Behan Team Wins Three Nori Awards for PR & Marketing Communications
06/14/2010
Behan Communications, Inc., the public affairs, public relations and marketing communications firm, was the recipient of three awards at the 37th annual Nori Awards ceremony hosted by The Albany Ad Club Association of Professional Communicators on Friday, June 11.
A judging panel of seven advertising and communications specialists from across the country honored the Behan team for:
• Best Public Relations Campaign for its work on behalf of GE on the Hudson River Dredging Project;
• Best Press Kit for its GE Hudson River Dredging Project media materials; and
• Best Calendar for The Colon Club 2010 Colondar, a calendar designed to generate public awareness for the symptoms of colon cancer by featuring photographs and stories of men and women who have resumed active lifestyles following colon cancer treatment before the age of 50.
Behan vice presidents Troy Burns and Joan Gerhardt, along with design assistant Dannica Greene, prepared the award-winning GE materials, with photography by Gary Gold and Kris Qua. Burns was the art director and designer of The Colondar, which features photographs by Mark McCarty.
Behan Communications, with offices in Glens Falls and Albany, provides comprehensive public, media, government and community relations and marketing communications to leading corporate and institutional clients throughout New York State and the Northeast. Our firm’s in-house creative services include graphic, Web and advertising design and video production for corporate presentations, television and the Web. Behan Communications has won more than 120 national and regional communications awards.
Behan Communications Welcomes Wyeth Exhibition to Glens Falls
06/03/2010
Behan Communications, Inc., is proud to sponsor Andrew Wyeth: An American Legend, a summer-long exhibition celebrating the genius of American artist Andrew Wyeth, at the legendary Hyde Collection museum in Glens Falls.
The exhibition runs Sunday, June 13, through Sunday, Sept. 5.
Andrew Wyeth: An American Legend is the first major showing of the late artist’s work in New York in more than a decade. The exhibition is organized by The Hyde Collection in association with the Farnsworth Art Museum of Rockport, Maine. Works include pencil, watercolor, dry brush and tempera paintings, and will feature sections devoted to early coastal watercolors and landscape paintings, as well as a look at Wyeth’s models, his interest in vernacular architecture, and his connection to both the regionalist tradition and magic realism, a genre in which dreamlike, improbable or fantastic elements appear in an otherwise traditional setting.
The core of the exhibition will comprise approximately 30 works from the Farnsworth Art Museum, including early Maine watercolors, as well other major works such as The Hyde’s own Wyeth watercolor, The Ledge and the Island, and works on loan from museums and private collections.
Wyeth, who was 91 when he died early last year in his hometown of Chadds Ford, Pa., became an American art legend as a young man, having zoomed to worldwide fame after his first solo show in New York City in 1937.
The Hyde Collection also will coordinate a series of Wyeth-related events at the museum and with other arts, cultural and community organizations.
The Hyde, which in 2009 featured a hugely popular and groundbreaking exhibition of the works of French impressionist Edgar Degas, is located at 161 Warren Street in Glens Falls. The museum is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. It is closed Mondays and for national holidays. Admission is free for museum members; a $5 donation is suggested for non-members. For more information about The Hyde or to learn more about the Wyeth exhibition, visit http://www.hydecollection.org.
Finch CEO Dick Carota Tribute: Bedrock Glens Falls
09/02/2009
Reprinted from The Chronicle -- June 18-24, 2009
By Mark Frost, Chronicle Editor
Finch, Pruyn (now Finch Paper) for most of its 144 years has been the cornerstone of Glens Falls. And Dick Carota, for much of his own 53-year career that saw him rise from boxcar sweeper to chairman and CEO, was the cornerstone of Finch, Pruyn.
So when an invitation arrived in the mail inviting my wife and me to attend a banquet titled “A Tribute to Dick Carota” at Heritage Hall in the Glens Falls Civic Center on Thursday, June 11, we replied eagerly, certain of a great and memorable evening that figured to be equal parts of praise, hilarity and heart of Glens Falls.
