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FRENCH/WEST/VAUGHAN Receives Two Ragan’s PR Daily Awards

December 12, 2024
French/West/Vaughan (FWV), one of the nation’s largest independently held PR, advertising and digital media agencies, which has an office in Detroit, received two major awards at yesterday’s Ragan’s 2024 PR Daily Awards and Top Agencies Awards program, which highlights campaigns, teams and agencies shaping the future of public relations and communications.

Rick French at the PR Daily Awards

Rick French

FWV Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Rick French was named Executive of the Year and FWV was named a Top Agency in the Midsize Agency Category.

The agency also received three honorable mentions on behalf of three client campaigns, including:

  • Media Events: FWV Energizes Largest Indian Company Investment in U.S. EV Market (Epsilon
    Advanced Materials)
  • Campaigns by Industry: FWV and AMP3’s PR Campaign for the Wrangler x Barbie Collaboration
  • Video Communications: Pendleton Whisky Teams up with Bob Woodruff Foundation to Empower
    Veterans

The winners of Ragan’s PR Daily Awards and Top Agencies Awards were announced on Dec. 10 during an industry awards luncheon held at City Winery in New York City and attended by leading nonprofit professionals, communications experts, and diversity and inclusion champions.

A 36 time “National Agency of the Year” recipient, FWV represents some of the world’s leading companies and brands, including Eaton Corporation, Mitsubishi Electric, LG Energy Solutions, Wrangler, Pepsi Bottling Ventures, W.R. Case & Sons Cutlery, the Guinness Book of World Records. The firm has won over 1,700 PR and advertising awards since its inception, and French has been named Agency Leader, Executive or Professional of the Year nine times by leading industry trade publications.