Coors Brewing Company Honors Hispanic Leader of the Year.Coors Advances Leadership Campaign with Award to Rosa Navejar and the Fort Worth Hispanic Chamber of Commerce GOLDEN, Colo. -- As an extension of the L-deres campaign launched in June, Coors Brewing Company announced today it will honor Rosa Navejar, president of the Fort Worth Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (FWHCC), as the 2006 Coors Hispanic Leader of the Year and the FWHCC as the 2006 Coors Hispanic Non-Profit Sponsor of the Year. "The Leader of the Year Award allows Coors to elevate the merits the L-deres campaign participants and their sponsor organizations bring to the community," said Rafael Fantauzzi, Hispanic corporate relations director for Coors. "It's quite an honor for Coors to recognize Rosa who represents the spirit of engagement, passion, and success that Hispanics contribute to the community." Coors will spotlight Navejar's accomplishments in a print ad in Hispanic Magazine in December 2006 and in a short documentary film debuting in 2007. The FWHCC will receive a $25,000 grant to assist with the development of the Coors Hispanic Leadership Program (CHLP CHLP Community Health Leadership Program ) -- a continuing education continuing education: see adult education. continuing education or adult education Any form of learning provided for adults. In the U.S. the University of Wisconsin was the first academic institution to offer such programs (1904). opportunity for the graduates of its Hispanic Leadership Development Course. This course will be used to train and place Hispanic leaders on civic boards across the greater Fort Worth community. In addition, a FWHCC representative will attend the Hispanic Association of Corporate Responsibility/Harvard Business School Corporate Governance Program. "I am humbled to receive such an extraordinary honor from Coors," said Navejar. "The FWHCC's nomination for the L-deres campaign by Larry Anfin from Coors Distributing Company of Fort Worth was a recognition that left me speechless and overjoyed o·ver·joy tr.v. o·ver·joyed, o·ver·joy·ing, o·ver·joys To fill with joy; delight. o . Leadership is something that should be shared and mentored; the FWHCC and I look forward to working with Coors on the development of the Coors Hispanic Leadership Program." To select the Coors Hispanic Leader of the Year, the company asked its non-profit partners from the 2006 L-deres campaign to submit nominations from among those leaders appearing in Coors' print ads earlier in the year. The winner was selected based on the leader's stated award qualifications and the innovativeness of the organization's idea for the Coors Hispanic Leadership Program. Nominations were judged by an independent panel of Hispanic market experts, familiar with the need for leadership in the community, including: * David Chavez and Sarah Chavez, owners of LatinPointe * Leo Leo, in astronomy Leo [Lat.,=the lion], northern constellation lying S of Ursa Major and on the ecliptic (apparent path of the sun through the heavens) between Cancer and Virgo; it is one of the constellations of the zodiac. Estrada, UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX professor * Gabriel Reyes, owner of Reyes Entertainment * Carlos Alcazar alcazar Spanish alcázar Form of military architecture of medieval Spain, generally rectangular with defensible walls and massive corner towers. Inside was an open space (patio) surrounded by chapels, salons, hospitals, and sometimes gardens. , president of Hispanic Communications Network About Coors Brewing Company Coors Brewing Company is a subsidiary of Molson Coors Brewing Company Molson Coors Brewing Company (TSX: TAP; NYSE: TAP) is a company that was created by the merger of two of North America's largest breweries: Molson of Canada, and Coors of the United States, on February 9, 2005. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : TAP)(TSX TSX Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE before April, 2002) TSX Transfer from Stack Pointer to Index TSX True Space Extension : TAP). It is the third largest brewer in the U.S. The company's U.S. brands include Coors Light, Molson Canadian, Coors, Killian's Irish Red, Keystone, Blue Moon, Coors NA and Zima XXX. For more information on Molson Coors, visit the company's Web site, www.molsoncoors.com. Editors Note: More information about Rosa Navejar and FWHCC available upon request. |
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