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Doc Johnson won a total of four awards at the 2017 XBIZ and XBIZ Exec Awards, including:</p>
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Pleasure Products Company of the Year – Doc Johnson<br />
Marketing Campaign of the Year – 40<sup>th</sup> Anniversary Campaign<br />
Progressive Leadership Award – Chad Braverman<br />
Marketing Executive of the Year – Erica Braverman</p>
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At the XBIZ Awards ceremony, which took place Thursday night at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles, the Doc Johnson sales and marketing team took the stage to accept the trophy for Pleasure Products Company of the Year, and the company was later given the award for Marketing Campaign of the Year for their 40th anniversary campaign, a multi-platform initiative that spanned all of Doc Johnson’s communications— including advertisements, PR, owned media, and a 40th anniversary event which took place in July 2016.</p>
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<img align="left" alt="Xbiz Awards 2017" src="http://www.docjohnson.com/djnews/xbizawards_011717a.jpg" style="padding:10px;" />Thursday night’s XBIZ Award wins came shortly on the heels of Wednesday night’s XBIZ Exec Awards, where Chad Braverman and Erica Braverman were recognized among fellow industry members for the Progressive Leadership Award and Marketing Executive of the Year Award, respectively.</p>
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“We are truly humbled by XBIZ’ recognition of our evolving brand, and these awards speak volumes to our team-based approach,” said Chad Braverman, Doc Johnson’s COO and Chief Creative Officer. “Our teams have pushed themselves and industry boundaries in order to achieve our goal of providing the very best products and delivering exceptional results for each campaign we execute. This recognition is thanks to their hard work and dedication.”</p>
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Doc Johnson’s VP of Sales and Marketing Scott Watkins added, “The XBIZ Awards play a vital role in recognizing the important work the pleasure products industry does— this is something that we are passionate about, so an opportunity to celebrate the people that are leading the way is fantastic. I, and the entire Doc Johnson team, would like to thank our distributors and retailers for their unwavering support over the years - without you none of this would be possible. We will continue to provide our partners and customers with close support and after-sales service, and look forward to many more years of strong partnership to come. We are also very thankful to XBIZ for recognizing us with these top honors, and we send our congratulations to all the nominees and winners.”</p>
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The XBIZ Awards honors the very best in the business of sex, recognizing outstanding achievements across every facet of the multibillion-dollar business, including movie production, pleasure products, technology and retail.</p>
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The XBIZ Exec Awards spotlight outstanding individuals who play an essential role in the success of prominent brands. The award categories cover a range of occupations that make up the organizational chart of industry enterprises, covering business development, marketing, management, and more.</p>
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<strong><em>About DOC JOHNSON:</em></strong><br />
The iconic American pleasure products brand established in 1976.<br />
Doc Johnson has developed and released some of the most groundbreaking products on the market, including the Rabbit and the Pocket Rocket— and the company continues to raise the bar with award-winning innovations like the TRYST<sup>TM</sup>; Multi Erogenous Silicone Massager and the OptiMALE<sup>TM</sup> Rechargeable Vibrating C-Ring. Today, not only does Doc Johnson manufacture over 75% of their products in America, but they also produce many of the highest-quality, most well-designed products on the market. While other companies continue to take their production overseas, Doc Johnson has only dug its roots deeper as an American manufacturer in California, and an innovative leader in the pleasure products industry.</p>
