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African Excellence Awards

  • FleishmanHillard’s Sharon Piehl Named to the African Excellence Awards PR Awards Jury.

    January 5, 2017

    Sharon Piehl, managing director of FleishmanHillard’s South African office, has been selected to be part of the PR jury at the 2016 African Excellence Awards, taking place in March this year. The Awards, launched in 2015, reward the best in African PR across a wide range of categories. Piehl, along with 23 other leading figures in the PR industry, will judge the most cutting-edge African PR campaigns of the past year. The Awards are part of a...

  • Increased recognition for communications campaigns executed in Africa

    May 10, 2016

    The economic surge in Africa has increased the need for world-class communications across the continent and has in turn, been mirrored by the increased recognition for communications campaigns executed across Africa. In 2015, The Public Relations Institute of South Africa responsible for hosting the Prism Awards, introduced the Pan-African Campaign of the Year, a new award to recognise excellence in PR in Africa. In addition to this, the first ever African Excellence Awards took place...

  • Is the communications landscape where it needs to be?

    February 22, 2016

    The prestigious Bookmark Awards have been presented annually for the past eight years honouring the industry’s best digital work. According to Kevin Welman, managing director of FleishmanHillard South Africa, the Bookmark Awards play a significant role in the communications industry. “The Bookmark Awards, like other awards programmes, serve as a mechanism to test the creative ability in the digital landscape and affords agencies the opportunity to benchmark themselves against international and local standards.”...