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Boomtown has been honoured with a number of awards in recent years in recognition of the quality of advertising material produced by the agency. These include but are not limited to the following:

• Boomtown has, since 2006,been rated by AdReview as one of the top 25 advertising agencies in South Africa. In 2010, we were rated as the 12th best Cape agency and were the only Port Elizabeth based agency in the top 20.
• In 2007, Ruan Coetzee, a copywriter at Boomtown was awarded with a Silver Loerie for creative excellence.
• Boomtown has to date held its Service Excellence accreditation since 2006 and was also the first agency to achieve this accreditation.
• The PMR Africa Eastern Cape Leaders and Achievers awards have for thefifth consecutive year recognised the agency’s excellent standard of material produced. The agency has won Diamond, Gold and Silver PMR awards for being the leading advertising agency.
• The NMMU won 5 Marketing, Advancement and Communications in Education (MACE) excellence awards in 2009. Their awards included best annual report and best external publication. They received runner up awards for the NMMU postgraduate guide, the Open Day “wings” campaign and the “Speak up, Speak out” campaign, all designed by Boomtown.
• Tim Jones, a Boomtown Designer and recent NMMU Graphic Design graduate, under the creative direction of Inge Economou from the NMMU Graphic Design Department together with Ruan Coetzee, Boomtown Copy Writer, won the prestigious Eagle Print Award for creating a Spray and Cook campaign that illustrates the non-stick ability of the product for the client Tiger Brands.