The winners of the 2003 Sappi Printer of the Year Awards were announced at a glittering gala function at the Sandton Convention Centre on Wednesday evening – attended by over 1000 representatives from the top advertising agencies and printing houses in the country.

The success of advertising agency AdMakers International continued in the brochure category of the awards with AdMakers' new brochure for Oubaai Village winning not only the Silver, but also the Gold awards. Another entry by AdMakers took the bronze award, basically meaning that AdMakers took every single prize in the top category of the awards. All the most prestigious printing work produced in South Africa every year gets entered into the Sappi awards.
AdMakers has now won the award for the best brochure two years running, with the original brochure for Oubaai Golf Estate also receiving top honours in 2002. Every year the Sappi Awards judge entries in terms of the degree of difficulty in the execution of the design, technical excellence, overall impact (first impressions etc) and finishing quality.
Considering the thousands of entries from the top advertising agencies, design houses and printing houses throughout South Africa, the world-class excellence provided to clients by the AdMakers team has once again been recognized.
"I would like to thank our clients, our suppliers and the magnificent AdMakers team. Without great clients you cannot do great work. Without great suppliers your best efforts are futile. Without a great team you are simply dead in the water. At AdMakers we are blessed in abundance with all three", says Duan Coetzee, CEO of AdMakers.