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The Stevie Awards name Cathay Financial as Organization of the Year in their 2025 (22nd Annual) International Business Awards. Cathay Financial, a major financial holding company that includes Cathay United Bank and Cathay Securities Corporation, was awarded the honor based on its 56 award points, with nine Gold, four Silver, and 14 Bronze Stevie wins. Budapest, Hungary’s Lounge Group was named Most Honored Marketing Agency for the second consecutive year and Mexico City-based ZIMAT took home its first Most Honored Public Relations Agency prize. Most Honored Awards Agency, a new Grand Stevie, was presented to award writing specialist Annette Densham; Ivan Shvaichenko, CEO of cloud-gaming platform Boosteroid, was honored for the Highest-rated Nomination of the Year; and ExtendMax Vietnam Company Limited of Hanoi was named Highest-rated New Product or Service Nomination of the Year.
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Durée & Company was recognized as Fort Lauderdale Magazine’s Best PR Agency of 2025 in the gold category for the third consecutive year. More than 20,000 votes were cast to determine the winners of the “Best of Fort Lauderdale 2025” awards. The award reflects Durée & Company’s roots in the Fort Lauderdale community, its commitment to serving its clients and its exceptional work. Durée & Company’s practice areas include real estate, nonprofit, hospitality, business, lifestyle, health and wellness, legal, yacht and marine, as well as cannabis, psychedelics and other emerging industries. While the firm’s longtime headquarters is in Fort Lauderdale, it also maintains a satellite office in Aspen, Colorado.
French/West/Vaughan was honored as one of the Top Agencies of the Year in the Midsize Agencies category during Ragan’s 2025 PR Daily Awards and Top Agencies Awards program... Mason SVP, public relations Derek Beere is named the 2025 Practitioner of the Year by the PRSA’s Greater Connecticut Chapter... The Communications Group’s Women In Industry Podcast (WIN) won Best Business Podcast at the 2025 ARKAST Awards, the biggest podcasting event in Arkansas.
TrizCom Public Relations receives the 2025 PRSA Dallas Pegasus Award Best of Show and the Pegasus Award for Events and Observances for its work on the Peppa Pig Theme Park Dallas/Fort Worth Grand Opening... Violet PR is recognized with two Pyramid Awards from PRSA's New Jersey Chapter... LDWW founding partner and president Ken Luce is named PR Professional of the Year by PRSA/Dallas.
Ruder Finn CEO Kathy Bloomgarden is inducted into the International Communications Consultancy Organization’s Hall of Fame... The New York Financial Writers’ Association presents Bloomberg News editor-at-large Marty Schenker with its 49th Elliott V. Bell Award... 5WPR racks up five wins at the 2025 MarCom Awards.
The New York Financial Writers’ Association awards its 2025 Impact Award for Distinguished Financial Journalism to STAT News for "Denied by AI," a four-part series reported by Casey Ross and Bob Herman... (W)right On Communications president and founder Julie Wright receives the 2025 Andy Mace Award for Outstanding Contribution in Public Relations by the San Diego Press Club... Ghidotti, a Little Rock-based public relations and content marketing agency, earned five international honors at the 2025 Public Relations Global Network Best Practice Awards.
In accepting the top honor at PRSA's ICON conference in Washington, D.C. this week, HUNTER CEO Grace Leong stressed that the greatest threat to truth isn't the lies we can spot, but the comforting myths we choose to believe.
