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Charter
Communications and Jones Pharma Earn Recognition for Corporate Growth
The Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) honored Charter Communications
and Jones Pharma as the 2000-2001 Outstanding Corporate Growth and
Emerging Company Award recipients. Awards were presented during
ACG’s annual InterGrowth® conference held in May in Colorado Springs.
The Outstanding Corporate Growth Award recognizes companies with
sales above $500 million that have demonstrated strong growth over
the five-year period prior to the award date. With operations in
about 40 states and more than six million customers, Charter Communications
is the fourth largest broadband communications company in the U.S.
Companies that have exhibited distinctive strategic positioning
and dynamic leadership for at least three years, in addition to
annual sales less than $500 million, are eligible for the Emerging
Growth Award. Founded in1981, Jones Pharma became a specialty pharmaceutical
company that acquired small product lines of proven, branded medications
from other pharmaceutical companies and re-invigorated them through
a focused marketing effort.
Since 1985, the ACG has presented awards during its annual InterGrowth®
conference. This is the first time the two corporate recipients
are from the same metro area. Charter Communications and Jones Pharma
join previous ACG winners including The Home Depot, Cisco Systems,
Sylvan Learning Systems, U.S. Robotics, General Mills, Amgen, King
World Productions and Blockbuster Entertainment Corp.
The ACG was founded in 1954 and promotes the interests of its members,
who are leaders in strategic corporate growth. The association has
nearly 5,500 members representing 2,500 companies in 36 chapters
throughout the U.S., Canada and the UK.
HOK Honored for Environment-Conscious Design
Above:
Mikhail Gorbachev (right) represented Global Green USA in honoring
HOK. Receiving the award is Wiliam Odell, AIA, director of sustainable
design and design principal, HOK.
The Global Green USA award for “Designing a Sustainable and Secure
World” went to St. Louis’ Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum (HOK) Inc.
“We’re deeply honored that Global Green has chosen to honor our
efforts,” says William Odell, AIA, HOK director of sustainable design
and design principal. “We have an important opportunity—and a tremendous
responsibility—to help preserve our environment for future generations.
HOK wants to help lead as the entire industry moves toward sustainability.”
HOK building projects worldwide has been recognized for their unique
and significant environmental solutions. Most recently, the American
Institute of Architects’ Committee on the Environment selected the
NIDUS Center for Scientific Enterprise in St. Louis as one of the
Top 10 Green Projects of 2001.
Global Green USA is the U.S. affiliate of Mikhail Gorbachev’s environment
organization Green Cross International. HOK is the first architectural
design firm to receive this award.
Gorbachev joined Global Green USA in honoring HOK in April at the
Third Annual New York Gala at the Rainbow Room in Rockefeller Plaza.
Other honorees included U.S. Senators Sam Nunn and Richard Lugar,
the Government of Iceland, the Pew Center for Climate Change, and
Bill Moyers and Judith Davidson Moyers. Previous recipients include
General Motors and Time magazine.
SynApps Software, Formerly PC Innovators, Expands Focus to Genomics
and Bioinformatics
The PC Innovators Group of Companies is pleased to announce the
re-branding of its software development business to SynApps Software.
SynApps is a St. Louis software company focused on development for
the scientific and medical marketplace. Founded as PC Innovators
Consulting in 1989 the name change is part of an organizational
focus expanding into the fields of genomics and bioinformatics.
The name SynApps was developed to reflect the cooperative development
of new software applications and is also a homophone to synapse,
a biological term identifying the space between neurons. This space
forms a connection point across which nervous impulses are conveyed.
SynApps believes this is symbolic of the connection made with customers.
SynApps focuses on a few important differentiators in the genomics
and medical markets The future challenge of the biotech industry
will be to understand the huge amount of data emerging from the
Human Genome Project and other related DNA sequencing efforts, and
to understand the evolving field of proteomics, which attempts to
understand the link between proteins and genomes. These efforts
will significantly change the way pharmaceutical and agricultural
research is conducted.
Adamson Acquires DG&A Communications
Marketing communications firm Adamson Inc. has acquired DG&A Communications,
which specializes in marketing services for financial services,
health care and telecommunications clients. Moving to Adamson with
DG&A president and founder David Gutting will be staff members Robbin
List, Barb Montanye, Cherie Burroughs, Kevin King and Josephine
McDonald.
Gutting established DG&A in 1979. Major clients for the firm include
USA Federal Credit Union, Carondelet Health System and First Cellular
of Southern Illinois.
Established in 1981, Adamson is a full-service marketing communications
firm serving more than 40 local, regional, national and international
clients.
The Associated General Contractors (AGC) of America named the St.
Louis Chapter as its 2000 Chapter of the Year. The AGC of St. Louis
was selected for this honor from among 100 other chapters in the
country based on excellence in services to members and the St. Louis
region. Last year, AGC of St. Louis member firms built projects
worth more than $1.5 billion through the region.
The St. Louis
Chapter at the recent Associated General Contractors of America
Convention in Nashville, Tenn. (left to right): Leonard Toenjes,
AGC executive vice president 2000; James Glenn, 2000 president;
Mark Schnoebelen, 2001 chairman of the board; and Kevin Kuntz,
2001 vice chairman of the board.
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