The Stephenz Group Wins Two Bronze Addy Awards for NuGEN® Brand Program

San Jose, CA, April 15, 2010
The Stephenz Group (TSG), Silicon Valley's largest independent advertising agency, today announced it has received two bronze awards from the annual American Advertising Federation (AAF) Silicon Valley chapter ADDY® competition. The 2009 winning entries from The Stephenz Group were the NuGEN Technologies, Inc. product packaging and product print ad campaign. The product packaging involved re-designing multiple product packages across several product lines, while the print ad campaign promoted the launch of a new product line. The creative team members included Stephanie Paulson, executive creative director and Phillip Kim, creative director. The AAF Silicon Valley Awards competition showcases the very best advertising, design and interactive in Silicon Valley.
"The Stephenz Group created a refreshed dynamic brand and image for NuGEN,"said Yan Zhang, Vice President Marketing, NuGEN Technologies, Inc. "It has helped us to further differentiate our company in a highly competitive market."
"The Stephenz Group is honored to be recognized among the best and brightest in the advertising community of Silicon Valley," said Barbara Zenz, president and CEO, The Stephenz Group. "We look forward to another exciting year of working with our clients to build effective brand and integrated marketing communications programs."
About NuGEN, Inc.
NuGEN Technologies Inc. (www.nugeninc.com), is a San Carlos, Calif., company creating sensitive, rapid, high-throughput amplification and sample preparation systems to enable the comprehensive analysis and discovery of biological mechanisms, cellular responses, and disease pathologies.

About the ADDYs: The World's Largest Advertising Competition

With over 60,000 entries annually, the ADDY® Awards are the world's largest and arguably toughest advertising competition. The ADDY® Awards represent the true spirit of creative excellence by recognizing all forms of advertising from media of all types, creative by all sizes and entrants of all levels from anywhere in the world. The American Advertising Federation, a not-for-profit industry association conducts the ADDY® Awards through its 200 member advertising clubs and 15 districts. It is the only creative awards program administered by the advertising industry for the industry. For more information, visit www.aafsv.org

About The Stephenz Group

The Stephenz Group is the largest independently owned advertising agency in Northern California. Based in San Jose, The Stephenz Group provides full service integrated marketing communications to consumer technology and Bio/Pharma clients, such as AMD, Epson, Nanogen, HP and Samsung. The Stephenz Group currently ranks as the number one advertising agency in Silicon Valley by the San Jose Business Journal. The Agency has received hundreds of national, regional, and local creative awards, and is ranked as one of the Top 100 B2B agencies in the United States by B2B Marketing Magazine, Top 25 High-Tech Agencies in the United States by AdWeek, and Top 200 Agencies in the United States by AdAge.