IN BRIEF
> Orient Planet PR & Marketing Communications grabbed the award for Best Media, Marketing & Events company at the Middle East Stars of Business Awards, recently held at the Joharah Ballroom of the Madinat Jumeirah Resort in Dubai. The award was given in recognition of the company’s significant contributions in the field of PR and marketing—reinforcing its position as one of the Middle East region’s top Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMES). The Middle East Stars of Business recognises the region’s best SMES across 22 business categories. > J. Walter Thompson Saudi Arabia was recently awarded the first ever "Vendor Award – Innovation Category" by Saudi Telecom Company’s Procurement division at STC’S fourth Vendor Day at Gitex 2015 held in Dubai. The award recognises STC’S partnership with J. Walter Thompson and the agency’s expertise in communicating the STC products and services in the most innovative ways across innovative channels, by proposing and implementing new ideas to make STC more efficient, competitive, and agile. The main theme of the Award show was planned to be the first time ever distribution of the STC Vendor Awards, aimed at both recognising and rewarding successful suppliers and endure long lasting relationships, across three categories - Commercial, IT and Network - while the awards would tackle three themes or attributes that the vendors are bringing to the table, namely Innovation, Collaboration and Added-value.