23 Named in the 2019 Public Relations and Marketing Excellence Awards

Philadelphia, PA—November 21, 2019—The Business Intelligence Group today announced the winners of the 2019 Public Relations and Marketing Excellence Awards which identified the leading agencies and corporate departments who delivered quantifiable business results for their respective clients.

“Public relations and marketing is playing a more crucial role as the volume of innovations, products and distribution points continues to accelerate,” said Maria Jimenez, Chief Nominations Officer of the Business Intelligence Group. “Our winners have clearly shown us and our judges that they have the unique ability to marry creativity with business value to create exceptional results. Congratulations to you all!”

The 2019 Public Relations and Marketing Excellence Award winners are:

Marketing Agency of the Year

• MediaCrossing - Medium-Sized Company
• Hawthorne - Large Company
• The Born Group - Enterprise 

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Marketing Department of the Year

• TBI Marketing - Large Company 
• Marlabs Inc - Enterprise  

Public Relations Agency of the Year

• Haymaker - Small Company
• BLASTmedia - Medium-Sized Company

Public Relations & Marketing Agency of the Year

• Imprenta Communications Group

Executive of the Year

• Jessica Hawthorne-Castro, CEO, Hawthorne
  Marketing Agency, Large Company
• Shyam Ananthnarayan, Chief Marketing Officer, Marlabs
  Marketing Department, Enterprise 
• Lingyan Gao, Chief Marketing Officer, AInnovation
  Public Relations & Marketing Department, Enterprise  
• Ernie Knewitz, Vice President, Global Media Relations, Johnson & Johnson
  Public Relations & Marketing Department, Enterprise

Campaign of the Year

• LOCALiQ (Part of USA TODAY NETWORK) - Marketing Agency, Enterprise 
• Vectra - Marketing Department, Large Company
• AXION - Marketing Department , Enterprise  
• Grey Matter Marketing - Healthcare Public Relations & Marketing Agency, Medium-Sized Company  
• Saatchi Art - Public Relations & Marketing Department, Medium-Sized Company  
• Maxim Integrated - Public Relations & Marketing Department, Enterprise
• UPRAISE Marketing + Public Relations - Public Relations Agency, Small Company  
• 10Fold Communications - Public Relations Agency, Medium-Sized Company - Tie
• Amendola Communications - Public Relations Agency, Medium-Sized Company - Tie 
• OpenX - Public Relations Department, Large Company 
• Raytheon - Public Relations Department, Enterprise  

The Business Intelligence Group judges also named the following organizations as finalists for their excellent work: AHIA Benefits, EvolveMKD, Kite Hill Public Relations and McCabe Message Partners.

About Business Intelligence Group www.bintelligence.com
The Business Intelligence Group was founded with the mission of recognizing true talent and superior performance in the business world. Unlike other industry award programs, these programs are judged by business executives having experience and knowledge. The organization's proprietary and unique scoring system selectively measures performance across multiple business domains and rewards those companies whose achievements stand above those of their peers.