{"id":3719,"date":"2020-11-25T09:22:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T14:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stevenslee.com\/sesesop\/?p=3719"},"modified":"2026-07-20T09:32:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:32:45","slug":"congratulations-to-our-clients-on-winning-annual-awards-for-communications-excellence-from-the-esop-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stevenslee.com\/sesesop\/news\/congratulations-to-our-clients-on-winning-annual-awards-for-communications-excellence-from-the-esop-association\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to our Clients on Winning Annual Awards for Communications Excellence from The ESOP Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SES ESOP Strategies would like to congratulate and recognize our clients\u2019 hard work that led to awards in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/esopassociation.org\/awards\/the-aace-awards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2020 Annual Awards for Communications Excellence<\/a>\u00a0from The ESOP Association.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gisinc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Geographic Information Services, Inc.<\/a>\u00a0(GIS) won for Total Communications by an ESOP company with fewer than 250 employees, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvlnet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DVL Group<\/a>\u00a0was runner-up in the same category. Also, our client\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.folience.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Folience<\/a>\u00a0garnered two honors as Todd Bransky was named Employee Owner of the Year and Daniel Goldstein, President and CEO of Folience, was named Outstanding Member of the Board of Governors for his work with the Iowa\/Nebraska Chapter of The ESOP Association. SES ESOP Strategies\u2019 client\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fishertank.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fisher Tank Company<\/a>\u00a0won for best video among small ESOP companies. In addition, GIS was a runner-up for best Series of Events and DVL took the runner-up position in the Intranet category.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These are impressive accomplishments and we are very proud of our ESOP clients.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esopassociation.org\/sites\/tea-master\/files\/2020-11\/Judges%20Comments.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Read the<\/strong><\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/esopassociation.org\/sites\/tea-master\/files\/2020-11\/Judges%20Comments.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">full list of award winners and the judges\u2019 comments here.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SES ESOP Strategies would like to congratulate and recognize our<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.1 - 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