A total of 65 awards were presented with multiple agencies and companies winning awards.

The Novus International, Inc., In-House Marketing Communications team was recognised with a Merit Award in the Company Publications – Annual Reports Category for the 2012 Sustainability Report.

Novus, along with Kenna B. Rathai Communications and Feature Group USA, was also recognized with a Merit Award in the Company and Association Newsletters — External Directed to Dealers & Distributors category for the Novus Knowledge Ahead Newsletter. This group was also recognized as a National Finalist for Interactive Marketing Tools for the Minerals Training Webinar.

The Novus brand video was also recognised as a National Finalist in the Audio/Video category. Produced by Novus and Once Films, the video has been locally recognized previously through the TAM Awards.

“Novus is honored to be recognized along with the very impressive field of work that was submitted in our region and all who advanced to nationals,” said Tracy Barfield, Executive Manager, Novus Marketing Communications. “We want to congratulate all of our colleagues in agricultural communications who were recognised as finalists, Merit Award, First Place Award and Best of Show winners.”

The Best of NAMA awards program honors the best work in agricultural communications. Actually, the best of the best, since companies/agencies must first qualify through regional competition in order to advance to the national level.