Arekibo Scoops Second Award in Four Weeks

DUBLIN, November 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

Renowned Irish digital strategy consultancy Arekibo has won the eir Spider digital agency of the year for 2015. This follows on from their recent award for Best in Universal Design at the 2015 Net Visionary awards for their work with Electric Ireland (Ireland's largest and most trusted energy supplier).

Established in 1996, the eir Spiders are now in their 20th year, making them the longest standing and most prestigious internet awards in Ireland.

The Net Visionary Best in Universal Design Award was introduced to recognise and celebrate the best of Irish design 2015; this new award was supported and presented by the Centre of Excellence for Universal Design. 

Eilish Logan from Electric Ireland was very happy the new site was recognised. "Arekibo shared our objective to ensure excellent site performance while delivering an engaging, easy-to-use site. Our new mobile responsive website will play a very important role in helping our customers to engage effortlessly with us in a way that suits them," she said.

Joan Mulvihill, CEO of the Irish Internet Association added, "2015 is the Year of Design and the IIA understand the important role of web development agencies in ensuring that websites meet the very highest standards of Universal Design, which is to say accessibility for all. Through their work on Electric Ireland's website, Arekibo were the standard bearers for design-thinking with the customer in mind. The very fact that Electric Ireland have the widest possible demographic of customers and that Arekibo developed their website to accommodate accessibility for that demographic, is a fantastic achievement and a very worthy winner."

Martin Casey, MD of Arekibo was also very pleased with the awards. "We are delighted to be recognised by the industry as the leading digital agency in the country and in particular for Electric Ireland as their vision and commitment to using digital to connect with their customers is outstanding," he noted.

Arekibo is a digital strategy consultancy based in Dublin, Ireland.

For more information 

Helen Nix
Head of Client Services
Arekibo
+353-1-905-20-40
helenn@arekibo.com