O. C. Tanner Becomes Sixth Prudential Client to Win Top Pensions & Investments Magazine Award.Business Editors NEWARK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 25, 2001 Pensions & Investments Magazine has honored O. C. Tanner with a first place award for the company's Defined Contribution Investment education program. The company won for excellence under the category of "Special Projects - Print (1,000-5,000 employees)." Founded in 1927, O. C. Tanner is one of the world's leading manufacturers of corporate recognition products. Tanner has more than 2,000 employees with nearly 1,700 retirement plan participants Plan participants Employees or other beneficiaries who are eligible to receive benefits from a company's employee benefit plan. and retirement plan assets of $150 million. Last year O. C. Tanner chose Prudential Retirement Services to be its new retirement plan provider. The company had to find a way to communicate the benefits of saving for retirement and to encourage its workers to fully utilize the plan. O. C. Tanner and PRS PRS Partnership (IRB) PRS Printer (File Name Extension) PRS Paul Reed Smith (Guitar Brand) PRS Pairs (shoe industry) decided to build a program on the foundation of its well-known products and services. O.C Tanner is a pioneer in helping corporations recognize employee achievements with high-quality, symbolic awards crafted from the finest precious metals Precious Metals Valuable metals such as gold, iridium, palladium, platinum, and silver. Notes: Investing in precious metals can be done either by purchasing the physical asset, or by purchasing futures contracts for the particular metal. and gems. The company provides recognition award programs to some 10,000 companies reaching millions of employees in 166 countries. O.C. Tanner is also the Official Supplier of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games
"Prudential Retirement Services worked closely with us when designing our awareness program and based it on an Olympic theme, using the tagline, 'Go For the Gold,' " said Michael Tanner, director of Compensation and Benefits at O.C. Tanner. "The campaign symbolizes the spirit of reaching for the best - in this case, the best retirement plan," Tanner added. Colorful images of athletes in motion were used throughout each communication to help develop the plan's identity. A new logo was designed, a hybrid of the Olympic rings and the O. C. Tanner name. This theme was carried on newsletters, posters, and table tents, postcards, a banner and an enrollment kit. An important part of the campaign was the very popular "weeble" giveaways. These cute and fuzzy little creatures delivered the campaign tagline in a fun and whimsical whim·si·cal adj. 1. Determined by, arising from, or marked by whim or caprice. See Synonyms at arbitrary. 2. Erratic in behavior or degree of unpredictability: a whimsical personality. way, posed in various sporting activities, to serve as constant reminders to "Go for the Gold." The results of the campaign were impressive helping to increase total participation to 83 percent and generating positive responses from employees about the enhanced retirement program. The O. C. Tanner program is another in a long line of successful retirement educational campaigns for Prudential. During the past five years, PRS has teamed up with its clients to win 14 other awards from Pensions & Investments Magazine and The Profit Sharing/401(k) Council of America. Prudential Retirement Services provides defined contribution and benefits services for public, private and non-profit organizations, with a combination of investment management expertise, state-of-the-art recordkeeping, and comprehensive investment education programs. With more than 70 years of experience in managing retirement plans, the company today manages more than $26 billion in defined contribution and guaranteed product assets for more than one million plan participants. The Prudential Insurance Company of America, with more than $371 billion in assets under management Assets Under Management (AUM) is a term used by financial services companies in the mutual fund and money management or investment management business to gauge how much money they are managing. as of December 31, 2000, is one of the largest life insurance companies in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and is among the largest financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. institutions in the world. Prudential serves millions of individual and institutional customers worldwide and offers a variety of products and services, including life insurance, property and casualty insurance, mutual funds, annuities, pension and retirement related services and administration, asset management, securities brokerage, real estate brokerage franchising and relocation services Relocation services or "employee relocation" includes a range of internal business processes that are engaged to transfer employees (and often their families) or entire departments of a business to a new work location. . Securities products and services are distributed by Prudential Investment Management Services LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control (PIMS PIMS Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences PIMS Penalty Minutes (hockey) PIMS Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences PIMS Profit Impact of Market Strategy PIMS Project Information Management System ), Three Gateway Center, 14th Floor, Newark, NJ 07102-4077. PIMS is a Prudential company; Prudential Retirement Services is a Prudential business. |
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