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PATNA, India, October 7, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

- Advantage Adds Another Feather in its Cap - Represents India Globally at the Global SABRE Awards 2015

- Advantage Services Chosen to be Amongst the 40 Best PR Agencies of the World at the Global SABRE Awards, 2015

- The 40 Best Public Relations Campaigns in the World to Receive Trophies at the Annual Global Public Relations Summit in Miami on 28th October, 2015

Patna-based PR Agency Advantage Services is set to receive top honours at the Global PR Summit for the huge success of its "Tobacco Free Bihar" drive conducted last year on behalf of Cancer Awareness Society/ CTFK. The annual summit will be held at Miami in the United States of America from October 26-28. According to Paul Holmes, publisher and CEO, The Holmes Report: "The Global SABRE winners were selected as the "best of the best". Close to 5,000 entries were received in the North America, EMEA, Asia-Pacific and Latin American awards competitions this year, and of those campaigns just 40 were selected to receive the Global SABRE awards." And Advantage Services is one of them. It is going to represent India globally. It is indeed a moment of pride for our state as well as for the country. However, the winners will be formally announced next week.

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Advantage Services, CEO, Mr. Khurshid Ahmad said, "We are extremely thrilled with this remarkable achievement which is also by far the biggest honour conferred upon us in our 23 years of experience. It has helped carve a niche for ourselves in the PR industry. We are truly humbled and equally overwhelmed. We are thankful to SABRE and PRCAI for recognizing our talents and to provide us with a global platform to showcase our work. The entire credit goes to Team Advantage. Even before we could sit back and give ourselves the congratulatory pat on our backs, the elating news came that our entry has also been selected as the Global SABRE Award Winner!"

Those involved in the campaign included Mr. TP Sinha, National President, Cancer Awareness Society, Dr, AA Hai, National Vice-President, Mr. DB Gupta, Dr. Ravi Shankar Singh, Zonal Director, PARAS HMRI Hospital, Dr. Shekhar Kesari, Mr. Purushottam Varma, Mr. Parwez Khan and Ms. Jaspreet Kaur and Mr. Gaurav Gupta (CTFK).

The Global SABRE Awards recognize the 40 best public relations programmes of the past year, from around the globe, selected from among the winners of our regional competitions.

The competition attracted more than 5,000 entries from at least 60 countries of the world. The winners of the Global awards are considered to be the elite of the elite, representing best practice in categories ranging from social media to social responsibility, from public affairs to employee communications.

They will be recognized at an awards gala on the evening of October 28, which will also celebrate the Holmes Report's 2015 Global Agencies of the Year.

The 40 Best PR Agencies from all over the world that made it to the finals for their campaigns include: "Banking giant SBI wins over Indian millennials" for State Bank of India by Adfactors PR Pvt. Ltd., "Tobacco Free Bihar" for Cancer Awareness Society/CTFK by Advantage Services, "Speak Out Against Domestic Violence" for AVON by All Channels Communication Group, "Serving the UK" for McDonald's UK by Blue Rubicon, "The Gas Station that Cares - A Better Road Home" for Sinopec Group by Brunswick Group, "Are you Klaus-Heidi?" for Lufthansa by Burson-Marsteller, "Atlanta Hawks Play it Forward Against Racism" for Atlanta Hawks by Edelman, "Art & Heart" for Mercedes-Benz Korea by Ketchum Korea, "The Autocomplete Truth" for UN Women by Memac Ogilvy Public Relations Dubai, "Great Chinese Names for Great Britain" for Visit Britain by Ogilvy Public Relations (Beijing).

Advantage Services had already bagged three awards - one platinum and two gold awards - for its public education campaign, at the South Asia SABRE Awards ceremony held in Mumbai recently and then entered the competition for the Asia-Pacific SABRE Awards held in Hong Kong where it had to compete with four other contenders under the Not-for-Profit category. And now it has been chosen to be awarded in the final level going to be held in Miami.

About SABRE Awards:  

The world's biggest PR awards programme that recognizes the best PR work all over the world.

About PRCAI:  

The Public Relations Consultants Association of India aims to further the cause of the PR industry in the country and support budding communications professionals. It is the Indian PR industry's flagship trade association and a forum for government and public bodies, industry and trade associations to confer with public relations consultants through one body.

About Advantage Services:  

Advantage Services has been operational in Bihar and Jharkhand for over 23 years and has established its credentials as the first among equals in the field of communication and PR.

Media Contact:
Pragya Shanker
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Sr. Executive
Advantage Services