Sunday, December 20, 2009

Florida Utility Wins 5 PR Awards

Kissimmee Utility Authority won 5 awards on April 24 at the 2008 Image Awards, an anniversary antagonism sponsored by the Orlando Area Chapter of the Florida Public Relations Association. The account becoming two of the competition's better ceremoniousness -- Grand Image Awards -- as able-bodied as two Image Awards and a Judges' Award.

Kissimmee, Fla. -- Kissimmee Utility Authority (KUA) won 5 awards on April 24 at the 2008 Image Awards, an anniversary antagonism sponsored by the Orlando Area Chapter of the Florida Public Relations Association. The winners were appear at a bright captivated at CityArts Factory in city Orlando.

The account becoming two of the competition's better ceremoniousness -- Grand Image Awards -- as able-bodied as two Image Awards and a Judges' Award. Only three Grand Image Awards are handed out anniversary year.

The Image Awards antagonism recognizes companies that display and apply absolute accessible relations projects that accommodated the accomplished standards of arete in four apparatus of PR programming: research, planning, beheading and evaluation.

An Image Award is presented to the top-scoring access in anniversary category. An Award of Distinction is presented to all entries that accommodated the accepted of arete set by a console of judges. A Judges' Award is presented by board for an outstanding access that achieves best after-effects while application a minimum aggregate of money.

Image Award winners in anniversary analysis are automatically advised for the Grand Image Award, apery the finest examples of accessible relations programming in Central Florida.

In the crisis communications category, KUA accustomed a Grand Image Award and an Image Award for its 2007 blow accommodation campaign. The seven-month attack included the advance of cyberbanking storm alerts, administration of printed newsletters and 65,000 blow handbooks, and the hosting of a alternation of chargeless adjacency affairs advised to advice association adapt for the storm season. The attack was implemented at a amount of 35 cents per account customer. Additional advice is accessible at http://www.kua.com/hurricane.

In the calendar/poster category, KUA accustomed a Grand Image Award, an Image Award and a Judges' Award for its 2008 agenda of activity conservation. The anniversary agenda acclimated apprentice artwork to animate the attention of electricity a allotment of account customers. Copies of the agenda -- 16,500 in all -- were provided chargeless of allegation to account customers. The acceptable artwork is featured online at http://www.kua.com/Community/Features/StudentArt08.

KUA's acceptable entries will now advanced to FPRA's statewide akin of competition, the Golden Image Awards. Those awards will be appear on August 5 at Gaylord Palms Resort in Kissimmee.

KUA has becoming 216 local, state, civic and all-embracing advice awards for accessible relations programs, contest and publications back 1995.

Founded in 1901, KUA (www.kua.com) is Florida's sixth better community-owned account accouterment electric and telecommunication casework to 170,000 association in 5 Central Florida counties.

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