Monday, April 6, 2009

Concept PR CEO inducted into PR Hall of Fame


The Public Relations Council of India (PRCI) has inducted Concept PR CEO B N Kumar into its prestigious ‘Hall of Fame’ at its 3rd Global Meet held at Bangalore on April 3 & 4, 2009 for his “outstanding contribution to the PR profession.”

PRCI said in its announcement at the global meet on “PRoactive” that BN Kumar (BNK for friends) joined the mass communications profession over three decades ago as a journalist with UNI where he won laurels for his quick reporting. He was part of the team that set up O&M PR (now Ogilvy PR) in 1986. He also worked with Reliance Infocomm before joining Concept PR at headquarters in Mumbai in 2006.

Mr. Ad De Visscher, India Head of Shell Technology and Mr.M.B Jayaram, Chairman PRCI, and Mr. Vaughn Richtor, CEO & MD ING Vysya Bank, Mr. Mahesh Joshi Director, Doordarshan and noted Kannada film personality Ms Parvatamma Rajkumar, felicitated on BNK.

Concept PR is a wholly owned subsidiary of Concept Communication Limited, India’s leading integrated, independent financial communication agency. Headquartered in Mumbai, the agency has full fledged offices in 6 other cities within India - New Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Ahmedabad and an office in Dubai. It is aligned to International Public Relations Network (IPREX), a body formed of PR companies to provide members with an international platform across 48 countries. Concept PR, with a team of over 150 professionals, has been acknowledged as one of the most effective agencies in the country, being felicitated with the ‘PR Agency of the Year, 2007’ by PRCI.

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