Woodinville, WA – October 13, 2011 — The new Bensussen Deutsch & Associates, Inc. corporate website earned top honors in the 2011 W³ Awards competition, which drew more than 3,000 entries from the best interactive agencies worldwide. Launched in May, www.bdainc.com was created entirely by the BDA award-winning design team.

BDAinc.com collected a prestigious Best in Show award for Copy/Writing. Only the top 1 percent of all work entered receives Best in Show honors. BDAinc.com also won Gold in the Home Page Design category and Silver in Overall Website Design.

“We’re very proud of the innovative design work we produce in-house,” said Jay Deutsch, BDA co-founder and CEO. “We approached the redesign of BDAinc.com as an opportunity to tell our story in an exciting new way. BDA is evolving the branded merchandise industry by offering a best of breed agency solution and our website clearly communicates this message through powerful copywriting, compelling photography and interactive design features.”

The W³ Awards honors creative excellence on the web, and recognizes the creative and marketing professionals behind award-winning sites, marketing programs, and video work created for the web.

The W³ is sanctioned and judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts, an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from a "Who's Who" of acclaimed media, interactive, advertising, and marketing firms. IAVA members include executives from such organizations as Alloy, Brandweek, Coach, Disney, The Ellen Degeneres Show, Estee Lauder, Fry Hammond Barr, HBO, Monster.com, MTV, Polo Ralph Lauren, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Victoria’s Secret, Wired, and Yahoo!.

“This year’s W3 Winners demonstrate the out-of-the box thinking and creative execution that exemplifies what the web is all about,” said Linda Day, the Executive Director of the IAVA. "On behalf of the entire Academy, congratulations to this year’s W³ award entrants and winners for their dedication to pushing the limits and finding new ways to raise the bar in web creativity."

A gallery of this year’s W³ winners is available at http://www.w3award.com/winners.

ABOUT BDA
Bensussen Deutsch & Associates, Inc. (BDA), the nation's premier Merchandise Agency™, provides marketing services and customized branded merchandise to Fortune 500 enterprises, major sports leagues and global entertainment holding companies. Clients come to BDA to extend their reach through custom branded-merchandise campaigns, integrated e-commerce marketing, and sports and entertainment sponsorship activation. Global brands such as Bank of America, Coca-Cola, Dell, ExxonMobil, FedEx, Ford Motor Company, GEICO and Major League Baseball are but a few of the household names that rely on BDA to bring their marketing campaigns to life through merchandise. BDA attained the coveted Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) certification in 2008 highlighting the company’s advanced quality assurance practices for importing products from overseas. For more information on the power of merchandise, visit www.bdainc.com.

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