Shell wins ‘Company of the Year’ award

This is a press release from the International Association of Business Communications (IABC) Philippines. Rappler is a media partner for the Philippine Quill Awards 2014.

MANILA, Philippines – Shell Companies bagged the “Company of the Year” award from the 2014 Philippine Quill Awards organized by IABC Philippines, an award-giving body for business communication efforts by companies and various organizations across the country.

Shell also won the Communication Skills Top Award for its centennial campaign.

Manila Electric Company (Meralco) won 1^st runner-up while ABS-CBN received the 2^nd runner-up honors.

Stratworks, Incorporated, meanwhile, was hailed as Agency of the Year.

Other winners include:

• Metrobank Foundation Incorporated – Communication Management Top Award (Metrobank Group Helping Hands Relief and Rehabilitation Response for Yolanda Survivors)
• University of the Philippines-College of Mass Communications’ Communication Research Department – Communication Training and Education Top Award (“Be aware: You are at a risk communication conference”)

Top awards are conferred to entries that garnered the highest score among excellence awardees per division. The organization and agency that wins the most “excellent awards,” meanwhile, wins the company and agency of the Year.

IABC also awarded outstanding work by college students through a junior version of the Quill Awards.

For the Philippine Student Quill Awards, University of Santo Tomas, garnered the most Excellence Awards to become School of the Year.

Colegio de San Juan de Letran notched the Top Award with the entry “Rainbow X.”

“Tahan Na” by Prism Productions (also from Letran), is the first winner of the Holcim Special Award for Sustainability. The award is given to a student entry that best exemplifies a communication initiative to advocate and support sustainability.

E-book

Apart from the awarding ceremony held March 9, another highlight of the event was the launching of “The Best Practices in Communication Planning and Implementation” e-book, the first-ever digital publication of IABC Philippines.

It contains 59 case studies from diverse industries that won Excellence Awards in the 2013 Philippine Quill Awards.

The e-book hopes to inspire more companies and organizations to enhance their use of communication as a strategy to attain their business goals, IABC Philippines President Kane Errol Choa said.

“ Hopefully, this will encourage others to take communication seriously, seeing how great campaigns can boost companies as well as make the world a better place for everyone,” Choa said.

The Quill winners had a symbolic simultaneous pinning of the Quill badge led by IABC Philippines Chair Ritzi Ronquillo.

“The Quill pin signifies our unwavering hunger for excellence and our commitment to satisfy this desire to continuously improve on our craft. It is a reminder to us communicators, regardless of the industries we belong to, that what we do is important. It can change organizations. It can change lives,” Ronquillo said.

Belle Tiongco, committee head for the Quill and Student Quill awards said there was not only an increase in the number of entries, but the overall quality of entries also improved – thus, the record-breaking number of merit and excellence honorees this year.

We can see all our efforts in uniting and strengthening the communication profession already paying off,” Tiongco said.

“We’re very excited for our student-winners. We hope that through their Student Quill experience, we have inspired them to become achievers as practitioners, just like the top-notch communication professionals from the biggest companies in the Philippines,” committee head Richard Arboleda added.

The IABC Philippines is the first chapter outside North America of the global IABC, a network of over 15,500 communication professionals in 80 countries.

The IABC holds the annual Gold Quill Awards, considered the highest honor in business communication in the world. – Rappler.com

Photos from IABC Philippines