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BERLIN PRODUCTIONS HONORED WITH EIGHT “BIG W” AWARDS
Video, interactive and print projects garner
BP’s biggest number of ACW awards ever

WHITE PLAINS, NY – May 30, 2006 – Berlin Productions (BP) has been awarded eight “Big W” awards from the
Advertising Club of Westchester — the most awards that the company has won in a single Big W contest.

The awards and categories are as follows: • Magazine, Newspaper and Supplement Design: an award for the editorial redesign of the White
Plains Times, a newspaper formerly known as the White Plains Watch.

• Business-to-Consumer Web Sites: an award for the White Plains Times web site (www.wptimes.com).

• Business-to-Consumer Web Sites: an award for the Cheap Jack’s Vintage Clothing site (www.cheapjacks.com). Cheap Jack’s is a renowned vintage clothing store based in New York City and
frequented by celebrities, designers and fashion experts.

• E-Commerce Business-to-Consumer Web Sites: an award for the Ronald’s Record Club site (www.
ronaldsrecordclub.com). RRC is a membership-based service that delivers CDs catering to the tastes of music enthusiasts who do not enjoy current pop music and have trouble finding new artists they would enjoy.

• Corporate Identity: an award for a logo for Averting Maternal Death and Disability (AMDD), a global reproductive health advocacy program from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.

• Corporate Identity: an award for a logo for Outdoor Active Kids (OAKS), a fitness and enrichment program that teaches children the value of exercise, healthy competition and outdoor activity (www.outdooractivekids.com).

• Non-Broadcast Video: an award for a training video for Kraft Foods Global, in association with Braun, that shows professional demonstrators how to use and exhibit the Tassimo hot beverage system, which brews gourmet coffee, tea, hot chocolate, cappuccino and lattés.

• Multimedia: an award for The Adventures of Cora & Cory: The Germ-O-Tron, an an animated cartoonstyle
promotion for Nice-Pak Products that teaches school-age children the value of using hand-sanitizing
wipes to keep their hands and prevent the spread of germs.

The Big W awards recognize creative and technical achievement among advertising, public relations and marketing agencies, designers, copywriters, illustrators, photographers and others who develop advertising for businesses and organizations in the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

“It’s flattering to have won so many awards in a competition that’s filled with talent from across our area,” said Rick Berlin, BP’s president.
“I always like to think we raise our own bar every year, in terms of the quality of our work.
Winning this many awards in one contest demonstrates that our creative and talented team is really doing it.”
BP will accept its awards in person at ACW’s annual gala on June 7.

Screen shots and images of the winning projects are available on request

About Berlin Productions
Established in 1982, Berlin Productions is a visual communications firm that produces Web sites, video, CD-ROMs, DVDs, kiosks, animation, presentation, illustration and print design for corporate, educational, medical and government institutions. BP’s clients include Nextel, NASCAR, MCI, Pepsi, GHI, SoBe, Dun & Brad-street, Columbia University, Starbucks, Prudential, Sony, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

BERLIN PRODUCTIONS • 2 William Street, Suite 403 • White Plains, NY 10601 • 914-683-5759

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