2021 SABRE Awards EMEA Winners

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Platinum SABRE Award for Best in Show

Winner:
Lifetime Carbon Neutral — Velux with Ketchum UK and &Co.

Finalists:
#2: The last older person to die in loneliness — BBK Foundation with LLYC
#3: The Climate Store — Felix with Prime Weber Shandwick
#4: The Polite Type — TietoEVRY with TBWA\Helsinki
#5:  #whatsyourname — Starbucks with Iris and Edelman UK & Ireland

Diamond SABRE Awards

Company of The Year

• Iceland Feeds the Nation — Iceland Foods with Weber Shandwick

CEO of the Year

• Angela Cretu — Avon

The SABRE Award for Superior Achievement in Brand-Building

• Hertz Campers: How to avoid a crisis in a Jeep rooftop tent — Hertz Portugal with Corpcom

The SABRE Award for Superior Achievement in Reputation Management

• Shop Small by American Express — American Express with Agence Babel, fischerAppelt & Werbewelt, BCW

The SABRE Award for Superior Achievement in Research and Planning

• Calastone Fund Flow Index Media Performance — Calastone with FTI Consulting

The SABRE Award for Superior Achievement in Measurement and Evaluation

• VisitBritain’s measurement journey: how our qualitative KPIs have served us well in a disruptive year — VisitBritain with Commetric and Notified

Geographic

Africa

• Netflix Blood & Water — Netflix with Clockwork, Eclipse Communications

The Balkans

• Romanian Hygge — Storia.ro with MSL The Practice

The Baltic

• First Sticker That Saved People’s Lives— Polish Railway Lines with Partner of Promotion

Benelux

• The Dutch New Year’s Dive in times of Covid-19 — Unilever and Unox with Being There, and Banka Media

DACH

• Solve for Tomorrow — Samsung Electronics with Ketchum

Central & Eastern Europe

• The Protozoan Experiment — Stavební spořitelna České spořitelny with AMI Communications

France

• "Appart Solidaire": Open Homes for Covid Heroes — Airbnb with Maarc

Iberia

• The last older person to die in loneliness — BBK Foundation with LLYC

Mediterranean

• The Magic Triangle — Essity with Omnicom PR Group

The Middle East

• #4Humanity—Launching the World’s First Phase III Clinical Trial for an Inactivated Covid-19 Vaccine — G42 Healthcare with APCO Worldwide

Nordics

• The most CO2-friendly route — Neste with hasan & partners

Russia and the CIS

• How 7 Photoshopped fields saved hundreds of real ones — UAnimals with Gres Todorchuk

Turkey

• #ChooseKindness — Simple (Unilever) with PR House

United Kingdom and Ireland (Small Budget)

• Freeing up parking spaces for NHS heroes — Just Park with Ready10

United Kingdom and Ireland (Mid-Budget)

• Petfished — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs with 23red

United Kingdom and Ireland (Large Budget)

• Early Days Club — WaterWipes with Golin and The Brooklyn Brothers

Multi-Country Programme

• Know Your Rights — The Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority with Geelmuyden Kiese

Global Programme

• Buy Back Friday — IKEA with Edelman, UK & Ireland

Practice areas

Marketing Communications

Business-To-Business Marketing

• Creating Compelling Customer Communications — Shell with Edelman, UK

Consumer Marketing (Existing Product)

• The Originals — Cadbury and Age UK with Golin

Consumer Marketing (New Product)

• Marmite x Lynx: The World's First Social Distancing Deodorant — Lynx with W Communications

Integrated Marketing

• $5 million to save the country — Promprylad.Renovation with plusone

Corporate Reputation

Institutional Image

• Kulas into the light — CEZ Group in Romania with Rogalski Damaschin Public Relations

Employee Communications

• Ciao 2020 — IKEA Iberia with LLYC

Employer Branding

• SBB "Back to Business" — SBB Swiss Federal Railways with Farner Consulting

Executive Communications

• Kaspersky Exploring Russia — Kaspersky with Rodnya Creative PR Studio

Capital Markets Communications

• Reimagining retail — Landsec with Bladonmore

Engaging Society

Cause-Related Marketing

• #whatsyourname — Starbucks with Iris and Edelman UK & Ireland
  

Community Relations

• The Polite Type — TietoEVRY with TBWA\Helsinki

Corporate Social Responsibility

• Lifetime Carbon Neutral — Velux with Ketchum UK and &Co.

