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Publicity Club of Chicago Golden Trumpet AwardAndy Richardson, 35, vice president of Ginny Richardson Public Relations (GR-PR) received the Golden Trumpet Award for outstanding achievement from the Publicity Club of Chicago (PCC) on Friday, May 6, at a luncheon and awards ceremony for 600 public relations professionals at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago.

He accepted the award from celebrity presenters Dean Richards of WGN-TV and Peter Sagal of National Public Radio.

Richardson won the PCC’s top honor in the category of marketing for his work on the grand opening of Tom & Eddie’s, a new gourmet burger restaurant which opened in Aug., 2010, in Lombard.

Tom & Eddie's Chicago PR AwardTom & Eddie’s was founded by two former executives from McDonald’s – Tom Dentice and Ed Rensi – who dreamt of starting a burger restaurant from scratch. They brainstormed: “If we could do anything at all …” They originated recipes, set up shop at the culinary kitchens at College of DuPage, and began taste testing by offering free meals in exchange for written questionnaires.

GR-PR was retained in May 2010, and expectations were high. The firm was responsible for social as well as traditional media and charged with building anticipation, then maintaining interest. The launch would be primarily social media and publicity driven; there would be very little advertising. Read the rest of this entry »

(HINSDALE, IL) Ginny Richardson, president of Ginny Richardson Public Relations (GR-PR), received the Silver Trumpet Award from the Publicity Club of Chicago (PCC) on Thursday, May 14, at an awards ceremony at the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago. In attendance were more than 500 public relations executives from public relations firms in Chicago and suburbs.

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(HINSDALE, IL) Chicago’s Jennifer Navarro of Ginny Richardson Public Relations (GR-PR) received two public relations awards in as many days.

She won a Skyline Merit Award from the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Chicago Chapter on Tuesday, May 15, and the Golden Trumpet Award from the Publicity Club of Chicago (PCC) on Wednesday, May 16.

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(HINSDALE, IL) – Ginny Richardson Public Relations (GR-PR) won three top awards at the 2006 Publicity Club of Chicago’s Golden Trumpet Awards luncheon, held Friday, May 5, 2006, at the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago. In attendance were more than 500 public relations executives from Chicago and suburbs. Awards were presented by Janet Davies, host of 190 North on ABC-Channel 7, and Bill Zwecker, entertainment reporter, on WGN-TV – Channel 9.

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