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World's Top Marketing, Communications and
Media Professionals
to be Honored at a Gala Awards Ceremony in
San Francisco
Business/Technology Editors
WOODSIDE, Calif. - World's top marketing, communications
and media professionals will be honored at a gala award ceremony on Friday,
April 22, at the Pan Pacific Hotel in San Francisco. Honorees won in one or
more categories of The Dalton Pen
Communications Awards program or
won a nomination for an Impacting Our
World award which is part of the Dalton Pen Program. Who's who
winning the latter award include Renay San Miguel of CNN; Warren Buffett of
Berkshire Hathaway; Nora McAniff, Executive Vice President, TIME, Inc.; and,
Ruth Ann Harnisch, Philanthropist of the Harnisch Family Foundation.
Top 2005 winning entries in the Dalton Pen program
were submitted from TIME, Inc.,
New York Stock Exchange magazine, ESPN, CBS Television, PARADE magazine,
Nightly Business Report, The Weather Channel, PGA Tour TV, Telemundo / NBC,
Ernst & Young, Reebok, The GAP, T. Rowe Price, Fidelity Investments,
Toyota, Harrah’s, Towers-Perrin, Mercedes Benz, Nextel, Aetna, Power &
Yacht magazine, Pepperidge Farm, Pfizer, the Music Center of Los Angeles
County and other Fortune 500 companies, broadcast networks and stations, media,
advertising, marketing and public relations agencies.
This year's judging panel
comes with extensive expertise in 44 communications specialties. Some are
high-level communicators and executives with backgrounds from well-respected
companies such as Walt Disney Co., Canon, WebEx, Porter-Novelli, Hewlett
Packard, eBay, Agilent Technologies, Sun Microsystems, and SwanLabs. Others are
agency principals with Fortune 500 clients including Coca-Cola, Charles Schwab
& Co, Proctor & Gamble, and the Olympics. Judges apply to be on the
panel and come from industries including hi-tech, Hollywood, corporate,
finance, television/radio and more. They reside in mostly San Francisco, Los
Angeles, Boston, San Jose and South America.
The 27-member judging
committee evaluated hundreds of international entries to recognize outstanding
projects in the communications field. "This year the competition was
especially intense making winning endeavors all the more meaningful," says
Linda Warwick, president of Warwick Publishing, CA who has been organizing The
Dalton Pen international competition since 1993. "Discovering the
creativity and communications innovations of the top entries makes judging
entries enjoyable each year," said senior judge Lucille Friedland, M.S.,
principal of Friedland Marketing & Communications.
For a complete list of all
2005 Dalton Pen Awards winners please visit the following website link:
About
Dalton Pen Awards:
The Dalton Pen Communications
Awards program
is presented by Warwick Publishing of Woodside, California. Launched in 1993 by
Warwick Publishing, The Dalton Pen Communications Awards program is a
prestigious, international evaluation forum designed to recognize outstanding projects
in the communications field. For further information about the Dalton Pen
Awards please visit: http://www.daltonpen.com
Categories in the
regular program include: Broadcast Journalism, Marketing, Advertising, PR, Web
programs, Graphic Design, Publications, Multi-Media, Annual Reports, Writing,
etc. For each category, one Award of Excellence and up to two Awards of Merit
may be granted for projects with exceptional displays of original thinking and
professionalism. Also granted are Awards of Honor.
About
Warwick Publishing:
Established in 1981, Warwick Publishing began as a
corporate communications firm serving Silicon Valley corporations, including
the task of creating intra-corporate communications competitions for
Hewlett-Packard in 1988. In 1993, Warwick Publishing introduced its own
external, then nationwide Dalton Pen competition, and soon the
competition grew worldwide drawing entrants from India, Slovenia, Croatia,
Belguim, France, England, Mexico, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa,
Finland, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong, and Japan, to name a few! Entries come from
large enterprises to agencies, banks, utilities, universities, consultants, and
more.
Warwick Publishing and its president and CEO, Linda
Warwick, have gained international attention for several marketing projects
including billboard hit, multi-platinum selling children's videos, and for
promotions campaigns for clients including award-winning television
commercials. Linda Warwick has appeared on talk shows including OPRAH, LEEZA,
docunews program DATELINE NBC and international programs such as the BBC's Big
Breakfast Club, and in magazines including PEOPLE, Ladies' Home Journal and
Elle, and in newspapers and on radio. She has a B.A. in anthropology from
University of California at Berkeley, MBA studies from San Francisco State
University, and is a member of Mensa. She is also a volunteer mentor in the
fields of business building and real estate investing.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Christine Pollio, Amanda Lowe, Linda Warwick, Angela
Rosario
daltonpen@sbcglobal.net,
650-365-4571 - www.daltonpen.com