The sixth annual Lockwood Security Advisor Award, open to all graduates of the Lockwood Security Products Retail Training Program (RTP), was announced recently – The winner, Bob Barrett, is an employee of Beck’s Home Hardware, Scottsdale, Tasmania.

This national awards program was conceived and established for Lockwood by Connecting Images in 1999 as an affordable and effective wide reaching promotional initiative to increase market awareness of the RTP. The Security Advisor Award acknowledges the commitment of frontline retail hardware staff who undertake Lockwood’s innovative training program to increase their level of professionalism, product knowledge and customer service excellence. It also strengthens Lockwood’s relations with its own customer base. This year’s announcement was rewarded with editorial coverage in local and metropolitan Tasmanian press, trade publications and statewide radio news coverage, as well as instore promotion and advertising arranged by Beck’s. Lockwood is all about quality.

Our relationship with Australia’s leading lock manufacturer is a special one. Lockwood was one of our very first clients when we opened our doors eight years ago.

Three weeks to photograph more than 300 candles and accessories, design, catalogue, code, proof and print a suite of seven advertising catalogues for Polyco Candle Company was a tad challenging.

We did it, and with such panache that we scored silver at the 12th Australian Catalogue Association Awards, coming second to a major advertising project for Nissan. Given Nissan’s massive advertising spend and our ‘tight’ deadline on this project, we consider our team to have excelled on this one. Special thanks to photographer Dan, designer Elizabeth, project director Merilyn and our brilliant printers, who never let us down.

For valued client Ken Burgin, a long-term commitment to ongoing marketing and PR has created his well-deserved positioning as the hottest consultant and leading authority in the hospitality industry.

Already a popular public speaker and presenter, Ken recently appeared on Channel 7’s latest reality lifestyle show, ‘My Restaurant Rules’. An industry ‘guru’, we negotiated for Ken to provide ‘in program’ and behind the scenes management training sessions for the five competing couples. This exposure has generated a great deal of media interest, important positioning advantage and massive increase to traffic visiting the Profitable Hospitality website.

Ken’s business, Profitable Hospitality, designs innovative business management software systems and manuals to increase efficiency and profitability for restaurants, clubs, cafes and hotels. His own ‘restaurant rules’ are found in the Profitable Hospitality manuals, CD rom’s, and on-line newsletter which provide the templates, systems, software packages and industry know-how which assists hospitality businesses achieve success in a highly unpredictable environment. We’re very satisfied with this profile building and priceless exposure.