive Travel Programme Long Haul (over six hours from the UK)
Silver: Reuters CEO Circle (Instinctif for Reuters)
Bronze: The Hundred Percent Club, Mauritius 2007 (Jack Morton Worldwide and Banks Sadler for IBM Hundred Percent Club)
Finalist: Bose Grand Adventures (P&MM for Bose)

Best Integrated Solution
Gold: Transforming Reuters Development (Instinctif for Reuters)
Silver: Around the World in 360 Hours (TRO for Emap)
Bronze: Bose Grand Adventures / The Bose Experience (P&MM for Bose)
Finalist: O2 Spirit Tropicool (AYMTM for O2 UK)

Best Consumer Marketing Programme
Gold: Bose Grand Adventures / The Bose Experience (P&MM for Bose)

Agency of the Year
Gold: Banks Sadler
Silver: WorldEvents
Finalist: DRP Group
Finalist: Zinc Management

Platinum Award
Courcheval 1850- The Phenomenon (AddingValue for Vodafone)