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Chicago, IL - March 2, 2010 - Blitz Group LLC co-founder Trish Hoffman is a finalist for the 2010 Juli B Style Award for Marketing/PR in the Midwest.
Juli B Style Awards are given annually to preeminent businesses, people, services and products with exceptional style across America.
"The fact that one of my clients nominated me for this Juli B Style Award makes this a very special honor,” said Trish Hoffman, who after a decade as a television news anchor started her own boutique media company.. "I read Juli B regularly and with my busy schedule, it keeps me up to date on fashion, the best restaurants and events."
The Juli B Style Awards are part of julib.com, which is part of Modern Luxury magazine. JuliB.com is the most widely read free lifestyle and luxury e-mail magazine in the country, with over 700,000 subscriptions worldwide. Local editions include New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Paris, London, Miami, Dallas, Houston, Boston, San Diego, San Francisco, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Orange County and the Hamptons.
To vote for Trish, register at Julib.com.
About Blitz Group LLC
Blitz Group is an award-winning, strategic, results-oriented publicity and media relations company. Founded by two broadcast journalists, Blitz Group understands the news process inside-and-out, and what makes a story a story. As a media strategist, Blitz helps clients develop and organize publicity programs and create media pitches to achieve a wide range of goals from growing a business, to maintaining a reputation, to creating an image or promoting a corporate or charity event. In addition to its media strategy services, Blitz has a separate division that works on television show development and production. For more information, please visit our website www.blitzgroupllc.com.
About Trish Hoffman
Trish Hoffman is co-founder of Blitz Group, a boutique media company. She is a co-host and feature reporter for High School Football America and appears in the upcoming film, "Under New Management". Trish is an executive producer, volunteer and avid cook. Trish has won awards in journalism, publicity/public relations and was named a "National Volunteer of the Year" by the Junior League of Chicago and is a member of the Screen Actor's Guild.
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Chicago, IL – February 5, 2010 - Blitz Group co-founder and award-winning volunteer Trish Hoffman, who is a Primo Center for Women and Children board member, has secured two unique items that are being auctioned-off on CharityBuzz.com to raise money for the center.
Bidders can go to www.charitybuzz.com to make an offer on a 7-Night stay at Villa Amanecer located in the exclusive The Bay of Dreams residential community in Baja California Sur where houses range in price from $10 million to $75 million or a personal horoscope chart reading by world-renowned astrologist Susan Miller in New York City.
Villa Amanecer is a four-suite luxury villa that boasts an unobstructed 180-degree view of the Sea of Cortez. The big package includes a 7-Night Stay with one deep sea fishing excursion, a round of golf at the famous Tom Doak course, a personal cook during the stay and transportation to-and-from the airport.
Susan Miller, who rarely does personal one-on-one sessions for the general public, will meet the lucky winner of the auction at the posh St. Regis Hotel in New York City for High Tea. Miller, who is the founder of AstrologyZone.com, has nearly six million unique readers a month on her website.
Proceeds from both auctions go to the Primo Center for Women and Children.
About Primo Center for Women and Children
PCWC is a non-profit, 501 (c) (3) an interim housing program for mothers and their children located in the West Garfield neighborhood of Chicago. The center’s “LessHomeless” campaign is creating effective solutions to bring an end to family homelessness. For more information, please visit our website at www.primocenter.org.
About Susan Miller
Susan Miller is the founder, owner and editor of AstrologyZone.com, a website she started in 1995 that now generates 18 million page views a month, and is read by 6 million unique readers each month. Susan is the author of six books, including her favorite, Planets and Possibilities (Warner Books). She is currently contributing editor to Elle (USA) and to Vogue (Japan), W (Korea) and Tempo (Turkey).
About Villa Amanecer
Villa Amanecer de los Suenos is a four-suite luxury villa that boasts an unobstructed 180-degree view of the Sea of Cortez. It is located in the Bahia de los Sueños – The Bay of Dreams – the most exclusive residential community in Baja California Sur where houses range from anywhere between $10 million and $75 million. Besides its stunning natural beauty, the Bay of Dreams is known for world-class sport fishing and diving.
About Trish Hoffman
Trish Hoffman is the co-founder of Blitz Group, a boutique media company. In addition to being an award-winning journalist, Trish has won awards in the field of public relations, plus she was named the Junior League's National Volunteer of the Year. She recently became a member of the Screen Actors Guild for her role in the movie "Under New Management".
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Blitz Group Chosen Media Consultant For Sale of Home Next-Door to President Obama's Chicago Residence
Chicago, IL – September 15, 2009 – Trish Hoffman, Founder of Blitz Group LLC, is proud to announce that the Coldwell Banker-Matt Garrison Group has chosen her firm to be the exclusive media consultant for the sale of 5040 South Greenwood Avenue in Chicago, which is right next-door to President Barack Obama’s home in Chicago’s Kenwood neighborhood.
The gracious, turn-of-the-century home has 17-rooms and sits on an oversized lot that is situated directly next to 5046 South Greenwood, President Obama’s Chicago residence. This historic pocket of Kenwood has long been home to Chicago’s business, political and intellectual elite, boasting some of the largest and ornate residences in Chicago.
“This is a one-of-a-kind property that we are marketing unlike any property in the world, and that’s why we chose Blitz Group,” said Matt Garrison, Managing Director of the Coldwell Banker-Matt Garrison Group. “Trish Hoffman and her partner Jeff Fisher are former television anchors who truly understand the national and international media landscape. Blitz Group will help us make sure that every possible buyer in the world knows about this property through the media.”
