The Pita Group has won two first place awards in the third annual Strategic Video Awards for videos created for clients in 2012.
The Rocky Hill-based integrated marketing agency was named the winner in the direct marketing-consumer category for the travel video series ‘Non-stop Connecticut’ it created for the Travel Channel on behalf of Connecticut’s Central Regional Tourism District/CenterofCT.com.
The firm also won in the public affairs/government relations category for a National Coalition for Assistive and Rehab Technology video produced to educate policy makers, health insurance companies and clinicians on complex rehab patients’ medical need for customized wheelchairs and equipment.
The Strategic Video Awards were created to award those who use video to communicate for corporations, associations, non-profits, public institutions, colleges and universities, PR firms and ad agencies and custom publishers. The Strategic Video Awards judge based on the effectiveness of the message versus technical aspects of the video. Awards are given in 35 categories.
Other winners include TD Bank Group, AT&T, PayPal, the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, U.S. Department of Defense and the NFL.
Quinnipiac professor wins award for business research
Xiaohong He, a professor of international business in the School of Business at Quinnipiac University, won the Best Paper in Public Policy Award at the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference in San Francisco this month.
He and her co-author, Renyong Chi, a professor at the Zhejiang University of Technology, won the award for their research paper, “Conceptualization and Practice of Cluster Evolution in Developing Economies: Underlying Logics that Transform Survival or Subsistent Entrepreneurship Cluster.”
“Research shows there is no shortage of entrepreneurship at the bottom of the world’s pyramid,” He said. “However, more often than not, the entrepreneurship does not produce regional development as it does in developed countries. In fact, many poor entrepreneurs in developing countries are trapped at a subsistent level. This research looks at cases in China where these survival-motivated, rural-based poor entrepreneurial cottage firms have evolved into innovative regional industrial powerhouses.”
Webster Bank’s first Greenwich branch bows
Webster bankers and local dignitaries gathered Thursday to cut the ribbon at the Waterbury lender’s new retail branch and private bank office on 85 Mason St. in Greenwich. Front row (left to right) John Ciulla, executive vice president of Webster Middle Market Banking; Marcia O’Kane, executive director of the Greenwich Chamber of Commerce; Dan FitzPatrick, head of Webster Private Bank; Jerry Plush, Webster president and chief operating officer; First Selectman Peter Tesei; and branch manager David Rabin.
