Bernard Hodes Group have their creative work honored with three grand prizes

NEW YORK CITY, NY ñ May 5, 2005 ñ Bernard Hodes Group and its global affiliates, leading providers of integrated talent solutions, announced today that their creative work was honored with three grand prizes at the annual Employment Management Association (EMA) Creative Excellence Awards. They won a total of 27 EMA awards in the annual employment recruitment advertising competition across nine categories (http://www.hodes.com/ema). Bernard Hodes Group is a unit of Omnicom (NYSE:OMC) a leading global advertising, marketing and corporate communications company.



Bernard Hodes Group and the Bernard Hodes Global Networkís New Zealand affiliate, nearly swept the M.O.R.E. (Measurement of Recruiting Effectiveness) award category by winning the Grand Prize, First and Second Place awards. The M.O.R.E. award recognizes creative work that results in excellent recruitment metrics. The campaigns honored were for Tranz Rail New Zealand and LabCorp. Labcorp also took a first place award in the competitionís video/film category.

ìHodes has been extremely responsive to the needs of our organization. Their interactive solution cut our time to fill in half,î said John Campbell, LabCorpís Director of National Recruitment and Retention.

ìWe are proud of all the honors received and of the talent, both within Hodes and our client partner organizations, who helped create the winning work. Receiving top honors in the M.O.R.E. category was especially exciting since it reinforces our strong client commitment to delivering successful metrics,ì said Alan V. Schwartz, president and CEO of Bernard Hodes Group.î

Winning entries honored work produced for the following Hodes clients: American Girl, Boca Raton Community Hospital, Cadbury Schweppes, Champion Technologies, CJW Medical Center, DriveTime, Edwards Air Force Base, Eli Lily and Company, Enterprise, Exempla Healthcare, HCA Richmond Hospitals, HCA West Florida Division, Health Management Corporation, Hertfordshire Constabulary, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), John Muir/Mt. Diablo Health System,
LabCorp, NovaStar, On The Border, SunTrust, Transport for London, Tranz Rail, and Universal Studios Japan.

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