It delivered on all counts. Expertly produced by Behan Communications, Finch’s long-time public relations firm, the evening had Mark Behan himself as the masterful emcee.
Speeches by elected officials like Mayor Jack Diamond, State Senator Betty Little and Assemblyman Tony Jordan; by Finch’s new owners; by community members like Glens Falls Hospital President David Kruczlnicki and Glens Falls Walk to Cure Diabetes founder Tambrie Alden were the right length, frequently funny, consistently interesting and genuine.
A DVD about Mr. Carota’s life shown on large screens was excellent.
There was a good letter, too, from Gov. David Paterson, and one from U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, and remarks by an aide to Congressman Scott Murphy.
Heritage Hall never looked better. And the meal, by Sally Longo of Aunt Sally’s Catering, was tasty and served hot with remarkable efficiency.
In short it was polished affair.
Mr. Behan noted in passing that he has spoken to Mr. Carota almost daily for the past 20 years, and that it was his hiring (and prompt payment) of Behan to represent Finch that really started the firm on its way.
He said Mr. Carota’s “brains and courage and sheer force of will” propelled Finch, Pruyn’s success.
On the DVD, long-time Finch Pruyn human resource director, Gordon Angus said that Mr. Carota’s policy was that no matter if a person was “the lowest, the newest, the oldest” employee, “if they wanted to see him, they could see him.”
Fellow senior exec, Dan Gleason told of sitting alone one night at Glens Falls Hospital waiting for his wife to give birth (in the days before husbands were allowed in the delivery room) when the elevator door opened and out stepped Mr. Carota with a pile of officework in his arms. He told Mr. Gleason, given that “you’re sitting here doing nothing”, there was work he could do.
On the DVD, Kam Hoopes, one of the Pruyn family descendants, said, “Dick is the reason we got to where we were and survived as long as we did” going up against giant competitors who expected to “either buy us or put us out of business.”
Adirondack Balloon Festival organizer Walt Grishkot said, “If it wasn’t for him, we wouldn’t have had a Balloon Festival.” He told of plans to cancel the festival in 1991 for lack of funds. “I get a phone call from Mr. Carota”, who said, “You don’t have to worry, Walter. There’ll be a check in the mail for $25,000.”
On the DVD, Mr. Carota’s three sons and three granddaughters told of life on the homefront. “He showed me how to have fun in a respectful way,” said son Chris. Tim said his father would ask if anyone wanted pizza; shortly thereafter there would appear 14 pizzas “from Talk of the Town or Harvest. Then it was a big party at my house.”
They told of their father/grandfather’s passion for gadgets, from whiz-bang phones to vegetable cutters to electric razors that work under water. “When he buys,” said son Tim, “he’ll buy five so he can give them out to everybody.”
Chris said, “He’s very childlike when he gets an electric gadget in his hands.”
Union member Steve Scarselletta said, “You get Dick’s word- you can take it to the bank.”
Sam Hoopes, another Pruyn descendent, said it was just “Dick’s nature to know what to do and when to do it.”
Multiple speakers cited Mr. Carota’s company-saving feat in making Finch’s pioneering pulp digesting process finally succeed. Mr. Gleason said Mr. Carota directed the effort working seven days a week for six months, refusing to surrender until they mastered what often looked like a hopeless endeavor.
That success not only has been key to Finch’s long-term prosperity; it propelled Mr. Carota to head the corporation.
Senator Betty Little said, “He’s in my opinion the quintessential American success story.” She added, “He never hesitated to tell me what he thought of New York State and some of the needless regulations that were affecting his business.”
One dramatic shift by Finch’s new ownership two years ago was to sell the company’s vast Adirondack land holdings for which the company had seen itself as a great steward for more than a century. The new owners immediately sold those lands to the Nature Conservancy, whose Mike Carr was introduced at the dinner as “our partner and ally.” Finch retains a 20-year easement to log some of the property.
Mr. Carota’s successor as CEO, Joe Raccuia, spoke briefly. My hunch is he didn’t want to upstage his predecessor.
