Indiantelevision.com Team

(25 September 2008 11:00 am)

MUMBAI: Ad Club Bombay declared the winners of Young Achievers Award at a glittering ceremony held in Mumbai.

The annual awards are adjudged to the young talents aged below 30 in the advertising and marketing industry.

Amit Sharma of Chrome Pictures won the best movie maker award whereas Red FM marketing head Anuj Singh won the business leader award.

Shirin Johari of O&M was declared the most creative person for her HSBC Brand campaign.

Other winners included, Hetal Ajmera and Simone Patrick from JWT India who won best art director and best copywriter awards for their SNC Jewels and DTC - Lead India Poised campaign respectively.

Reliance Communications' Shivani Suri Dhanda and HUL's Harman Dhillion were coveted with best brand maker award.

Monaz K Todiwala from Madison Media won the best digital person award for her work on Cadbury Dairy Milk. Lodestar Universal's Ritu Trivedi was declared the best media person for her campaign on Amul.

The Big FM Radio award was given to Shekhar Banerjee of Madion Communications for his campaign on Saffola.

Ad Club Mumbai president Bhaskar Das said, "Ad Club has instituted this award to honour today's young generation of professionals who are extremely enthusiastic and full of new innovations."

The awards were categorised in to creative and business which further had nine sub categories under each of them.

O&M India South Asia executive creative director Abhijit Awasthi and Reliance Communication branding head Sanjay Behl lead the jury for the creative and business segments.

Ad Club had roped in Big FM as the presenting sponsor for the Award. Other associate sponsors for the event were VCI Hospitality, Royal Palms Property, Sunny Foresight and Crompton Greaves.