Mars Incorporated, one of the world’s leading food manufacturers, recently commissioned a new custom corporate award design from Bennett Awards. Mars wanted to create new custom trophies for their Marketing Heroes program. The Marketing Heroes awards are recognition awards given each year to company associates in order to recognize their outstanding achievements in marketing. This award program gives Mars associates the opportunity to share success stories and best practices across the entire Mars marketing community.

The Mars Marketing Heroes awards are given to associates across a number of different award categories, including Best Campaign, Best Communication, Best Media Plan, Best Innovation/Renovation, etc. These corporate recognition awards are presented to recipients one per year. Awards are presented to associates in each of Mars’ regions, as well at the global level.

Mars commissioned Bennett Awards to create custom trophies for these achievement awards. These custom trophies feature a clean, impressionistic figure holding up the Mars’ “M” from Mars’ logotype. These trophies are cast in pewter, and feature two alternative finishes, depending on the award: a) a gold-plated finish for Global awards; and b) a silver-plated finish for Regional awards.

These sculpture awards are mounted on black marble bases that feature personalized engraving of the award year, award category, level of presentation (global or regional), and the Mars logo. Gold-plated awards feature gold-fill engraving, and silver-plated awards feature silver-fill engraving.

Based in McLean, Virginia, Mars has net sales of more than $30 billion, six business segments including Petcare, Chocolate, Wrigley, Food, Drinks, Symbioscience, and approximately 70,000 Associates worldwide that are putting its Principles into action to make a difference for people and the planet through its performance.