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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.
Avoq received a National Gold ADDY in Branded Content & Entertainment for Online/Interactive, at the American Advertising Federation’s 2026 ADMERICA Conference on May 29... LaVoie Strategic Communications Group takes home Bronze Bell Ringer Award in the Government/Public Affairs category from the Publicity Club of New England... Crosby Marketing Communications presents its 2026 Crosby Marketing & Media Studies Scholarship to Deniela Penate, who recently graduated from Old Mill High School in Millersville, MD... BoardroomPR is named to the South Florida Business Journal’s list of the Top 25 Largest Women-Owned Businesses in South Florida.
Washington Women in Public Relations announces finalists for its 16th Annual Emerging Leaders Awards... The Hispanic Public Relations Association opens submissions for its 2026 HPRA National ¡BRAVO! Awards... Clearpoint Agency, which has offices in San Diego and Boston, received gold and bronze honors in the PR category at the American Marketing Association San Diego’s 2026 Sandie Awards on May 21. 
Crosby Marketing Communications won eight Telly Awards, which were announced on May 19. The awards, which cover video and television across all screens, were chosen from nearly 14,000 entries submitted by creators, brands and production companies spanning 55 countries... French/West/Vaughan was recognized at the Telly Awards for its work on Pendleton Whisky’s “Palette of the West” video series... Yulu Public Relations has received a Gold Davos Communications Award from the World Communications Forum Association for its collaboration with Audible on the Audible Indigenous Writers’ Circle.
The Public Relations Society of America awards the 2026 Best of Silver Anvils Award to the American Academy of Pediatrics for its Vaccine Confidence campaign... Laughlin Constable Public Relations was recognized as a Silver Anvil Award Finalist by PRSA for its campaign for the grand opening of PENN Entertainment and Hollywood Casino’s $185 million entertainment destination in Joliet, IL... BridgeView Marketing is cited by the Hermes Creative Awards and the Communicator Awards.
New York Women in Communications will hold the 56th annual Matrix Awards ceremony on May 19 at the Ziegfeld Ballroom in New York City.
