Mathrubhumi Club FM received the Advertiser of the Year Award at the 16th edition of the Pepper Creative Awards, which was held in Kochi on Friday evening at the Hotel Crowne Plaza. Raj Nair, CEO and CCO of Madison BMB, was the chief guest at the event.
Thiruvananthapuram-based PlainSpeak was presented with the special jury award for the best agency in Kerala. While Chennai-based OPN Advertising won the Best of Tamil Nadu Award, the Best of Karnataka Award went to Nirvana Films, based in Bengaluru. Nirvana Films has also won V-Guard Industries’ special award for creative excellence.
Apart from the region-specific Agency of the Year and Advertiser of the Year awards, 18 gold, 38 silver and 44 bronze awards were presented in 23 categories. The prize for the winner of Quest for Best Graphic Designers competition organised by the Pepper Trust in association with Sacred Heart College were also presented on the occasion. Ogilvy South Group Creative Director George Kovoor and Pepper Trust Chairman K. Venugopal also spoke at the award ceremony.
Trustees R. Madhava Menon. P. K. Natesh, Dr. T. Vinaykumar, U. S. Kutty, V. Rajeev Menon, G. Sreenath, Sandeep Nair, Anil James, Varghese Chandy, B. K. Unnikrishnan and Skandaraj were also present at the function.
