We are pleased to announce Ame Wadler, MWW Group Chief Management Officer and EVP Worldwide Healthcare, has been named one of the “Best Fifty Women in Business” by NJBiz. This award honors 50 women who share a commitment to business growth, professional excellence, and to the community – in essence, women who are shaping the economic future of New Jersey.

Since joining MWM Group in December 2007, Ame has been directly responsible for much of the success of the company. She has over 25 years of experience in the full-spectrum of public relations and public affairs and is responsible for establishing thought leadership platforms and driving career training and development opportunities for the firm. Ame also serves as an outstanding mentor for the women of MWW Group and staunch advocate for the importance of work life balance.

Ame balances her work successes with devotion to her family and philanthropic work with a 501C3 Youth basketball program that has a focus on athletic, academic and community service development for young people. Ame is also an active member of local PTO and a volunteer coordinator for health oriented programs.

On Tuesday, January 13 a major earthquake devastated much of Haiti and caused widespread suffering and destruction. Early casualty estimates from Haiti’s massive quake range from thousands to half a million. Giving back to our communities is a core value at MWW Group and there are many wonderful organizations that have launched emergency relief efforts to assist the people of Haiti. Here is a list of charitable organizations you can support that are currently active in Haiti and providing lifesaving assistance.

• Action Against Hunger, 877-777-1420
• American Red Cross, 800-733-2767
• AmeriCares, 800-486-4357
• CARE, 800-521-2273
• Direct Relief International, 805-964-4767
• Doctors Without Borders, 888-392-0392
• Friends of WFP, 866-929-1694
• Haiti Children, 877-424-8454
• Haitian Health Foundation, 860-886-4357
• Hope for Haiti, 239-434-7183
• International Medical Corps, 800-481-4462
• International Rescue Committee, 877-733-8433
• Meds and Food for Kids, 314-420-1634
• Operation USA, 800-678-7255
• Oxfam, 800-776-9326
• Partners in Health, 617-432-5298
• Save the Children, 800-728-3843
• UNICEF, 800-367-5437
• World Concern, 800-755-5022
• World Relief, 800-535-5433

You can also simply text “HAITI” to “90999″ and a donation of $10 will be given automatically to the Red Cross to help with relief efforts, charged to your cell phone bill.

Thank you in advance for your support and concern.

We are pleased to announce that Claire Koeneman has won “Best Executive- Service Businesses” in the 6th Annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business. The Stevie Awards for Women in Business is an international competition recognizing the accomplishments of outstanding women executives, business owners, and the organizations they run.

Claire Koeneman, President of the Financial Relations Board (FRB) and General Manager of MWW Group’s Midwest Region, has focused her career on helping public and private clients achieve financial, strategic and business goals. She is known for her sophisticated C-suite advice, refined people skills and deep expertise in financial and corporate communications, public relations and media. CEOs and CFOs across the country – and across the world – seek her counsel as they make critical decisions about how to build their reputation in the financial markets, convey the strength of their executive team and effectively communicate their assets, both tangible and intangible. Claire also serves as a trusted advisor to some of the leading companies in the world, be it working on a major M&A deal that needs to be communicated to multiple stakeholders or strategizing how to communicate earnings to the markets for optimum results. Proving herself as a thought leader in today’s trying times, Claire has authored numerous white papers and acted as an industry spokesperson, quoted frequently in financial and trade press. Throughout all of her work with FRB and MWW Group, Claire balances her work successes with devotion to her family and philanthropic work.

MWW Group was recently honored with GALAXY Awards for excellent work for Nikon, Samsung, and Keep a Child Alive. In addition, MWW Group’s first annual Corporate Social Responsibility report was also recognized. These awards are truly a testament to MWW Group’s passion for high quality public relations work and our commitment to change the game for our clients.  What truly makes MWW Group great are the talented people who come each day motivated to deliver best & brightest work for our clients and we’re honored so many campaigns were selected as GALAXY Award winners.

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Look Good in Pictures: Nikon’s How to Series with

Carson Kressley

Category: Website/Consumer

MWW Group designed an interactive website for Nikon’s Look Good in Pictures Series with Carson Kressley to build awareness for Nikon among a key audience as the brand that makes being photographed fun. The Look Good in Pictures campaign resulted in more than 200,000 visitors to the site and presented visitors with real life moments and practical, easy-to-use tips.

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Samsung Electronics: MWW Group Scores a Touchdown for Samsung

Category: PR Awareness Campaign

MWW Group launched an integrated marketing campaign for Samsung leveraging their partnership with the NFL that gave fans the opportunity to share their passion and stories surrounding America’s favorite sport. The campaign was one of the most successful marketing campaigns for Samsung ever implemented with the NFL, garnering more than 64 million media impressions.

Keep a Child Alive’s 5th Annual Black Ball

Category: PR Special Events

MWW Group secured over 250 million media impressions and raised a record breaking $2.45 million in donations at Keep a Child Alive’s red carpet event, the Black Ball Gala.

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MWW Group CSR Report

Category: Annual Reports/Corporate Responsibility

MWW Group’s inaugural report shares the values and principles that guide our corporate citizenship and highlights examples of our citizenship in practice, demonstrating that our commitments are backed by actions that have made, and continue to make, a difference.

We are proud to announce MWW Group @ Deutsch has won a 2009 PR News Platinum PR Award in the Media Relations category for our work on the IKEA “Embrace Change ‘09” campaign.

In January 2009, IKEA wanted to elevate the status of its Washington, D.C. area stores after making significant local renovations, upgrades, and customer service enhancements. The communications goal was simple: to reintroduce the IKEA concept and stores to the D.C. area through a campaign that generates buzz and awareness and revive the enthusiasm and excitement Washingtonians feel for IKEA.

Coincidently, these positive adjustments to the IKEA D.C. area stores came at a time of “Change” for D.C., which led to the concept of the “Embrace Change ‘09″ Campaign developed by agency partner Deutsch NY and publicized internationally by the MWW Group Consumer Lifestyle Marketing team. During the week prior to the Presidential Inauguration, IKEA kicked off its “Embrace Change ‘09″ Campaign with an “IKEA Oval Office” positioned in Washington, D.C.’s high-traffic Union Station and a mock presidential motorcade that drove through the streets of D.C., with IKEA boxes strapped to the roof and a sofa protruding from the limo trunk. Within the two weeks surrounding IKEA’s physical presence in the D.C. market, MWW generated more than 495,500,000 media impressions from over 400 placements and more than 60 minutes of broadcast coverage in media outlets of every kind ranging from newspapers, magazines, television, key social, pop culture and design blogs, trades and even into a popular late night talk show host’s monologue. Additionally, blog posts mentioning IKEA increased by more than 300% within the duration of the campaign.