Business memo 12/15/03

Advertising group issues call for award entries

The Tri-State Advertising and Marketing Professionals, a local entity of the American Advertising Federation, has issued its call for entries for the 2003 ADDY Awards Competition. The annual Tri-State ADDY Awards Competition recognizes exceptional advertising created in the tri-state area in all media, including print, broadcast, out-of-home and public service advertising.

All entries must be received by 4 p.m. Jan. 14 at the Cape Girardeau Convention and Visitors Bureau, 100 Broadway. Entry fees are $35 for members of the Tri-State Advertising and Marketing Professionals and $45 for non-members.

To be eligible for consideration of an ADDY, all work must have been published or aired in 2003.

The winners will be announced and honored during a dinner gala Feb. 13 at the Drury Lodge in Cape Girardeau. For more information, contact the Tri-State Advertising and Marketing Professionals president Chuck Moffitt at (573) 331-2155 or e-mail at cmoffitt@ kbsi.sbgnet.com.

-- From staff reports