He said that when he headed the SCA tissue mill in South Glens Falls directly across the Hudson River from Finch, Pruyn, he told his staff, “We need to be like Finch Paper Company.”
He said that after being tapped to succeed Mr. Carota, a long conversation between the two men led to Mr. Carota’s saying he had “one question” to ask. Mr. Raccuia said his mind raced wondering what that one question would be, but it turned out he had no idea.
What Mr. Carota asked was: “How the hell could you have so many fires across the river?”
Mr. Raccuia, at the dinner, looked now in Mr. Carota’s direction and said “It’s a tissue plant, Dick!”
Tambrie Alden, founder of the Glens Falls Walk to Cure Diabetes, told of Mr. Carota’s throwing his whole force behind the launch of her event. She said the fund-raising goal in that first year was $50,000. They raised $122,635.36. She credited Mr. Carota.
His passionate support of the hospital was also cited more than once. It was noted that he was carrying on the Finch, Pruyn family tradition, that when the hospital was in financial peril, Maurice Hoopes had the “electric bill of the hospital sent to him.”
The Pruyn family stewardship of Finch, Pruyn for 142 years was singled out for an ovation.
As the evening neared a close, Mr. Behan commented, “A testimonial is so much better than a wake, Dick. Because you get the last word.”
Mr. Carota, who stayed seated all evening, said his back was ailing from planting tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, beans and cucumbers in his garden.
He said of Glens Falls Hospital that no other institution in the community touches so many people. In fact, he said, 97% of the people use the hospital. “The other 3% are D.O.A.” (dead on arrival).
It was classic, unpretentious, somewhat irreverent Dick Carota.
He thanked Finch Paper’s new ownership “for the commitment you are making to the long-term health of the company to which I committed so many years of my life.”
He spoke briefly but thanked many people, often by name, ending with family members. Then he referred to the paperback of several years ago, Life’s Little Instruction Book, noting of course that it was printed on “80-pound Finch Fine.”
Instruction #230, he pointed out, was: “Keep good company.” He said he had.
Dick Carota Announces Retirement, Joe Raccuia Named President, CEO
02/03/2009
Behan Communications' longtime client and friend Dick Carota announced his retirement this week as President and CEO of Finch Paper LLC in Glens Falls after 53 years of service to the company. Everyone at Behan wishes Dick the very best in his retirement, and welcomes new President and CEO Joe Raccuia to Glens Falls. We encourage you to read more about Dick's remarkable career and Joe's impressive accomplishments below:
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GLENS FALLS — Richard J. Carota today announced his retirement as President and CEO of Finch Paper LLC after 53 years of service to the company. Former SCA Tissue-North America President and CEO Joseph F. Raccuia of Wilton will succeed Mr. Carota as President and CEO.
Mr. Carota, 71, will continue to serve as Chairman of the Board of Finch Paper LLC and Chairman of the Board’s Executive Committee. The changes are effective immediately.
“For more than 50 years, I have had the pleasure of coming to work every day to a job I love and to professional challenges that still excite me. After my family, the people of Finch Paper have meant more to me than anything else in my life,” Mr. Carota said. “Though I will no longer have an active role in day-to-day operations of the mill, I am eager to continue working on the long-term success of this business in my capacity as Chairman.”
Andrew M. Bursky, Chairman of Atlas Holdings LLC, which co-owns Finch Paper with Blue Wolf Capital Management LLC, said, “For 25 remarkable years, Dick Carota has served Finch Paper as a gifted leader and a smart, tough and tireless competitor. The great respect and admiration Finch Paper has earned among our customers and competitors is due in no small part to Dick’s keen vision and steady hand.
“As we enter this new phase in Finch Paper’s proud papermaking history, we are fortunate and excited to have a leader with the tremendous experience, ideas and enthusiasm of Joe Raccuia to carry on the Finch traditions of quality paper and unsurpassed customer service.”
