27 March 2006

Item wins CiB communication awards

Highly-decorated publications Vodafone life! and Hi! have enjoyed further success after securing Awards of Excellence in the 2006 Communicators in Business (CiB) awards.

Hi!, produced for global oil, energy and aluminium company Hydro, won the Award of Excellence in two classes, the hotly-contested ‘magazines published more than six times a year’ and ‘multilingual publications’ categories.

Written, designed and produced by Item and a Hydro team in Oslo, Hi! is currently Europe’s best multilanguage magazine in the FEIEA (Federation of European Industrial Editors Associations) awards, a title held for the past two years.

The CiB judges said: “Hi! is an unusual and professionally-constructed publication with plenty of impact…it’s innovative, stylish, informative, attractive and a pleasure to read.”

Meanwhile, Vodafone life!, a global employee magazine written and designed by Item for the world’s leading mobile telecommunications company, has secured an Award of Excellence in the ‘multilingual publications’ category.

The judges described the magazine – which has won industry awards every year since it was launched in 2001 – as “intelligent, bright, brisk and packed with information…a highly professional publication that works hard to meet its stated objectives”.

The national CiB competition attracts nearly 1,000 entries in classes ranging across print, electronic media and communication skills.

Final class winners will be announced at the gala awards dinner in Bournemouth on 5 May.