Specialty chemicals supplier Cognis has received the 2008 European Excellence Award in the ‘Evaluation’ category in recognition of the way it steers and evaluates its worldwide corporate communications.
European Excellence Awards were established in 2007 to provide recognition for the best communications and PR activities across Europe. The awards scheme is organised by European corporate communications and PR magazine Communication Director. In 2008, over 1,100 applications were received in the scheme’s 56 categories. In its internal ‘Innovation Award’ programme, Cognis has recognised the commercial success of its the polymeric emulsifiers Cosmedia SP and Cosmedia SPL, and of the anti-ageing peptide Dermican from Laboratoires Sérobiologiques, its active ingredients business. The development teams involved with the products have received the awards.
