PREGEL AMERICA HONORED BY THE 2010 22ND ANNUAL APEX AWARDS FOR PUBLICATION EXCELLENCE
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
CONCORD, N.C. (July 7, 2010) - Specialty dessert ingredient company PreGel AMERICA announced today that they received an Award of Excellence from the 2010 22nd Annual APEX Awards for Publication Excellence. PreGel's website, www.pregelamerica.com, received the Silver Apex Award in the One to Two Person-Produced Web & Intranet Sites category. With more than 3,700 entries, competition was exceptionally intense, 1,132 Awards of Excellence recognized exceptional entries in 127 subcategories.
In 2008, PreGel AMERICA launched its corporate website, www.pregelamerica.com, in collaboration with WhiteSpace Creative, a design firm in Akron, Ohio. PreGel AMERICA's website offers easy access to the company's product information and history. The website is frequently updated and the team is always looking for new ways to increase the end user's experience. The site was recently updated with the addition of an online recipe database, PreGel AMERICA is one of the first in the specialty desserts industry to provide a complete online database of recipes for their foodservice clients. While consumer recipe sites are abundant, b2b sites that cater specifically to the trades are still relatively uncommon.
"Our Marketing Assistant Lisa Weyhrich and I have put a lot of time and effort into continually developing the PreGel's website and are very humbled by this recognition from Apex." said Jillian Hillard, marketing manager for PreGel AMERICA.
APEX Awards are based on excellence in graphic design, editorial content and the ability to achieve overall communication excellence. APEX Grand Awards honor the outstanding works in each main category, while APEX Awards of Excellence recognize exceptional entries in each of the individual categories.
For more information about The APEX Awards and a complete listing of winners, click here.
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About PreGel AMERICA
PreGel AMERICA is the U.S. subsidiary of PreGel, a global ingredient company headquartered in Reggio Emilia, Italy. PreGel develops, manufactures and distributes natural ingredients, toppings and fillings of the highest quality from Italy, including flavors, powders and pastes used in gelato, frozen yogurt, pastry and other specialty desserts. Based in North Carolina since 2002, PreGel directly sells to restaurants, gelato cafes, coffee shops, frozen yogurt shops, bakeries, pizzerias, hotels, resorts, grocery stores and universities, as well as a few distributors in the United States. PreGel believes in blending Your Passion with Our Ingredients. For more information, visit www.pregelamerica.com.
About WhiteSpace Creative
WhiteSpace Creative focuses on delivering fresh solutions to today's marketing challenges. Averaging a 25% annual growth over the past 10 years, WhiteSpace has been named to the 2009 Inner City 100, an annual list that ranks the fastest-growing inner city businesses nationwide. It is also an ongoing recipient of Weatherhead 100, Leading EDGE, international Summit Creative and local and regional ADDY awards. Established in 1994, WhiteSpace has offices in Akron, Ohio and Charlotte, North Carolina. www.whitespace-creative.com
