Hanser & Associates Named Best PR Firm

 Firm is Recognized Seven Consecutive Years 

DES MOINES (August 21, 2006) – Hanser & Associates has been named “Best Public Relations Firm” in Central Iowa for the seventh consecutive years by the readers of Des Moines Business Record, Central Iowa’s business journal.

Results were announced this week by the Business Record following their annual polling. Hanser & Associates was named “Best Public Relations Firm” each year since 2000, and “Runner Up” for the honor in 1999.

"We’re honored that business leaders again this year recognize the depth and breadth of public relations services we provide,” said Ronald Hanser, APR, president and principal of West Des Moines-based Hanser & Associates, Iowa’s leading PR firm.

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ABOUT HANSER & ASSOCIATES

Hanser & Associates is an international award-winning public relations firm that helps companies build and maintain relationships with the people who are important to their future. Founded by Ronald Hanser and Bonnie Hanser in 1996, the firm is headquartered in West Des Moines, Iowa and has an office in Omaha, Neb. Hanser & Associates is nationally ranked among the top independent PR firms in Midwest cities. The firm has won nearly 40 international, national and local awards for its public relations work, including the Public Relations Society of America's "Best of Show" and two national Bronze Anvils - the "Oscars" of PR. The firm has a strategic alliance with Redstone Communications, an Omaha-based advertising agency, and the two firms share offices in Des Moines and Omaha. Hanser & Associates is equity partner in Pinnacle Worldwide, Inc., an international corporation of independently owned public relations firms with offices in more than 60 major cities and 1,200 employees in 30 countries. Visit www.hanser.com for more information.