Hakuhodo Tokyo takes home Asia’s only Gold in PR Lions for “Rice Code” for Inakadate Village

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Rice Code.jpgHakuhodo Tokyo has won Asia’s only Gold Lion in the Cannes Lions PR category for their “Rice-Code” campaign for Inakadate Village. The campaign also picked up a Silver Lion.

Two other Hakuhodo sister agenbcies also scored Silver Lions – Hakuhodo Kettle Tokyo for Yahoo Japan “Hands on Search” and TBWA\Hakuhodo Tokyo for Cogoo – Clean City Organisation “Saddle Blossom”.

Asia’s only other Silver Lion went to Ogilvy & Mather Mumbai for Google India’s “Reunion”. The campaign also won a Bronze for O&M and they also won a Bronze Lion for The Akanksha Foundation “Message Barter”.

Havas Worldwide Gurgaon won Bronze for Child Survival India “No Child Brides” and Ogilvy & Mather Thailand won Bronze for Truemove H “Giving”.

The Creative Artists Agency, Los Angeles and Edelman New York jointly collected the trophy for their campaign for Chipotle Mexican Grill, “The Scarecrow”. With a dramatic 43% increase in entries compared to 2013 and 37% of entries entered by a PR agency, 1850 were this year received into PR from which 181 were shortlisted and from this 13 received gold trophies, 24 were awarded silver and 33 took bronze.

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