ADVOCACY & POLITICAL — City of Long Beach/Census 2000, Westside Project Area Committee (Long Beach), Doug Drummond (Long Beach City Council), Steve Horn & Tom Poe (38th Congressional District)

ASSOCIATIONS —  Executives Association of Long Beach, Independent Photo Imagers (Palm Desert), Long Beach Community Partnership, National Automatic Merchandising Association (Chicago), Rotary Club of Long Beach & Rotary District 5320, World Aquatic Babies Congress (Long Beach)

COMMUNICATIONS — American Telemarketing Association (Los Angeles), Beachcomber (Long Beach), GTE (Long Beach), Transcom Services www.transcomla.com (Paramount)

CONSTRUCTION — Bonded Roofing (Signal Hill), Compliance Associates (Signal Hill), ECCO Equipment Corporation (Santa Ana), Engineering Contractors Association (Downey), Kenco Construction (Glendale), Tempco Construction (Glendale)

EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING — Long Beach Job Corps, WorldTec Group International (Cerritos)

FINANCE — Farmers & Merchants Bank (Long Beach), Holthouse Carlin & Van Trigt CPAs (Long Beach), Long Beach Area Certified Development Company, McDonnell Douglas Finance Corporation (Long Beach), Windes & McClaughry Accountancy Corporation (Long Beach)

FOUNDATIONS — Arthritis National Research Foundation www.curearthritis.org (Long Beach), Long Beach Community Medical Center Foundation, Long Beach Memorial Medical Center Foundation

HEALTH CARE — John Douglas French Center for Alzheimer's Disease (Los Alamitos), Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (Torrance), Human Assessment Systems (Long Beach), Long Beach Comprehensive Health Center, Olive View Medical Center (Sylmar), St. Mary Medical Center, Long Beach

INSURANCE — International Insurance Society (New York), Berry Merritt Insurance Services (Long Beach), Mills Insurance Services (Los Alamitos), Transamerica Occidental Life (Los Angeles), Willis Corroon (Santa Ana)

LEGAL — James Perry (Los Alamitos), Thomas A. Ramsey (Long Beach), Taubman, Simpson, Young & Sulentor (Long Beach), Vandenberg, Newell, Curtis, Nelson & Schuur (Long Beach)

MANUFACTURING — California Accessible Vans (Signal Hill), Colortone (Los Angeles), Nasco Aircraft Brake (Gardena), Warm Fuzzies www.knit4u.com (Long Beach).

MORTUARIES — Cremation Society of America (Long Beach), Stewart Enterprises (New Orleans), Stricklin Family Mortuaries (Long Beach)

REAL ESTATE — Berro Property Management (Long Beach), Bixby Land Company www.bixbyland.com (Long Beach), Coldwell Banker (Mission Viejo), Desert Commercial II (Long Beach), Doty-Burton Associates (Long Beach), INCO (Signal Hill), Independent Mortgage (Long Beach)

RETAIL — ACT Electronics (Long Beach), John Bloeser Carpet One www.bloesercarpetone.com (Los Angeles), Bowers Companies (Long Beach), Coin Meter West (Signal Hill), Columbia Pharmacy (Long Beach), Dave Schneider Jewelry (Long Beach), El Dorado Country Club Restaurant, (Long Beach), Fish Tale Restaurant (Long Beach), Frame Express (Long Beach), Umberto Clothiers (Long Beach), Tilo’s European Autohaus (Los Alamitos)

SPORTS & RECREATION  — CSULB Athletic Association (Long Beach), Long Beach Marathon, Palm Springs Celebrity Golf Tournament, YMCA (Long Beach & Los Angeles)

STORAGE & DISTRIBUTION  — California Refrigerated Services (Long Beach), El Dorado Self Storage (Los Alamitos), Noble Distribution Services (Carson), Don Temple Enterprises (Long Beach), Tri-Modal Distribution Services (Carson)

TRANSPORTATION & TRAVEL — Auto Air Porter (El Segundo), Cruise Company of CA (Huntington Beach), Jatar Courier Service (Signal Hill), Metrolink & Metropolitan Transit Authority (Los Angeles), Queen City Rent-A-Car (Long Beach)

Eight national and regional awards for the John Douglas French Alzheimer Center's Family Ties newsletter
including a recent first place for ongoing publications by the Public Communicators of Los Angeles (PCLA)

Public Relations Society of America Protos Award for Coldwell Banker’s newsletter

Financial Report award for Archive Corporation’s annual report and an award from the Orange County Fair Publications Competition for Archive's monthly newsletter

Presidents’ Award for Long Beach Rotary's weekly newsletter and 75th anniversary brochure

Three ABWA national awards for the Palm Desert Chapter’s newsletter

PRSA Prism Award for Hughes Aircraft Company’s employee benefits communications package

Numerous industry awards for Harbor-UCLA Medical Center's publications.