Flooring America/Flooring Canada wins a Communicator Award in the website category for its newly designed website by The Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts. The newly designed site was recognized for its modern yet simple design, consumer usability, SEO optimization, quality of content and reviews and responsiveness across multiple devices. 

With over 6,000 entries from around the world, the 22^nd Communicator Awards is the largest and most competitive awards program honoring creative excellence for communication professionals.  

“It’s fantastic to have been honored with an Award of Distinction from the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts,” said Frank Chiera, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Advertising for Flooring America/Flooring Canada. “Our goal with the new site design was to address any growing needs that we might have as an organization while leveraging the most innovative design features to enhance the consumers experience when visiting the site, ultimately driving traffic to our retailers.” 

The Communicator Awards are judged and overseen by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA), a 600+ member organization of leading professionals from various disciplines of the visual arts dedicated to embracing progress and the evolving nature of traditional and interactive media.  Current AIVA membership represents a "Who's Who" of acclaimed media, advertising, and marketing firms including:  AirType Studio, Condè Nast, Disney, Keller Crescent, Lockheed Martin, Monster.com, MTV, rabble+rouser, Time Inc., Tribal DDB, Yahoo!, and many others.  See aiva.org for more information.

“The work entered in the 22^nd Annual Communicator Awards serves as a benchmark in gauging the innovative ideas and capabilities of communications and marketing professionals around the world. Each year, our entrants continue to amaze by reinventing the ways we communicate and market in an ever-changing industry,” noted Linda Day, executive director of the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts.  She added, “On behalf of the entire Academy, we want to congratulate this year’s Communicator Award Entrants and Winners for their passion and dedication.  We are honored to be given the opportunity to recognize such outstanding work.” 

About Flooring America/Flooring Canada

Flooring America is a division of CCA Global Partners the nation’s largest floor covering cooperative. With more than 550 independent, locally-owned flooring retailers, Flooring America’s member stores work hard every day to become the most recommended flooring stores in North America. Flooring America’s independent retailers strive to make customers deliriously happy by guiding, advising and finding the right floor to make homes beautiful. We are the flooring store where friends send friends for their new floors.

About The Communicator Awards:

The Communicator Awards is the leading international awards program honoring creative excellence for communication professionals. Founded by communication professionals over a decade ago, The Communicator Awards is an annual competition honoring the best in advertising, corporate communications, public relations and identity work for print, video, interactive and audio. This year’s Communicator Awards received thousands of entries from companies and agencies of all sizes, making it one of the largest awards of its kind in the world. Please visit www.communicatorawards.com for more information. 

The Communicator Awards is sanctioned and judged by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts, an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from a "Who's Who" of acclaimed media, advertising, and marketing firms. Please visit aiva.org for a full member list and more information.