Mr. Raccuia, who worked just across the Hudson River from the Finch Paper mill for 12 years during his career with SCA and Encore Paper Company in South Glens Falls before being appointed to head SCA’s entire North American operation, said he is proud to have the opportunity to lead Finch Paper.
“Dick Carota is a legend in the American paper industry,” Mr. Raccuia said. “I look forward to building on the work he has done to keep Finch Paper highly competitive by reducing costs, making our manufacturing operations as lean and efficient as possible, enhancing product quality, and protecting our reputation as the industry’s leading provider of premium customer service.”
Mr. Carota, who in 53 years at the mill worked his way up from hourly laborer to Chairman of the Board, led the company through what has been perhaps the most pivotal quarter-century in its 144-year history. During this time, dozens of other mills closed and the U.S. paper industry, once populated by small, largely regional mills, became increasingly dominated by giant, multinational conglomerates. At the same time, the paper market became a place of fierce competition and softening customer demand.
Through Mr. Carota’s leadership, Finch Paper continues to successfully compete as a fully integrated, one-mill operation with coast-to-coast sales of premium uncoated printing papers used for advertising and marketing, book publishing and business office purposes. For his achievements, Mr. Carota was named the Paper Industry Management Association Executive of the Year in 1993.
Among his most significant accomplishments, Mr. Carota expanded Finch Paper’s market presence and product mix, developing a nationwide network of Finch Paper merchants; spearheaded the company’s entrance into the premium text and cover paper market, with the introductions of the Finch Fine and Finch Premium Blend product lines; and championed Finch Paper’s receipt of the coveted Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and Sustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI) green certifications for the company’s forestry practices and its products. He also oversaw a $20 million modernization of the company’s largest and most productive paper machine; the development of a $25 million cogeneration plant that has made the company largely energy-independent; and the $10 million conversion to an elemental chlorine-free pulp bleaching process to protect the environment.
Mr. Carota has always said his proudest and most enduring professional accomplishment came in the early 1970s as he spearheaded a complex and all-consuming project to master the company’s new and unique ammonium bi-sulfite pulping process.The company had gone in search of a new and improved pulping technology that would allow it to begin producing the premium printing papers that are its staple today. They turned to its corporate neighbor, Kamyr Inc., to develop a one-of-a-kind continuous digesting process in which both hardwoods and softwoods would be pulped together. The goal was to produce pulp with both high strength and high brightness, but the innovative process was plagued with persistent operational problems. In 1972, after many months of operation without the sulfite process actually producing pulp suitable for making paper, then-Finch, Pruyn Chairman, President and CEO Lyman Beeman selected Mr. Carota, then the youngest paper mill manager in the country at age 32, to direct all his attention to the pulp mill in an effort to correct the problems. Mr. Carota worked more than 300 days there without a day off to get the new process to run properly. He succeeded, and the high-quality pulp the mill began producing has been pivotal to the company’s subsequent success.
Most recently, Mr. Carota guided the Company through the 2007 sale of the business by its local owners, principally the descendants of founder Samuel Pruyn, to the partnership of Atlas Holdings LLC and Blue Wolf Capital Management LLC, and the subsequent sale of the company’s 160,000 acres of Adirondack forestland to The Nature Conservancy.
Mr. Raccuia brings more than 20 years of paper industry leadership experience to his new position, including six years as president and CEO of SCA Tissue-North America, the $1 billion manufacturer of 100% recycled napkin, towel and tissue products with 10 U.S. locations serving the “Away From Home” food service, commercial, industrial and healthcare industries.
He also brings a deep familiarity with the Glens Falls region: SCA’s South Glens Falls mill served as the launching pad for his SCA career. Mr. Raccuia joined the then-Encore Paper Co. mill in South Glens Falls in 1992 as regional sales manager and earned promotions to senior vice president of marketing and sales in 1995 and to president and CEO in 1998. In 2001, with the sale of Encore to SCA Global, he was named head of SCA’s North American operations.
