I am not sure how to formulate correctly the phrase 'a winner that took the first place in the contest'. Could you propose any idiomatic phrases?
My try is below:
The corporation is a gold winner in the contest 'Brand – 2014'.
The corporation was awarded with a "golden" prize in the contest 'Brand -2014'.
The corporation is recognized [as] a gold winner in the contest 'Brand – 2014'.
If they are ok, I will be glad to learn about that.
The addition to the text
I have no idea whether or not the prize is made of gold. I even don't know how the prize looks like.
The second addition to the text:
In my language and culture, a person or an organization, that took the first place, is named figuratively a 'golden winner'. I am not sure how to convey this meaning in English without mentioning the prize. The prize should not be mentioned at all in the situation that I described.
Best Answer
Are you speaking generically and possibly metaphorically, or does the group that awards the prizes call this the "gold prize" or some such?
If the prize is actually called the "Gold Prize" or the "Golden Award" or whatever, then you should call it whatever the people who give out the prize call it. If the prize is called "the gold prize", don't you call it the "golden award". Don't make up your own name; use the official name. Anything else just gets confusing.
If the people giving out the prize don't call it the gold anything, and you are using the word "gold" in analogy to the Olympics and other competitions where first prize is called "the gold medal", then you can either use the full phrase, "The company took the gold medal in Brands 2014", or you can abbreviate it to just "the gold", as in, "The company took the gold in Brands 2014".
I would avoid straining the analogy beyond that. I wouldn't say someone "won the gold certificate" or "won a golden award" when the prize is neither called that nor is literally gold. At that point it just becomes confusing whether this is the name of the prize or an analogy to the Olympics.
The other alternative is to just say "won first place" or "came in first".