Winners in the 17th Philippine Quill Awards named
THE 17TH Philippine Quill and the 7th Student Quill Awards celebrate wins for Jollibee Foods Corporation as Company of the Year, DDB Group Philippines/ Ripple 8, Inc. as Agency of the Year, and the University of Santo Tomas as School of the Year, garnering the most number of excellence awards.
DDB Group Philippines retained their title of Agency of the Year, and University of Santo Tomas executed an impressive six-peat win for School of the Year, bagging the top prize for six out of the seven years that the award has been given.
Jollibee Foods Corporation won as top company, coming from its First Runner-Up finish the year before.
Smart Communications, Inc. was first runner-up, while Manila Electric Company (Meralco) was the second runner-up. In the Agency of the Year category, Ogilvy Philippines-Pulse Communications was hailed as first runner-up and ComCo Southeast Asia finished as second runner-up.
Megaworld Corporation bagged the Top Award in Communication Management for its “Eastwood City New Year Countdown to 2019-Media Relations” that gathered revelers to welcome a new year. The Top Award in Communication Research went to Meralco for its “Evaluation of One Meralco Foundation’s Household Electrification Program (HEP)” that aims to provide communities with less costly and convenient method of getting access to electricity.
Meralco also bagged the Top Award in Communication Skills with its “Meralco Typhoon Watch 2018,” an online technology platform that informed customers on how to stay safe before, during and after a typhoon, and how to use electricity efficiently and safely during such times.
IABC Philippines adopted the theme “Shape the Future” for the Quill Awards as a call to communicators to “change the conversation, change the future,” IABC President, Belle Tiongco stated in her welcome remarks.
The Philippine Quill Awards and the Philippine Student Quill Awards were held separately at the Grand Ballroom of the Marriott Hotel at Newport City.
In the School of the Year race, De La Salle-College of St. Benilde placed first runner-up, while University of Rizal System-Binangonan made it as the second runner-up.
The Student Quill Top Awards were conferred on University ofRizalSy stem Bin an go nan’ s“Team UniTEEN: Project TEENig Ni Mommy” for Communication Management; De La Salle University for“The Journ Project” under Communication Training and Education; and to UST Angelicum College for “Engkuwentro“which bagged the Top Award in Communication Skills.