During his tenure with SCA, Mr. Raccuia engineered a 35% growth in sales, taking the company from $750 million to $1 billion and propelling SCA to the number-two position in the U.S. Away-From-Home Market. He is recognized for his significant, strategic investments in new product development, and for his customer-focused management approach, which garnered SCA dozens of customer awards based on the company’s world-class supply chain and service excellence. Mr. Raccuia also oversaw development of a $240 million fully-integrated Greenfield tissue manufacturing facility in Alabama.
In addition to these accomplishments, Mr. Raccuia developed an industry-leading alliance with the United Steel Workers (USW) union that, according to a 2006 union publication, resulted in a “formal partnership to engage in an open and honest relationship with one another and to look out for the best interests of the business and its employees.”
“The Finch Paper brand is in demand by printers, designers, publishers and the most successful image-sensitive companies nationwide,” Mr. Raccuia said. “Finch Paper is respected for delivering premium service to its customers and real value across its product lines, and I look forward to continuing and enhancing that value for our customers for years to come. Serving the customer and understanding their needs has always been paramount to me, and will continue to be so at Finch.”
Finch Paper manufactures 250,000 tons per year of uncoated printing papers for corporate marketing materials, direct mail, book publishing and business office use. Founded in 1865 as Finch, Pruyn & Co. Inc., the Company is widely recognized for the quality of its paper, its industry-leading customer service, and its long tradition of practicing and promoting sustainable forestry in the Adirondack region of New York State. The company employs approximately 800 people with an annual payroll of approximately $40 million.
'COLONDAR' DESIGN WORK A TRIBUTE TO BURNS' LATE FATHER
The Colon Club's 2008 "Colondar" features stories of six men and seven women under the age of 50 who have survived colorectal cancer.
The fourth edition of the unique calendar was designed as the others have been, by Troy Burns, a partner and vice president of technology and design at Behan Communications.
"I do it as a tribute to my dad, Pete Burns" Mr. Burns told The Chronicle. "He died of colon cancer in July of 2004. I saw what he went through, and I wanted to make a difference."
Molly McMaster who founded the Colon Club, said Mr. Burns does all of the work for free, and also has recently joined the Colon Club board of directors.
"What doesn't Troy do" Ms. McMaster said. "He starts with throwing ideas around for how to do the photos, is onsite for the photo shoot, designs the entire calendar, touches up all the photos, and listens to my constant harassment on a daily basis, all while also serving as president of the JDRF [Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation]."
This year's "Colondar" features four-color black-and-white photos with the models' blue swimsuits isolated for maximum contrast.
"Blue is the colon cancer awareness color," Mr. Burns said, adding that the calendar has won several awards, including an American Graphic Design.
"I've told Molly, 'As long as you are doing this, I'm doing this,'" Mr. Burns said. "It's a lot of work, but a lot of fun putting it together."
Mr. Burns said the photos are taken by Mark McCarty in a temporary photo studio set up in a garage in Hulett's Landing at the home of Ms. McMaster's parents.
"We fly everyone in, and it becomes almost like a retreat for people." Mr. Burns said. "The 'Colondar' becomes almost a secondary thing. And they are so young, you really understand that this is not an old person's disease."
The 2008 "Colondars" are $15 each. Info: www.colonclub.com or www.colondar.com.
GLENS FALLS -- Behan Communications is moving its offices into the heart of downtown, said Mark Behan, the company's president and chief executive officer.
The public relations, communications and lobbying firm has leased space on the second and third floors at 86 Glen St., the brick building being renovated across from the Glens Falls Civic Center.
Behan Communications will be one of two tenants in the building, which is owned by developer Peter Hoffman.
NBT bank will be the other tenant, Hoffman said.
Behan said the move to Glen Street will provide his firm with space for a larger television and Internet video production studio, and with space to ultimately increase staff.
The firm employs 13 in Glens Falls, and three at an office in Albany.
In some respects the move to Glen Street is a return to the company's roots, Behan said.
He founded the firm in an office above the Russell & Wait business supply store on Glen Street, and later moved his offices to a renovated house on Locust Street, on the city's east side.
"We'll be in business 20 years next year," Behan said.
