GMP PR – PR Agency of the Year at 2011 Romanian PR Award

GMP PR was designated PR Agency of the Year at 2011 Romanian PR Award, during a Gala that took place Thursday night, at Parliament’s Palace. Also, Crina Coco Popescu (15 years old) received, extra-competition, “Communicator of the Year” award.

GMP PR is the Romanian PR agency that won this title twice. During last night’s Gala, GMP PR won 12 prizes (5 Golden Award and 7 Silver Award) and 3 Excellence Diplomas with campaigns for Apa Nova, Bancpost, UN Information Center in Romania, Coco Popescu, Sensiblu Foundation, Henkel, PepsiCo., Petrom and Ursus Breweries.

In the race for Agency of the Year title there were 17 PR agencies.

In 2006, when we were first designated the PR agency of the year, we were a 4 people department in GMP. The award motivated us to launch the agency.

The 2011 award finds us a mature agency, with 25 employees, with 7 expertise divisions, working for some of the most known brands and companies. The new recognition motivates us to continue to be one step ahead trends and not to modify our standards.

In the following years, we will bring new services and instruments on PR market and we will initiate benchmark campaigns for the region

Ioana Manoiu

Managing Partner GMP PR

GolinHarris Bucharest also had very good results at last night’s Gala, with 13 nominations that transformed into 12 trophies: 3 Golden Award for Excellence, 7 Silver Award for Excellence and 2 Excellence Diplomas. This is the 3rd year in a row when GolinHarris is among the most awarded Romanian PR agencies at the event.

For GoldenHarris, the Gala meant also records at national level: the communication campaign for Franklin Templeton Investments was entered in 6 categories, had 6 nominations and as many prizes, including in the Media Relations category.

If you are lucky to come every morning in a place you don’t consider a job and to work close to some people you do not consider colleagues and for some clients you don’t consider accounts, it means you are a lucky person. At GolinHarris, we are 17 lucky people. If we are also awarded for that, it means we are going in the right direction”

Hortensia Nastase

Managing Partner GolinHarris Bucuresti

The Practice also had a very good performance at the awards, with 11 nominations and 7 prizes: 4 Gold, 2 Silver and 1 Excellence Diploma. The Practice got the awards with 6 different campaigns for very different clients, proving creativity and results on a large pallet of PR services and competences in multiple industries.

We are very happy with last night’s result! We won in categories with intense competition, very representative for our sector, Public Relations: Crisis management, risks and opportunities communication, Corporate Communication, Internal Communication, communication for medical products, Events. We were double awarded Gold in PR for marketing, to both subcategories (…) A big congrats to my beautiful and smart girls team from The Practice! We thank to all our clients for their trust, opportunities and support! We dedicate those prizes to them

Gabriela Lungu

Managing Partner The Practice

Rogalski Grigoriu PR also went up on the podium last night, receiving 5 prizes: 1 Golden Award for Excellence in Media Relations for Victoria 20.20 (Siemens Romania) and 4 Silver Award for Excellence in PR pentru Marketing – Existent products and services for Tuborg Party Manager (United Romania Breweries Bereprod), Public sector communication for Victoria 20.20, NGOs. Civil Society for Good Mothers, healthy children (World Vision Romania) and in Medical products communication for “Smoking is a disease”.

We had 5 campaigns nominated 9 times and we left home with 5 awards, among which 1 Gold for Media Relations. We won with ideas we believed in, along with the clients we work for 12 ani (Tuborg), but also with clients that joined us this year (Siemens, World Vision), and we thank them for being close to us. We have big ambitions for the future! Congratulations to the Agency of the Year, to all participants and, not the last, to the organizers, for the way they developed the competition

Alina Damaschin

CEO Rogalski Grigoriu PR

Among the winners there was also GfK Romania, with its “ReThink. ReInvent. ReBuild” campaign and its internal communication campaign “GfK Extra Job”, that got a Silver Award for Excellence.

We are happy to show we are good not only in market research, but also in communication. The award represents the acknowledgment of GfK’s communication team experience and creativity. In the same time, GfK Romania’s presence on PR Awards podium is a reverence made to Romanian marketing industry, that understood and embraced our mission, to invest in knowledge for the benefit of our clients and of the public

Andi Dumitrescu

General Manager GfK Romania

During the Gala, there were awarded 16 Golds, 28 Silvers and 10 Excellence Diplomas, along with 2 special prizes for the 24 categories of the competition. Besides these, there were also awarded 5 prizes for the finalist students’ teams at Junior PR Award.

The complete list of winners is as it follows:

Corporate Communication: