27 October 2004

Hydro magazine wins best European multi-language publication award

Hydro’s global employee magazine, Hi! (Hydro Inside), has been named Europe’s best multi-language publication 2004.

The magazine is written, designed and produced by Item and Hydro’s in-house team, based in Oslo. It won the best internal multi-language publication award in the annual Grand Prix competition designed to find Europe’s best business publications and organised by FEIEA, the Federation of European business communicators’ associations.

The accolade comes just months after Hi! was named both best multi-language and best new publication 2004 in the UK’s Communicators in Business Awards.

The Grand Prix final, which took place in Berne, Switzerland, at the end of October, was judged by a jury made up of representatives from 13 countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK.

“If people thought they were good in their national competitions, then this competition sets a whole new standard,” says Maritta Arvidsson, FEIEA Grand Prix co-ordinator. “To win in Europe, you really do have to be good."

Alison Crossley, Item’s Managing Director and a member of the magazine’s Anglo-Norwegian team, said: “When the magazine was launched last December we set out to produce a magazine that was seen as outstanding by Hydro people and by our peers in business communications.

“To be named best in the UK and the best in Europe within a year is absolutely fantastic, and a credit to everyone involved in the magazine.”

Link: www.feiea.org

Winning team: The Hi team celebrate in Copenhagen