Pardee Homes has earned 14 MAME (Major Achievement in Marketing Excellence) finalist honors, including Detached Community of the Year for Segovia at Ladera Ranch. The official awards competition of the Southern California Sales and Marketing Council (SMCSC), MAME annually draws more than 500 entries; winners will be announced April 1st at a gala staged at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim.

“Pardee Homes won the notice of our judges in an impressive range of category types,” said Peter Mayer, MAME judging chair. “This company demonstrates professional excellence in all aspects of quality marketing and merchandising, and we congratulate Pardee Homes on these finalist honors.”

Joyce Mason, Pardee Homes vice president of marketing, noted that the honors for Segovia reflect MAME judges’ consideration of overall marketing excellence. “Segovia is one of our most recent LIVINGSMART® communities, offering buyers exceptional energy efficiency and a broad array of additional sustainable features,” she said. “Our marketing program shows buyers that great style and energy savings can be part of one package, so we are very proud to be recognized for Segovia.”

In addition to its recognition for Detached Community of the Year for homes priced at $750,000 or more, Segovia was a finalist for architectural design for Plan One; for model complex landscaping and for model home interior design for Plan Two. Orange County neighborhoods by Pardee Homes that also won finalist notice included Arezzo at Turtle Ridge in Irvine, for model complex landscaping; Foxfield in Yorba Linda for model home interior design for Plan One and Encantada at Ladera Ranch for signage.

Pardee Homes’ San Diego projects honored in this year’s MAME competition included Portico Plan Four, noted for model home interior design and for architectural design. Architectural winners from San Diego also included Arabella Plan Two and Santa Rosa Plan One. Esmeralda was noted for its model complex landscape design.

Edgewater in Pardee Homes’ Inland Empire market is a finalist in model home interior design. Rounding out the company’s honors is a finalist nod for Website design.

“We are delighted,” said Mason. “These MAME honors reflect our commitment to creating quality in all areas of homebuilding, and we sincerely appreciate being recognized for our work.”

Now celebrating its 31st year, the MAME Awards draw entries from Ventura, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside, Orange, and San Diego counties. Encompassing all facets of new-home marketing and merchandising, the competition covers product design, model complex landscaping, interior merchandising, sales office design, logo design, graphics, brochures, signage, advertisements, advertising campaigns, special promotions, and website presentations. Judges represent a cross-section of professional disciplines in the homebuilding industry, and come from throughout the United States.

Established in 1921, Pardee Homes is noted for superior master-planning concepts, quality homes, responsive customer service and dedication to the educational and civic goals of the communities in which it builds. Among the company’s multiple honors are those bestowed by national, regional and state organizations dealing with green and sustainable building practices, design and marketing excellence, business performance and corporate citizenship.

Pardee Homes maintains regional operations in Corona, Irvine, Sacramento, San Diego, Valencia and Las Vegas. New home choices address a spectrum of households. Pardee Homes places particular emphasis on the concept of creating homes ‘for the way you want to live,” in master-planned settings that also include schools, parks and preserved open space.

Pardee Homes and its personnel devote time and resources to education and to many youth and community service organizations. Special emphasis is on housing-related initiatives, such as HomeAid America, a national, non-profit organization devoted to quality housing for the temporarily homeless. Pardee Homes has earned BUILDER magazine’s designation of “America’s Best Builder,” the EPA’s Sustained Excellence honor and Reed’s Business Publications list of “101 Best Companies to Work For.”