He expects to move to the new Glen Street offices sometime in the summer.
Behan firm & NBT Bank will locate at 86 Glen in downtown GF
11/21/2007
Reprinted from The Chronicle
Nov. 21, 2007
By Gordon Woodworth
Chronicle News Editor
Behan Communications will move into developer Peter Hoffman's 86 Glen Street building next summer, upstairs from NBT Bank, which is opening a branch complete with drive-thru banking in the 15,000-square-foot, three-story former industrial warehouse.
Mark Behan and Daniel Burke, NBT Bank's Glens Falls Region president, both said they have signed 15-year leases with Mr. Hoffman's company, Glen Street Associates.
Each firm will occupy 7,500 square feet, with Behan Communications taking the third floor and the Glen Street side the second floor, and NBT Bank taking the entire first floor and half of the second.
"Peter has a gift of looking at a non-descript warehouse like 86 Glen and seeing the potential for first-class office space," Mr. Behan said. "We have been looking for new space for a few years, one that fit our needs and for a new partner. This fits our needs perfectly."
Behan Communications employs 13 people, and the new space will be approximately double what the company has at Locust Street off Warren Street.
Mr. Burke said NBT Bank "had the same challenges" as Behan Communications in finding new office space.
"We needed parking and room for a drive-through, and land is at a premium downtown," he said. "But Peter has carved out a great spot here."
Mr. Burke said the NBT branch will employ five people, and seven bank officers will also work from here. A drive-through window and drive-up ATM will be located in the back of the building, he said.
Mr. Hoffman is planning two roof-to-ground columns of glass on the front corner of the building, which Mr. Behan said will add "special character."
Mr. Hoffman said he is using as much of the original brick and wood as possible in the rehabilitation project, and Mr. Behan said his company's offices will be open with interior glass partitions.
Mr. Hoffman and his wife Suzanne also own 100-110 Glen, 136 Glen, 140 Glen, and the Civic Center Plaza at 3 and 5 Warren Street.
He said of NBT and Behan, "Both of these companies have made long-term commitments to the City. That was one of the things that was important to me.
'We are very selective when we select tenants. We put a lot of work into buildings, doing a first-class rehab, and then we look for a tenant that will be long-term and also brings the right type of business to our properties."
Mr. Hoffman termed 86 Glen "truly the quintessential restored building. Mark and Dan recognize that and they wanted something special. They didn't just want any space. This is a very, very unique space, and these businesses will complement it very well."
The 100-year-old building once housed the first car dealership in Glens Falls, Mr. Hoffman said.
Troy P. Burns, a partner and vice president of design and technology at Behan Communications Inc., is among 20 business and community leaders honored by The Glens Falls Post-Star. Burns was chosen for the newspaper's first "20 under 40" awards honoring individuals who have made significant business and civic contributions.
Burns has led the Behan creative team to win more than 60 major marketing and design awards since 2005.
He is president of the Board of Directors of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation of the Adirondack Region. He is an active volunteer with Kids With Food Allergies and has served as chairman of Glens Falls Annual Walk to Cure Diabetes. Burns also produces The Colondar, a calendar highlighting young men and women who live with colorectal cancer.
Behan Communications Inc., has received the highest honor possible in the international Videographer Awards 2007 competition.
The firm also earned two additional Videographer honors, bringing to more than 60 the number of marketing, design and communications awards the firm has won in the last five years.
The Videographer Awards honor outstanding work by video professionals who are raising the standards of the industry with quality, creativity and resourcefulness.
All three award-winning videos can be viewed by clicking "Our Work" at the top of this page.
Behan Communications received a Videographer Award of Excellence for an online commercial produced for the Finch Paper Web site
www.finchpaper.com. The 60-second commercial promotes the printing attributes of Finch Fine premium text and cover paper.
The Behan video team also earned an:
-- Award of Distinction for the "Fund-A-Cure 2007 Video" produced for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation of the Greater Adirondack Region, and an
-- Honorable Mention for a television commercial produced for Glens Falls Hospital's Rehabilitation Center.
