Belgium’s leading coffee brand Douwe Egberts has won a Golden Effie Award with its ‘breakfast’ campaign, created by Duval Guillaume. The campaign succeeded in raising sales volume and market share, in reaching unseen likeability scores and in attracting new young consumers for the category.

Breakfast and morning use are key moments for coffee use. But the share of coffee in the morning had been declining for years. With the so called ‘Foccee’ campaign (dyslectic version of ‘coffee’), Douwe Egberts managed to turn this trend around. Each of the campaign waves had a significant effect both on sales (average +12%) and on share of stomach.

This year, Douwe Egberts has already been awarded at the CCB, and has been elected as Advertiser of the Year. The campaign has also been listed as Most Likeable campaign by both flemish as french speaking radio audiences.

Good news from The One Show in New York: Duval Guillaume Brussels wins a golden pencil for the campaign “A blind call” for the League of the blind. As from today, we’ll be writing with a golden pencil.

The One Show is one of the highest appreciated award concours on the planet. For this year’s 2008 edition there were 25.000 submissions worldwide. As far as we can recall, this is the first gold pencil ever for a Belgian-based advertising agency. For the record: our memory only goes back to halfway the nineties.

Eurobest Awards announced it’s winners. The campaign “A Blind Call” by the “League of the blind foundation” has won gold in the Eurobest category “Integrated Campaigns”. This campaign was created by Duval Guillaume.

In the video below Pablo Alzugaray, jury president of Eurobest, explains why the Eurobest jury thinks the “A Blind Call” campaign is so special.

Quite some other campaigns Duval Guillaume has created for it’s clients during te past year have won a silver or bronze Eurobest Award. An overview:

Eurobest integrated campaigns

• Gold: “A Blind Call”, League of the blind foundation

Eurobest TV/Cinema

• Silver: “Never trust a man”, Mercator Insurance Pension Plans
• Bronze: “Lotto”, Belgacom Digital TV

Eurobest print

• Bronze: “Airtbag” Topps Bazooka Chewing Gum

Eurobest outdoor

• Bronze: “Bracelets”, Médecins Sans Frontières International Humanitarian Aid Organization

Eurobest Direct & sales promotion

• Bronze: “Burglar” Mercator Home Select Insurance

You can find an overview of the awards the clients of Duval Guillaume have won with their campaigns on the Eurobest website or download an overview of all winners in PDF.

Earlier we mentioned several campaigns from Duval Guillaume were nominated for the London International Awards. Today we received a pleasant phone call from London.

The Pigs in Pain campaign for Gaia won Gold in the category ‘Integrated Media’. The jury unanimously agreed the idea, the use of media and the results were unpreceded.

The Dear Hunter spot for Pure FM has been rewarded with Silver in the category ‘Television & Cinema’. Have a look at the video below.