Cruise operator Carnival Corp. and its PR agency, LDWWGroup, won the top Silver Anvil from PRSA on June 4 for work rebounding from a series of crises over two years.

anvilsCarnival, LDWWGroup accept the top Anvil.

Carnival and LDWW entered in the reputation/brand management category for businesses with sales over $10B, orchestrating a 2013-14 PR effort that brought the company back from an "onslaught of negativity," in the words of PRSA awards committee chair James Roop.

LDWW is the Dallas firm led by former Hill+Knowlton COO and Weber Shandwick president Ken Luce.

The "Best of" campaign emerged from 136 finalists as PRSA gave out its 2015 Anvils and Awards of Excellence at New York's AXA Equitable Center. (Full list of winners, PDF)

Weber Shandwick and the trio of MSLGroup, Leo Burnett Toronto and SMG were the top Anvil winners with four apiece. The MSLGroup team won honors for its #LikeAGirl campaign for P&G Always. Weber Shandwick earned plaudits for work on behalf of Anheuser-Busch, Ricoh Americans, American Academy of Periodontology and the Florida Hospital Assn.

Other multiple winners included Ketchum and FleishmanHillard (3 apiece), PadillaCRT, US Army Corp of Engineers, Allison+Partners, C+C and Edelman with two each.