The Behan team responsible for producing the winning projects included Vice Presidents John Brodt and Troy Burns and Video Editor Mik Bondy.
To learn more about our video production services, please call John Brodt at (518) 792-3856 or email him at john.brodt@behancom.com.
Behan Communications, Inc., the public relations, public affairs and marketing communications firm with offices in Albany and Glens Falls, has received three honors in the international Videographer Awards 2006 competition.
The Videographer Awards honor outstanding work by video professionals who are raising the standards of the industry with quality, creativity and resourcefulness. The latest honors bring to more than 60 the number ofmarketing, design and communications awards the Behan firm has won in the last five years.
Behan Communications received The Videographer Awards of Distinction for the following projects:
-- The "Cindy's Comfort Camp" video, produced on behalf of
Glens Falls Hospital(viewable online at cindyscomfortcamp.org)
-- The C. R. Wood Cancer Center at Glens Falls Hospital
TV commercial, featuring health psychologist Dr. Gerry Florio
-- The "Fund-A-Cure 2006" video produced for the Juvenile
Diabetes Research Foundation of the Greater Adirondack Region,
in conjunction with Pepe Productions (viewable online at
behancommunications.com)
The Behan team responsible for producing the winning projects included Vice Presidents John Brodt and Troy Burns, and Video Editor Mik Bondy.
Behan Communications provides public and media relations, corporate communications, marketing, advertising design and creative services to corporate clients, non-profit institutions and community organizations. Its creative services include full Web site development and in-house video production.
Two respected local business leaders have joined the Board of Directors of the Economic Development Corporation of Warren County, EDC announced.
Mark Behan of Behan Communications and Jack Bieniek of Cool Insuring Agency, Inc. were recently elected along with a new slate of officers to serve a two-year term, beginning January 1, 2007. Daniel Burke will stay on as chairman; he is joined by David Capron, Vice Chairman; John Davidson, Treasurer; Tenee Casaccio, Secretary; and David Moynehan, Executive Committee Member.
The Warren County Standing Committee on Economic Development includes Fred Monroe, Chairman-Supervisor, Town of Chester; Richard Mason, Ward Supervisor, City of Glens Falls; Fred Champagne, Supervisor at Large, Town of Queensbury; Frank Thomas, Supervisor, Town of Stony Creek; Daniel Girard, Ward Supervisor, City of Glens Falls; Matthew Sokol, Supervisor-at-Large, Town of Queensbury; and Dan Stec, Supervisor, Town of Queensbury.
Behan, Albany Diocese Win International Fund-Raising Award
11/01/2006
ALBANY -- Behan Communications, Inc., and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany have been honored by the International Catholic Stewardship Council (ICSC) for excellence in the development of fundraising materials.
The ICSC presented its Award of Excellence in the category of Annual Appeal Brochure to the Albany Diocese's 2006 Bishop's Appeal brochure produced by Behan Communications.
The ICSC represents dioceses, archdioceses, foundations and other related Catholic organizations in eight countries. Deacon John H. Norris, a western US regional ICSC official said, "The creativity, ingenuity, and technical excellence exhibited in these materials are exciting and uplifting."
The award-winning brochure was produced by Behan Communications Vice President John Brodt and Graphic Designer Mik Bondy, working with James Kopp, executive director of stewardship and development for the Albany Diocese, and Ellen Donovan, director of the Bishop's Appeal.
The 2006 Bishop's Appeal was the most successful in the Diocese's history, raising more than $7.3 million in gifts and pledges to support a wide-range of Diocesan programs, including Catholic Charities, religious education and clergy recruitment and support.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany serves more than 400,000 Catholics in 165 parishes across 14 counties in and around the Capital Region of New York.
Behan Communications, Inc., with offices in Albany and Glens Falls, provides public and media relations, corporate communications, marketing, advertising design and creative services to corporate clients, non-profit institutions and community organizations. Its creative services include full Web site development and in-house video production.
