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ICSC’s Latin American Shopping Center Awards Online

International Council of Shopping Centers chooses OMNI SG’s Online Awards Program, Again!

GAITHERSBURG, MD – April 1, 2008 – OMNI Solutions Group Inc. (www.omnisg.com) is proud to announce that the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) has signed an agreement to utilize the firm’s omniContests online awards program solution to manage their Latin American Shopping Center Awards.  The Latin American Shopping Center Awards will be the 7th awards program that ICSC has brought online with omniContests.

According to Jay Starr, Senior Staff Vice President, Chief Global Marketing Officer of ICSC, “Over the years we have had wonderful success in marketing our award programs.  A great reason for this success has been the ability of ICSC to bring these award programs online using the omniContests software program.  In fact, by bringing our award programs online we have been able to increase the overall participation in all categories by making it easier for contestants to apply.  Additionally, as a global association, with numerous members overseas using the web, is essential and the only way to go!”

Over the past 12 years, OMNI SG has established a reputation as the leading technology provider for the implementation of online competitions. omniContests provides the functionality and flexibility needed to accommodate the varied needs of organizations running award programs with fifty entries, to competitions with tens of thousands of entries submitted each year.

“We are so proud of ICSC.  They have been extremely successful with their award programs.” said OMNI SG Executive Vice President Pat Seery.  “The Latin American Shopping Center Awards is the seventh they have brought on-line with omniContests.  We are thrilled to have ICSC as a client.”

For years, ICSC has honored the shopping center industry’s most cutting-edge properties, innovative solutions and creative responses to market trends, as well as outstanding examples of retail store design. Now, ICSC is focusing that same competitive template on Latin America, site of many of the 21st century’s most dynamic retail trends.

ICSC’s Latin American Shopping Center Awards join many other organizations currently using omniContests including American Advertising Federation’s ADDY® awards, the NY American Marketing Association’s EFFIE Awards, the Direct Marketing Association’s ECHO Awards, and Costco Warehouse’s International Photo contest.

OMNI SG has taken the awards program and put together clear ways to view, enter, judge and award winners trough a web site. omniContests provides a web-based solution that lets entrants complete their entry form, pay their entry fees and upload their creative work digitally online. Clients then view, manage and support the status of entries in real time.

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About OMNI SG
OMNI Solutions Group provides e-commerce data-driven web solutions to customers in various industries. Associations, non-profits, government agencies, contractors, and corporations both nationally and internationally are now using OMNI SG developed web solutions. OMNI SG’s products include omniSAM (www.omnisam.com), omniContests (www.omnicontests.com), and omniGallery. The company also provides omniNET (network support service), as well as omniWEB (web hosting and maintenance), and customized database integration services. For additional information about OMNI SG, visit www.omnisg.com or call 1.800.386.1040.

About ICSC
Founded in 1957, the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) is the74,000 members in the U.S., Canada and more than 90 other countries include shopping center owners, developers, managers, marketing specialists, investors, lenders, retailers and other professionals as well as academics and public officials. As the global industry trade association, ICSC links with more than 25 national and regional shopping center councils throughout the world.