The National Agri-Marketing Association (NAMA), the largest professional association for professionals in marketing and agribusiness, announced winners of the national Best of NAMA Awards competition in Kansas City, Mo., presenting four awards to Harvest PR for its work with Pear Bureau Northwest.

Harvest PR received top honors in the news release category for its entry, “Pears make splash as fresh cocktail flavor in 2007.” Additionally, Harvest PR received second-place awards for best Web site, media relations program and consumer-directed PR program.

Harvest PR added two new employees, Erin Griffin and Kate Bugher. Griffin joins Harvest PR as an account executive, bringing a passion for purposeful marketing from her previous post at Goodwill Industries in Tacoma, Wash. Bugher joins the boutique as studio manager, putting into practice use the skills she honed in internships with such PR powerhouses as Fleishman-Hillard and Cision.