IABC/OC Honors Top Business Communicators in Annual Helios Awards Competition

Business Wire, Feb 17, 2005

ORANGE, Calif. -- A total of 35 Helios Awards, including 18 top Awards of Excellence, were presented to business communicators from throughout Southern California in IABC/OC's annual awards competition. The ceremonies were held at the Disneyland Paradise Pier Hotel in Anaheim.

The Helios Awards competition honors communications professionals in the disciplines of public relations, corporate communications, marketing communications, investor relations, employee communications and public affairs. This year's Helios Awards competition was judged by IABC's Silicon Valley chapter.

Helios Award winners were:

AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE

Customer Relations
-- Patricia Minassian of The MERIT Companies for "Connecting with the
   Customer"

Media Relations
-- Ken Hagihara of Integrity PR for "Netgear Corporate Media Relations
   Program"
-- Theresa Dreike of GolinHarris for the Toshiba account and the
   "Introducing the World's Smallest Hard Disk Drive" campaign

Multi-audience Communications
-- Tacha Kasper of Star Real Estate for "The Best Traditions Start at
   Home" campaign

Marketing Communications
-- Theresa Dreike of GolinHarris for the Toshiba account and the
   "Toshiba 'Tech' the Halls campaign"
-- Pam Duffy-Little of Blue Communications for the "Piper Jaffray
   Marketing Materials"

Issues Management
-- Tacha Kasper of Star Real Estate for "Advantage One Escrow"

Employee/Member Communications
-- Tacha Kasper of Star Real Estate for "The GAP Program"

Four Color or More Magazines
-- Jobe Dubbs of Beckman Coulter for the "Diagnostics Today" magazine

Newsletters
-- Mark Maricich of Maricich Communications for "UCI Health"

Annual Reports
-- Judy Iannaccone of Rancho Santa Margarita Community College
   District for "A Report for the Community"

Special Publications
-- Christopher Lenz of Experian for "Year In Review, Year in Preview"

Publication Design
-- Mark Maricich of Maricich Communications for the "MemorialCare
   Quarterly Newsletter"

Special Project Design
-- Tacha Kasper of Star Real Estate for the "Race for the Cure" Ad
-- Mark Maricich of Maricich Communications for the "Abbott Staffing
   Corporate Brochure"

Writing
-- Adrienne Hedger of Hedger Communications for the "Beckman Coulter
   Clinical Connections"

Internet Web Sites
-- p11Creative for the "Austin Taylor" Web site

Electronic and Interactive Communication
-- Theresa Dreike of GolinHarris for the "Toshiba QOSMIO Internet
   Press Kit"

AWARDS OF MERIT

Media Relations
-- Trevor Bratton of ViewSonic for the "Refreshing the ViewSonic
   Review Program"

Multi-audience Communications
-- Patricia Minassian of The MERIT Companies for "Identity Design and
   Repackaging"

Employee/Member Communications
-- Paul Lewis of Boeing for "Line of Sight"
-- Pam Duffy-Little of Blue Communications for the "Piper Jaffray
   Conversion Campaign"

Four Color or More Magazines
-- Lee Healy of Lee Healy Marketing Communications for the "South
   Coast Plaza Taste Magazine"

Newsletters
-- Christopher Lenz of Experian for "Leadership Matters"

Annual Reports
-- Jessica Silver-Hill of WellPoint for "A Roadmap to Success"

Special Publications
-- Mark Maricich of Maricich Communications for MemorialCare "Senior
   Stride"

Writing
-- Pam Duffy-Little of Blue Communications for Womenswallstreet.com
   "Terror in the Skies, Again?"

Internet Web Sites
-- p11Creative for the Avalon Laboratories Web site

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Community Relations
-- Deb Zingals and Gail Feazell of The Orange County Register for
   "Help Me Grow"

Employee/Member Communications
-- Patricia Aguilar of Southern California Edison for "Open
   Enrollment for 2004"
-- Pam Duffy-Little of Blue Communications for the "MGM Benefits
   Brochure"

Four Color or More Magazines
-- Christopher Lenz of Experian for the "Experiences" magazine
-- Kerry Rivera of Toyota for the Toyota Financial Services "Pulse"
   magazine

Writing
-- Kerry Rivera of Toyota for "Vanilla Vision"

Internet Web Sites
-- Leigh White of p11Creative for the "Lyon Corporate Living" site

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