The Manahan Group (TMG) recently walked away with two Gold and two Silver ADDY Awards at the 2005 Advertising Association of Charleston (AAC) awards ceremony.

Both Gold awards were presented for the agency’s work on behalf of the Division of Tobacco Prevention’s Raze campaign. TMG created the teen tobacco prevention effort in 2002 and has won numerous advertising awards. This year’s projects consisted of a Public Service Mixed Media Campaign and a Public Service Single Medium Campaign for the Raze Success television spot. The Raze advertising effort has helped reduce teen tobacco use in West Virginia by 34%.

The Gold award winners will be entered in the regional competition.

TMG brought home a Silver award in the Sales Promotion Packaging, Single Unit category for the “Making the Dream a Reality” box designed for the West Virginia Housing Development Fund. TMG also won a Silver award for its Neufinish logo.

The Manahan Group is a marketing and public relations agency specializing in the health care, transportation, government, and tourism industries.

With over 60,000 entries, the ADDY Awards are the world’s largest and arguably toughest advertising competition. The ADDY Awards represent the true spirit of creative excellence by recognizing all forms of advertising from media of all types, creative by all sizes and entrants of all levels from anywhere in the world. The American Advertising Federation (AAF), a not-for-profit industry association conducts the ADDY Awards through its 200 member advertising clubs and 15 districts. It is the only creative awards program administered by the advertising industry for the industry.

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