ATLANTA, Sept. 16, 2014
/PRNewswire/ -- PGi (NYSE: PGI), a global leader in
collaboration software and services for over 20 years, today
announced that it was awarded two Stevie Awards at The 2014
American Business Awards—gold for "Company of the Year" and silver
for its innovative iMeet app for Android™.
"We are thrilled and honored to be recognized by The American
Business Awards for our long-standing commitment to provide
innovative, simple and powerful collaboration solutions that help
our global customers improve productivity, ignite innovation and
grow their businesses," said Boland T.
Jones, PGi founder, chairman and CEO. "Congratulations and
thank you to our more than 2,100 PGi associates, who work together
to deliver the world's best virtual collaboration experience with
humility, creativity and a laser focus on customer success."
For over 20 years, PGi has given people the tools they need to
meet, collaborate and innovate. In the last five years alone, PGi
has hosted more than 1.1 billion people from 137 countries in over
250 million meetings. Today, PGi empowers over 45,000 enterprises,
including 75% of the Fortune 100™, with a collaborative
advantage.
iMeet is PGi's award-winning collaboration solution that
provides businesses with an innovative new way to do web
conferencing. With iMeet apps for desktop, iPhone®, iPad® and
Android devices, iMeet users can start or join a meeting, meet in
video and share a presentation on any device, anytime, anywhere in
the world. To learn more about iMeet and try it free for 30
days, visit pgi.com/imeet.
The American Business Awards are the nation's premier business
awards program. All organizations operating in the U.S.A. are eligible to submit
nominations—public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large
and small.
Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word for "crowned," the
trophies were presented to winners during a gala banquet on
Friday, September 12, at the Palace
Hotel in San Francisco. More than
250 nominees and their guests attended for the presentation of new
product awards, website awards, app awards and more.
This year's American Business Awards were presented at two
awards events. Awards for marketing, customer service, human
resources, and other disciplines were announced in Chicago in June. Last week's event focused on
the technology and new product awards categories.
Stevie Award winners were selected by more than 240 executives
nationwide who participated in the judging process.
Android is a trademark of Google Inc. iPad and iPhone are
trademarks of Apple, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other
countries. All trademarks of third parties referred to in this
release are the property of their respective owners.
About Premiere Global Services, Inc. │ PGi
PGi has
been a leading global provider of collaboration software and
services for over 20 years. PGi's cloud-based software applications
empower business users to connect, collaborate and share ideas and
information from their desktop, tablet or smartphone, enabling
greater productivity in the office or on the go. PGi has a global
presence in 25 countries, and its award-winning solutions
provide a collaborative advantage to over 45,000 enterprise
customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100™. In the last five
years, PGi has hosted more than 1.1 billion people from 137
countries in over 250 million virtual meetings. For more
information, visit PGi at pgi.com.
About the Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are
conferred in six programs: The American Business Awards, the German
Stevie Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards
for Women in Business, the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer
Service, and the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards. Honoring organizations
of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies
recognize outstanding performances in the workplace
worldwide. Learn more about the Stevie Awards at
www.StevieAwards.com.
Statements made in this press release, other than those
concerning historical information, should be considered
forward-looking and subject to various risks and uncertainties,
many of which are beyond our control. Such forward-looking
statements are made pursuant to the "safe harbor" provisions of the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and are made based
on management's current expectations or beliefs as well as
assumptions made by, and information currently available to,
management. A variety of factors could cause actual results to
differ materially from those anticipated in PGi's forward-looking
statements, including, but not limited to, the following factors:
competitive pressures, including pricing pressures; technological
changes and the development of alternatives to our services; market
acceptance of PGi's SaaS products, including iMeet® and
GlobalMeet®; our ability to attract new customers and to
retain and further penetrate our existing customers; our ability to
establish and maintain strategic reseller and distribution
relationships; risks associated with challenging global economic
conditions; price increases from our telecommunications service
providers; service interruptions and network downtime, including
undetected errors or defects in our software; technological
obsolescence and our ability to upgrade our equipment or increase
our network capacity; concerns regarding the security and privacy
of our customers' confidential information; future write-downs of
goodwill or other intangible assets; greater than anticipated tax
and regulatory liabilities; restructuring and cost reduction
initiatives and the market reaction thereto; our level of
indebtedness; risks associated with acquisitions and divestitures;
indemnification claims from the sale of our PGiSend business; our
ability to protect our intellectual property rights, including
possible adverse results of litigation or infringement claims;
regulatory or legislative changes, including further government
regulations applicable to traditional telecommunications service
providers and data privacy; risks associated with international
operations and market expansion, including fluctuations in foreign
currency exchange rates; and other factors described from time to
time in our press releases, reports and other filings made with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, including but not limited to
the "Risk Factors" section of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for
the year ended December 31, 2013. All
forward-looking statements attributable to us or a person acting on
our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by this
cautionary statement. We do not undertake any obligation to update
or to release publicly any revisions to forward-looking statements
contained in this press release to reflect events or circumstances
occurring after the date of this press release or the date of the
statement, if a different date, or to reflect the occurrence of
unanticipated events.
Media Contact:
Blakely
Thomas-Aguilar
(404) 262-8429
blakely.thomas-aguilar@pgi.com
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