Stories by PRNEWS

Winner: General Electric – Jeff Immelt’s Renewing American Leadership Speech at West Point On Dec. 9, 2009, GE CEO Jeff Immelt delivered a speech to graduating cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. The speech focused… Continued

Winner: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company/Coyne Public Relations – Goodyear ‘Get There’ Awards Goodyear had long provided the aerial footage of the Olympics for North American viewers. For the 2010 Vancouver games, Goodyear looked to… Continued

Winner: Association of American Railroads/Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide – Freight Rail Works Dirty. Inefficient. Old. These were some of the words congressional influencers were using to describe freight rail before Ogilvy PR and AAR launched an… Continued

Winner: Kimberly Clark/Marina Maher Communications Inc. – Poise and Whoopi Goldberg Destigmatize Taboo Health Condition Marina Maher was charged to engage the public in a highly private issue—to improve general awareness of Poise, a product specifically… Continued

Winner: DePaul University – DePaul University’s Campaign to Restore Funding for the State of Illinois’ Monetary Award Program Facing a financial deficit, the Illinois General Assembly planned to cut funding to the state’s Monetary Award Program… Continued

Winner: Xplor Riviera Maya – PR Launch Campaign for New Park Xplor How do you promote the launch of an eco-theme park in the middle of a worldwide financial crisis and immediately after a local sanitation… Continued

Winner: The Marcus Group Inc. – Restoring Gilda’s Club NNJ Campaign Created in memory of the late comedian Gilda Radner, cancer support organization Gilda’s Club of Northern New Jersey was on the verge closing its doors… Continued

Winner: Allrecipes.com – 2009 Thanksgiving Webcast To position itself as the online go-to Thanksgiving resource, Allrecipes.com invited home cooks into its kitchen the day before Thanksgiving for a live webcast to view staff preparing its budget… Continued

Winner: Berman & Company – MADD about the Beer Summit In response to a debate over a racially charged incident in Massachusetts between a Harvard University professor and a Cambridge police officer, President Obama invited both… Continued

Winner: Marketing 24/7 Inc. – “Business Makeover Birmingham” Ruwena Healy, president of Marketing 24/7, joined with Dent, Baker & Co. and Corsini Consulting Group to launch a business makeover contest in 2009 that would provide $30,000… Continued