For Immediate Release
Contact:
Hillary Angel
Wilkin Guge Marketing
(909) 390-1239 x104
hangel@wilkinguge.com
Inland Empire Agency Principal Gail Guge Named
“Business Woman of the Year”
Ontario, Calif., April 14, 2008 – Gail Guge, managing partner and certified brand strategist of Ontario's Wilkin Guge Marketing, has been named "Business Woman of the Year" by the National Association of Women Business Owners' Inland Empire Chapter (NAWBO-IE). Guge will be honored at the organization's 5th Annual Amazing Women of the Inland Empire Awards Dinner on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 at the Doubletree Hotel Ontario.
"This is an amazing honor and a credit to what our team at Wilkin Guge has accomplished over the past 10 years. I have been fortunate to work with some of the top brands in my 30-year career - Chiquita, Curad, Deloitte & Touche, Hardees, Heinz, Procter & Gamble, Prudential and Wendy's to name a few - and I'm thrilled we are able to bring this model of branding and marketing success to mid-size companies in our region. It is a bonus to get paid for doing what you love to do," said Gail Guge, managing partner and Certified Brand Strategist.
NAWBO-IE will also honor three additional Inland Empire business women at the evening event:
Community Bridge Builder
Karen Bowerman, Ph.D.
Dean of the College of Business & Public Administration at California State University, San Bernardino
Legacy Award
Maria Contreras-Sweet
Founding Chair, PromericaBank
Trailblazer Award
Cynthia Renee Frazier
Co-Founder, Energy Tour Café
Guge joined Wilkin Guge Marketing as managing partner in 2003 with more than 25 years of experience in agency and corporate business environments. Over the years, she has developed a 10-step branding process called Brandus Operandi™ to help companies reach growth goals. Guge is also Inland Southern California's first Certified Brand Strategist and is accredited by the Public Relations Society of America.
Guge is the founding director of Purple Hearts, a non-profit organization that supports families housed in a domestic violence shelter. She also serves as a member of the National Association of Women Business Owners' Inland Empire Business Network and Cal State University, San Bernardino's Business Alliance and is on the boards of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce Foundation, University of La Verne College of Business and Public Management, and Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management.
The National Association of Women Business Owners' Inland Empire Chapter represents women entrepreneurs in all industries. NAWBO-IE supports the aspirations of future businesswomen by providing scholarships to young women in local colleges and universities. For more information about the organization or the event, please visit www.nawboie.org.
About Wilkin Guge Marketing
Wilkin Guge Marketing is the only firm in Southern California nationally certified in brand strategy with a fully-integrated marketing model. Focused on aggressive client growth through its proprietary ten-step Brandus Operandi™ process, clients of the firm grew on average 28% last year which is four times greater than the national growth average. Agency campaigns, featured on www.wilkinguge.com, include integrated research, brand identity, strategic planning, advertising, media planning and buying, public relations, direct marketing, Web development and ongoing customer relationship management. Success is measured in aggressive client growth: When brands leap, business bounds.™
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