S&A Cherokee Wins Summit Award from Garner Chamber of Commerce

S&A Cherokee won in the entrepreneurial category for companies with 16-50 employees.

2010-10-06

CARY, NC, October 06, 2010 (Press-News.org) S&A Cherokee, a full-service communications firm, has been honored by the Garner Chamber of Commerce as a winner in the Chamber's first-annual Summit Awards. S&A Cherokee won in the entrepreneurial category for companies with 16-50 employees.

The award was presented to S&A Cherokee at the Garner Chamber's Annual Meeting on Sept., 30 at the Grand Marquise Ballroom in Garner.

S&A Cherokee was one of 12 different companies named as finalists for six Summit Awards. ABC-11's Angela Hampton, former award-winning news anchor and now community relations director for WTVD, served as the emcee during the awards portion of the event.

"It's an honor to be publically acknowledged for our success as a company," said S&A founder and President Ron Smith. "Congratulations to our talented staff at S&A and everyone else who made this possible."

In 2010, S&A Cherokee also won three Sir Walter Raleigh Awards for Excellence in Communication from the Raleigh Public Relations Society (RPRS), three Hermes Creative Awards from the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals, four InSpire Awards from the North Carolina Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (NCPRSA) and an International Communitas Award. The company was also recently named by Inc. magazine to the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing privately held companies in America.

For more information about S&A Cherokee, call (919) 674-6020 or visit http://www.sacherokee.com

About S&A Cherokee

Delivering intelligent communications, S&A Cherokee is a full-service communications company providing public relations, advertising, marketing, event planning and custom publishing services. Originally founded as Smith & Associates in 1982, the company is based in Cary, N.C. In addition to its consulting and event planning services, S&A Cherokee publishes national and regional magazines such as Auto Remarketing, SubPrime Auto Finance News, Cary Magazine and Triangle East, as well as customized client publications. The company has approximately 40 employees. For more information, visit http://www.sacherokee.com, call (919) 674-6020 or follow us on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/sacherokee.

Media Contact:

Sarah Herring

S&A Cherokee

(919) 674-6020 x162

sherring@sacherokee.com

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