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Sharon Racz, Regina Marston, Ralph Richardson (left to right)

Riverside, Calif. – Maven Concepts took top honors for Web Multi-Media and the coveted Best of Show award at the regional 2009 ADDY® Awards ceremony held March 20 in Rancho Cucamonga, California.

Conducted annually by the American Advertising Federation, the local ADDY® Awards are the first of a three-tier, national competition. Concurrently, all across the country, local entrants vie for recognition as the very best in their markets. The Inland Empire (Riverside, San Bernardino and eastern Los Angeles counties in Southern California) ADDY® competition is a regional program. Gold Medal winners move on to compete in district, and national competitions.

“This is an outstanding achievement for Maven Concepts and we are very honored to have our hard work recognized by our peers,” said Ralph Richardson, principal and owner of Maven Concepts.

This recent win marks the fourth Gold ADDY®, eight total awards, and first Best of Show for Maven Concepts since bursting on the marketing advertising scene in 2005. Both the Gold ADDY® and Best of Show accolades were awarded for the Europa Vineyard Estates website. Europa Vineyard Estates is a high-end, vineyard estate community under development by the Rancon Group, based in Murrieta, California. Sharon Racz, associate vice president of marketing for the Rancon Group, also won a Gold Addy® in the category of Mixed / Multi-Media – Regional / National Campaign in conjunction with the Europa Vineyards Estates marketing program.

“It’s been a pleasure working with Ralph and his associates at Maven,” said Racz after the presentation. “They are a very talented group and they bring a lot of creativity and knowledge to the table. As a designer, I find that they are masters of integrating my concepts and ideas into an overall plan. We are pleased to have Maven Concepts as our website development partners.”

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Maven Concepts is a website design and marketing agency founded by Ralph Richardson, a native of Bermuda and resident of Riverside, California. The company provides multi-media marketing services for clients primarily in Bermuda and the Southern California area. For more information on Maven Concepts visit www.mavenconcepts.com.

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This story was also featured in the Royal Gazette and the Bermuda Sun.

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Murrieta—The Rancon Group won a coveted ADDY® Award for its Website at the Annual American Advertising Federation, Inland Empire, ADDY Awards Show, which was held this year in March at the Mission Inn. The Rancon Group site was created by Maven Concepts, a design firm specializing in electronic media. The site combines a variety of graphic elements with an easy-to-navigate informational library featuring service offerings, project portfolios, investment opportunities, company history, an event calendar, and more.

“We designed the site to accommodate a cross section of users,” says Sharon Racz, Vice President of Marketing. “The Rancon Group is a diverse company with many different kinds of offerings. Visitors to our site could be looking to invest in one of our partnerships, or buy one of our projects. Or, they may just be looking for more information about the company in general. We designed an easy-to-view site with a large cache of information.”

This year’s award ceremony was the largest in the AAF-Inland Empire (formerly Inland Empire Ad Club) history. There were a record 455 entries making it the largest ADDY Award Ceremony in all of Southern California. The ADDY Awards are the world’s largest creative awards program for the advertising industry. According to the AAFIE Website, The ADDY Awards represent the true spirit of creative excellence by recognizing all forms of advertising from media of all types, creative by all sizes and entrants of all levels from anywhere in the world. The American Advertising Federation, a not-for-profit industry association conducts the ADDY Awards through its 200 member advertising clubs and 15 districts.

Maven Concepts won several awards at the event in addition to the Bronze Medal for the Rancon Group Website. The company manages more than a half dozen Websites for the Rancon Group and Rancon-related companies. “Creating the template for the Rancon Group was a challenge because it is a multi-faceted organization with an assortment of offerings,” says Ralph Richardson, CEO of Maven Concepts.

“Our team worked diligently to create a platform that can be constantly updated either dynamically or by the client. In this case, they change or add something almost daily.”

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The Rancon Group is an integrated network of real estate-related companies and divisions formed to provide an array of services for buyers, sellers, developers, investors and owners of real property. Formed by Daniel Lee Stephenson, this dynamic organization is designed to leverage real estate opportunities in Southern California. The mission of the Rancon Group is to build relationships, build communities, and build legacies for generations to come.

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