The Awards for Publication Excellence (APEX™- USA) announced that Anna J H Fang, director of anna fang public relations from Hong Kong won a 2009 Award of Excellence for her company brochure. Last year, her company website www.annafangpr.com won an award of excellence from APEX™ - USA.
Anna has won a total of three Grand Awards of Excellence and 13 Awards of Excellence since 1995 for the PR and marketing campaigns and marketing materials she has created for past employers (Motorola, Motorola University, Hutchison Telephone) and clients. In the past few years, she has won Awards of Excellence and Grand Awards of Excellence for the PR and Publicity Program for the Sedan Chair Race Charities Fund, the Hong Kong Association of Business and Professional Women and for clients - the Center for Creative Leadership and Andrew Matthews.
anna fang public relations was founded in 2002 and raises the profile of US and foreign multi-nationals and companies based out of Hong Kong for the Greater China region. anna fang public relations specialises in CEO Branding and CEO Profiling.
Anna Fang has over 20 years experience in corporate communications, marketing and public relations working in Beijing, China, the United States and Hong Kong. Previously, she worked for Motorola, Motorola University, Hutchison Telephone and the Great Wall Sheraton Hotel in Beijing, China. Many of the marketing communications projects and publications she spearheaded in the corporate world have won awards of excellence or grand awards of excellence.
APEX™ 2009 Awards are based on excellence in graphic design, editorial content and the ability to achieve overall communications excellence. APEX™ Grand Awards honor the outstanding works in each main category while APEX™ Awards of Excellence recognize exceptional entries in each of the sub-categories. 1,158 APEX Awards of Excellence recognize excellence in 122 individual categories.
3,785 entries were evaluated, in the following distribution:
A total of 100 APEX Grand Awards were presented in 11 major categories to honor the outstanding works in those categories. 1,158 APEX Awards of Excellence recognize excellence in 122 individual categories.
The majority of entries were from North America and a few winning entries came from countries such as Hong Kong and Singapore. Also competing were Kowloon Motor Bus and Singapore Press Holdings – also winners of the APEX™ awards.
The Awards for Publication Excellence (APEX™) is sponsored by the Editors of Writing That Works and The Business Communications Report in the USA. This is the 21st year of the Awards for Publication Excellence. www.apexawards.com
For more information, please contact: Anna J H Fang, Director, anna fang public relations
Tel: 852 2535-9198 / 852 9045-5005
Email: info@annafangpr.com / annafangpr@yahoo.com
Website: www.annafangpr.com
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About Anna Fang and anna fang public relations
Since 1988 in Hong Kong, Beijing, China, Southeast Asia, and the USA, Anna has earned numerous achievements in marketing communications, public relations and corporate communications.
Prior to her PR consultancy anna fang public relations, she was the Regional Corporate Communications Manager for Motorola in the Asia Pacific region, and later, Regional Marketing Communications Manager for Motorola University managing public relations and marketing communications across 15 countries in the Asia Pacific region. She played a pivotal role in producing regional marketing communication materials, leading regional employee communications, print and internet advertising strategies and event management.
Her “firsts” for Motorola University include:
• She organised two press conferences for Motorola University – one in Hyderabad, India for the Indian Institute of Informational Technology, and another in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia at Malaysia Multimedia University – both were signing ceremonies for Motorola. In Hyderabad, the signing ceremony was timed to coincide with the visit of President Bill Clinton in India.
• She launched a first-ever award-winning E-Learning program for the Asia Pacific region targeted at Motorola employees in the region.
The E-Learning campaign included marketing materials, a roadshow, and an intranet site which had an award-winning video which were interviews of the CEO and senior managers in the region, an on-line contest and success stories of Motorola University. On the E-Learning website, employees could have the choice to enroll in 2,000 Motorola University courses.
She worked on every aspect of corporate communications – corporate image, marketing communications, and issues management. She traveled to many of the countries in the region to work on global and regional initiatives and organising press conferences in Cambodia, Malaysia, India and Hong Kong, along with liaising with the corporate headquarters in Schaumburg, Illinois (USA) and the regional headquarters of Motorola in Singapore and China.
She worked at Hutchison Telephone (one of the first cellular phone companies) in Hong Kong for four years as the Public Relations Manager, and prior to that position for four years in Beijing, China at the Great Wall Sheraton Hotel and Tianlun Dynasty Hotel during 1988-1992. Through working in Hong Kong and Beijing, Anna acquired solid experience running PR sponsorship programs and company events, marketing communications, and established networks with the media, and with various companies.
As the director of anna fang public relations, she advises clients on strategic communications and issues management, managing programs to raise CEO and brand profiles through public relations, media relations, and client events.
Besides her public relations and media relations work in the Asia Pacific Region, Anna's other passions are the Hong Kong Association of Business and Professional Women and the Matilda Sedan Chair Race Charities Fund.
She is a past president of the Hong Kong Association of Business and Professional Women (HKABPW) for 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001 and 2003, and has led the following public relations campaigns and programs from 2003-2009 such as:
• HKABPW Inaugural CEO Women Roundtable in 2003
• Coordinator and Host Organisation for the Corporate Image Building Program for the Hong Kong Association of Business and Professional Women in the fall of 2003 and winter of 2004
• Co-founder of the HKABPW Mentoring Program (2003-2005)
• Committee member of the HKABPW 25th Anniversary publications and Gala Celebration (Summer and Fall 2004)
• Host Organisation for the City University of Hong Kong, Dept of English and Dept of Media and Communications’
She was the Chair of the BPW International Mentoring Program from 2005-2008 and created an in-depth section on the BPW International website on mentoring, and a member of the BPW International Public Relations Committee from 2005-2008. She assisted BPW International in winning an international award for their website in 2008 – “Most Improved Website”.
For the Matilda Sedan Chair Race Charities Fund, Anna was the official PR consultant for three years (2002-2005). In the past, she was nominated for the Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and for the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman of the Year.
Anna Fang has a Master’s Degree in Comparative History from the University of California, Santa Cruz, specializing in Chinese History, 1911 to the present.
