Capital Strategies Wins Best of Show at the ADDY Awards Ceremony

Contact: Ken Eudy
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Raleigh, N.C. - Capital Strategies received nine ADDY? Awards, including a Best of Show Award, at the Ad Club of the Triangle's awards program on Feb. 22 at the North Carolina Museum of History. The ADDY? Awards are the most recent honors the agency has received.

Capital Strategies received the Best of Show Award in the Print category for Red Hat's Annual Report. The agency also received four Gold Awards, two Silver Awards and two Bronze Awards for work completed for Raleigh-based photographer Jimmy Williams, Life FX, Highwoods Properties, ScienceCarolina, beyondRoads.com and the Morehead Planetarium at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

With more than 60,000 entries, the ADDY? Awards are the nation's largest advertising competition. Winners of the local competitions proceed to regional contests and possibly to the national finals.

PICA Awards
The Printing Industry of the Carolinas recently recognized Capital Strategies in several categories of its annual PICA Awards. Marc Harkness, senior designer, was awarded Favorite Print Job and a Judges Award for a high-end promotional brochure for photographer Jimmy Williams.

Capital Strategies also received awards in the following categories:

• Special Judges Award - Promotional Campaigns for Highwoods Properties Regional Promotions
  
• Special Judges Award - Presentation Folders for Highwoods Properties RTP Presentation Folder
  
• The Award of Excellence - Our Favorite Job of the Year for Precision Marketing Books
  

Print Magazine Annual
Capital Strategies was featured in Print Magazine's 2002 Regional Design Annual, a trade publication that showcases the best work by graphic design professionals from around the country. Capital Strategies' entry was for a catalog created for artist Thomas Sayre. The annual includes 37 selections from North Carolina and 213 from the southern United States.

About Capital Strategies
Capital Strategies is a full-service public relations, public affairs, marketing communications and design firm based in Raleigh. The company's services include strategic communications planning, media relations, grassroots programs, brand development, graphic design and Web development. PRWeek, the public relations industry's leading trade publication, named Capital Strategies a finalist for its 2002 Mid-Sized Agency of the Year award.