MAUMEE, Ohio – Hart Associates, one of Northwest Ohio’s leading integrated marketing and communications firms, has been honored twice by the 8th Annual Service Industry Advertising Awards (SIAA).

Hart was honored with a Silver Award for the creation and implementation of the “Empty Seat” campaign for the Toledo Area Regional Transit Authority (TARTA). Paramount Health Care’s “Paramount Cards” campaign received a Merit Award. Both campaigns included TV, radio, digital, outdoor and print elements.

“We’re proud of our firm’s ability to deliver big agency creativity without big agency pretense,” said Mike Hart, Hart’s President. “These ads produced for TARTA and Paramount are a testament of that creative excellence, while still holding true to our Midwestern values.”

The SIAA awards were created in 2003 to recognize advertising excellence of the service industry. The recent competition included participation by more than 400 advertising agencies and institutions.