Celebrate the Public Relations Professionals Behind the Local Brands and Companies You Love at the Annual Pepperpot Awards
We all have a favorite restaurant, clothing brand, coffee house, or other local business that we enjoy supporting. However, those brands and story telling are more often than not the results of a public relations figure. Often behind the scenes, PR professionals help drive brand awareness and messaging and are rarely given a spotlight in their own right. That’s where the Pepperpot Awards come into play. This annual awards ceremony put together by the Public Relations Society of America Philadelphia Chapter recognizes Philly-based organizations for outstanding campaigns and tactics.
This year’s Pepperpot Awards will be hosted by the crew of Wooder Ice Media and will take place Thursday December 5th at The Down Town Club by Cescaphe (600 Chestnut St.). Guests will be able to mix and mingle with Philly’s brightest stars in the field of public relations. Dozens of agencies, individual practitioners, non-profit organizations, and corporations submitted nearly 100 projects for consideration and only a select few will walk away with the coveted Pepperpot and Ladle Awards.
Each project that was sent for consideration was reviewed and judged by the PRSA Los Angeles Chapter and include categories such including integrated communications, media relations, AI, and publicity stunts.
Guests will enjoy a festive event with a Hollywood-inspired award ceremony theme, cocktails, dinner, and of course star-studded networking, Tickets to the Pepperpot Awards are available now at philly.org/PepperpotEvent
Pepperpot Awards Backstory
In 1968, Bill Parker, APR, who was then the PRSA Philly chapter president and head of Campbell’s soup communications, named the Pepperpot awards in honor of Philadelphia’s famous Pepperpot soup, which has roots in the Revolutionary War. Parker suggested the name to conjure up excitement and good-humored intrigue, saying, “Like Philly’s famous soup, we put everything we have into all of our public relations campaigns.” The Pepperpot is now a coveted award.
