MarCom recognizes Town of Orangeville twice in 2020

The Town of Orangeville is being recognized twice in 2020 for Marketing and Communications Excellence. The Town is the recipient of an international MarCom Award for its COVID-19 Recovery plan winning a gold award in the category of Strategic Communications; the Town also received an Honourable Mention for the 2020 Budget Document which redesigned how the budget is presented. 

Corporate Services General Manager Andrea McKinney announced the award at the December 7 meeting of Orangeville Council. The Town received the MarCom statuette which is a symbol of marketing and communication achievement. The Town also received a certificate for the budget document. This recognizes the focus on both the quality of content as well as the design and creativity of the documents as the Town seeks to provide meaningful, relevant information in a way that is easy to understand and to access.

“Receiving global recognition in the form of the MarCom award reinforces and recognizes the quality and abilities of the Corporate Services team at the Town of Orangeville, led by General Manager Andrea McKinney,” said Mayor Sandy Brown.

The COVID-19 Recovery Plan is available in both Community and Business versions, in both digital and print formats. The budget document took a huge step forward in 2020 by modernizing the approach, providing more details to the community on the services the Town provides and what’s being achieved, with more to come in 2021. Visit the Town’s winning documents on the municipal website. 

Marcom Awards honour excellence in marketing and communication while recognizing the creativity, and hard work of industry professionals. Since its inception in 2004, MarCom has evolved into one of the largest, most-respected creative competitions in the world. Each year about 6,000 print and digital entries are submitted from dozens of countries. 

MarCom is administered by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP). The international organization, founded in 1995, consists of several thousand marketing, communication, advertising, public relations, digital and web professionals.  

An interactive map shows where winners are located and is searchable by location and category. Each winning entry has its own dedicated page.