Behan Communications Wins Four National Design Awards
09/13/2006
Behan Communications, Inc., the public relations, public affairs and advertising firm with offices in Albany and Glens Falls, has been honored with four national awards in the 2006 American Graphic Design Awards competition.
The American Graphic Design Awards, now in their 26th year, are among the most prestigious and selective in the United States. A panel of independent judges chose the Behan projects from among more than 10,000 entries submitted by public relations, marketing, advertising and design firms nationwide. Photographs of the award-winning designs are published in Graphic Design USA Annual.
The latest American Graphic Design Awards bring to more than 60 the number of marketing, design and communications awards the Behan firm has won in the last five years.
The American Graphic Design Awards were presented for four Behan projects:
- The 2006 brochure for the Albany Roman Catholic Diocese's Bishop's Appeal, the largest annual fund in the Capital Region;
- A "Welcome Kit" for new parents produced
for The Snuggery at Glens Falls Hospital;
- A series of humorous postcards created for customers of Finch, Pruyn and Co. Inc., Glens Falls;
- The 2006 brochure for the Glens Falls Hospital Foundation's Annual Fund.
The Behan team that produced the winning projects included Vice Presidents John Brodt and Troy Burns and designer Mik Bondy.
Behan Communications Inc. provides public and media relations, corporate communications, marketing, advertising design and creative services to corporate clients, non-profit institutions and community organizations. Its creative services include full Web site development and in-house video production.
Behan Communications, Inc. has won two Nori awards honoring outstanding achievement in communications and advertising.
The awards were presented at the 33rd annual dinner of the Albany Ad Club Association of Professional Communicators on May 5, 2006.
A panel of six independent judges drawn from national advertising agencies outside the Capital Region chose "Lori's Story," a brochure the Behan firm created for the Glens Falls Hospital Foundation's Annual Fund, and "The Colondar," the unique awareness-raising calendar produced to support the Colon Club's campaign to encourage early detection of colon cancer.
Behan Communications Vice Presidents John H. Brodt Jr., who developed "Lori's Story," and Troy P. Burns, who developed "The Colondar," accepted the Nori awards.
"Lori's Story" chronicles the remarkable story of Queensbury resident Lori Francett, whose life was saved by members of the Glens Falls Hospital medical staff following a sudden cardiac arrest in January 2005. The brochure highlights the critical role the hospital can play in people's lives at a moment's notice, and the importance of charitable gifts to the hospital Foundation's Annual Fund campaign. "Lori's Story" can be read in its entirety at www.glensfallshospital.org.
"The Colondar" features photographs of young women and men who have resumed an active lifestyle following treatment for colon cancer before the age of 50. It is designed to generate awareness for the symptoms of colon cancer, and to raise funds to fight the insidious disease. More information can be found at www.colonclub.com.
The Behan firm has won more than 50 national and international communications and marketing awards since 2002.
Behan Communications Inc. is a public relations, public affairs and marketing firm with offices in Albany and Glens Falls.
The firm serves leading businesses and institutions throughout New York State.
Troy Burns Named Partner In Behan Communications, Inc.
04/15/2006
Troy P. Burns has been named a partner in Behan Communications, Inc., the public relations, public affairs and marketing firm with offices in Glens Falls and Albany.
Burns, a vice president of the firm and its chief creative officer, leads Behan Communications' creative staff in the design of print and digital advertising campaigns, marketing materials, annual reports and Web sites. Under Burns' leadership, Behan Communications has won more than 50 national marketing and communications awards since 2002.
Burns joined Behan Communications in 1992 after a career as a newspaper editor and designer with The Post-Star in Glens Falls. He joins Behan Communications' founder and president Mark L. Behan and vice president John H. Brodt Jr. as shareholders in the firm.
Burns and his wife, Janet, and their three children live in Queensbury. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Northeast New York Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
Behan Communications Inc. provides strategic public relations, public affairs and marketing services to major businesses and organizations throughout Upstate New York. Its offices are located at 33 Elk St., Albany, N.Y., and 13 Locust St., Glens Falls, N.Y.