Public Education

• Beach Mode — Trygg-Hansa with BCW Stockholm

Advocacy

Crisis Management

• Never Have I Ever Sent — Cargus with Graffiti PR
  

Issues Management

• Becoming water smart, for good — Ecolab with Interel

Public Affairs

• How Logic Seduced The Dutch To Pay More For Their Meat — True Animal Protein Price Coalition with Omnicom PR Group Netherlands

Media Relations

Corporate Media Relations

• Signsbury's — Sainsbury's with Hope&Glory

Product Media Relations (consumer media)

• Meatballs at Home — IKEA with Hope&Glory

Product Media Relations (Trade Media)

• From Boring To Brilliant: How Clarity Put The PR Back Into GDPR For Start-Up Mine — Mine with Clarity

Digital and Social Media

Digital Campaign

• #UNHATEWOMEN —Terre Des Femmes - Menschenrechte für die Frau with fischerAppelt / Philipp und Keuntje

Social Media/Social Networking Campaign

• The world’s most beautiful gaming experience — Ubisoft Nordic with PR-operatørene with Kite communication & event

Influencer Marketing

• LinkedIn Changemakers — LinkedIn with Brands2Life

Branded Journalism

• How Novartis recast the pharmaceutical industry as the go-to destination for top tech talent — Novartis with FleishmanHillard

Word of Mouth

• Run Like a Kid — Asters with Be-it Health & Social Impact, part of One Philosophy Group

Experiential

Guerrilla Marketing

• #notsafeathome — BMFSFJ with Edelman, Gemany

Publicity Stunt

• Everybody Together — Sky Arts with Hope&Glory

Special Event

• How we turned a running marathon into a lifelong marathon — Nova poshta with Gres Todorchuk

Sponsorship

• Impossible Games — Fortum with Trigger Oslo

Trade Show

• Big Tent moves physical festival online and boosts diversity of attendees — Big Tent with Finn Partners

Specialist Audience

Marketing to Men

• New Year's again — The Danish Safety Technology Authority with Holm Kommunikation

Marketing to Women

• Time To Unite — Estée Lauder Companies with Virgo Health

Marketing to Youth

• Reclaim intimacy — Karo Pharma / Asan with Trigger Oslo

Marketing to Seniors

• Mask your face, not your problems — International Organization for Migration in Ukraine with plusone

Multicultural Marketing

• Wray & Nephew x Kano — Wray & Nephew with 3 Monkeys Zeno

Industry sectors

Consumer Goods

Automotive

• Nissan Leaf Dream Drive — Nissan with Edelman, UK

Fashion & Beauty

• ZX: Everything is Cake — adidas with W Communications

Food & Beverage

• The Climate Store — Felix with Prime Weber Shandwick

Home & Furniture

• IKEA Paternity Leave — IKEA with Rod/Farner Consulting

Consumer Products

• adidas Rent-A-Pred — adidas with Hill+Knowlton Strategies

Consumer Services

Entertainment

• #Fillthearena — Björklöven with Punkt

Financial Services

• #WhereYouShopMatters —  Visa with Asda'a BCW

Food Service

• I love my bistro — Collectif d’acteurs du secteur CHR with BCW France

Retailers

• Eau de New Car — Auto Trader with PR Agency One

Travel & Tourism

• "Appart Solidaire": Open Homes for Covid Heroes — Airbnb with Maarc

Business-to-Business

Energy and Natural Resources

• Change The Weather — E.ON with Engine MHP + Mischief

Chemicals & Industrials

• Talent-A Supporting Rural Women — Corteva Agriscience with Apple Tree

Professional Service Firms

• #20x20: If She Can't See It, She Can't Be It — Along Came A Spider with Ogilvy/Wilson Hartnell

Real Estate & Construction

• Sound Codes of Romania — Globalworth with Ogilvy Romania

Transportation & Logistics

• Future Seascapes — Lloyd's Register with The Romans

Technology

Consumer Electronics

• TfL x PlayStation 5: London Underground takeover to launch PlayStation 5 — PlayStation UK with Red Consultancy

Technology: Hardware

• Connecting the Falklands— Square and Mastercard with Harvard

Technology: Software & Services

• The Polite Type — TietoEVRY with TBWA\Helsinki

Telecommunications

• Text for Humanity — Sinch with Edelman, UK

Web-Based Business

• Thanks for Wanking — Badoo with The Romans

Healthcare

Animal Care

• Elevating good hygiene and responsible pet ownership to protect during Covid-19 — Mars Petcare with Edelman, UK & Ireland

Consumer Health

• Flirt for Food — Rennie with Unity

Healthcare Providers

• AXA Health - Switch It — AXA Health with MSL UK

Medical Technology

• Disrupting the PharmaTech Industry — Exscientia with Edelman, UK

Pharmaceutical: RX

• New Normal Same Cancer — AstraZeneca with GCI Health and Engine MHP

Non-Corporate

Associations

• The birth of a new influencer: Vaxinator fights hoaxes — Association of Innovative Pharmaceutical Industry with Seesame

Educational and Cultural Institutions

• #DIGITALNATIVE: 2020 Admission Campaign — ITMO University

Government Agencies

• Kazi Mtaani — State Department for Housing and Urban Development with Oxygène Marketing Communication

Not-For-Profit Organizations

• #UNHATEWOMEN — Terre Des Femmes - Menschenrechte für die Frau with fischerAppelt / Philipp und Keuntje