“It’s an honor to be chosen to represent Matt’s firm as well as the owners of the property,” said Trish Hoffman, Partner, Blitz Group LLC. “It isn’t very often that someone gets the opportunity to sell a home for a client who lives next-door to a sitting president, but that’s the situation we have with the sale of 5040 South Greenwood. We will insure the placement of this story with our deep bench of national and international media contacts to make sure the opportunity to live next to the First Family is exposed to everyone in the world.”
To learn more about this property, visit www.5040greenwood.com.
About Blitz Group LLC
Blitz Group is an award-winning, strategic, results-oriented publicity and media relations company. Founded by two broadcast journalists, Blitz Group understands the news process inside-and-out, and what makes a story a story. We make it our business to learn everything about our client’s business. We skillfully translate that knowledge into placement through well-crafted hooks and storylines that go beyond writing news releases. For more information go to our website www.blitzgroupllc.com or call 312-805-4314.
About Matt Garrison Group
The Matt Garrison Group is an elite, full service marketing team within Coldwell Banker. Since 2003, the Matt Garrison Group has generated almost 500 million dollars in residential sales, almost exclusively in Chicago's hot and emerging neighborhoods. Its business strategy is to connect the best people to the best real estate venture. With a total focus on creative, outside the box marketing, fierce representation and superb customer service, the Matt Garrison Group is poised to continue its unsurpassed growth one client at a time. For more information visit www.mattgarrisongroup.com or call 773-772-1234. For information on 5040 South Greenwood Avenue visit www.5040greenwood.com.
____There will be two rounds of competition. The first round is the elimination round in which each competitor gets one attempt to pass, punt and kick. The distance (in yards) from each attempt will be totaled to determine the finalists. The top 10 from each age group will move-on to the championship finals in the afternoon. Those finals will follow the same format of one pass, punt and kick for each competitor.
Award medals will be given to the top three finishers in each age category. All competitors will receive a free t-shirt, plus free breakfast and lunch.
“Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza is paying tribute to the area’s rich football history by hosting this first-ever Punt, Pass & Kick competition,” said Jeff Fisher, Partner at Blitz Group, LLC, who is the event’s creator and co-sponsor, plus serves as the mall’s media strategist. “We want to thank our sponsors Fatburger, Gatorade, Home Depot and KJLH Radio for taking part in the competition. This will become an annual event that will nurture and promote the great, future athletes of tomorrow from the local community.”
The competitors will also receive a treat when former NFL players Derek Tennell (Cowboys, Browns, Lions & Vikings) and Darrell Rideaux (Colts) will speak to them during the lunch break.
Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, located at the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. and Crenshaw Boulevards is home of Macy’s, Wal-Mart, Sears, Magic Johnson Theaters, TJ Maxx and over 115 stores and restaurants. For more information, please visit our website at www.crenshawplaza.com.
About BHCP Kids
BHCP Kids is Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza’s education and health initiative. BHCP Kids sponsors over ten
events during the school year for our nine participating elementary schools. The program has donated
over $16,000 to local elementary schools through the Shop to Help Your School program, plus provided services
such as free dental check-ups and free fingerprinting programs.
About Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza
Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, the oldest regional shopping center in America, opened in November 1947 in Los Angeles, California as the Broadway-Crenshaw Center with 550,000 square feet and 13 acres of parking. Back in 1947 the mall was anchored by a Broadway department store, Woolworth variety store, and Von's supermarket. In 1988 BHCP received a facelift increasing in size to 850,000 square feet.
About Blitz Group LLC
Blitz Group is an awarding-winning, strategic, results-oriented publicity and media relations company. Founded by two broadcast journalists, Blitz Group understands the news process inside-and-out, and what makes a story a story. As a media strategist, Blitz helps clients develop, organize and executive publicity programs with creative media pitches. In addition to its media strategy services, Blitz has a separate division that works on television show development and production. For more information, please go to our website at www.blitzgroupllc.com or call 312-805-4314.
Trish Hoffman 312-805-4314
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Trumpet Award at the Publicity Club of Chicago’s 49th Annual Golden Trumpet Awards held May 9, 2008 at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago.
Blitz Group won the Silver Trumpet for distinguished achievement in public relations in the field of community relations for its creation of the RedHot Midnight Kiss fundraiser benefiting the Primo Center for Women and Children (PCWC), a 120-transitional shelter for women and children on the west side of Chicago.
The inaugural RedHot Midnight Kiss was held August 18, 2007 and featured Hollywood’s Carmen Electra. The event, held at Bon V nightclub, raised over $150,000 for Primo Center and featured Blitz Group LLC, Bon V, CS Magazine, Capri Capital Partners LLC, Dealmaker LLC, Harry Caray’s Restaurant, NBC 5, Pagliuco Design, Prime Group, 10 Cane Rum and Tsuki Sushi as sponsors.
“This is quite an honor for Blitz Group and our entire RedHot Midnight Kiss Host Committee that worked so hard to make our first year such a success,” said Trish Hoffman, Blitz Co-Founder and creator and chair of RedHot Midnight Kiss. “We had top notch sponsors who believed in the cause from the very start, and that gave us a great springboard to raising money and awareness about the problem of homeless women and children, which is the fastest growing segment of the homeless population.”
Nearly 500 public relations and communications professionals and their clients attended the awards ceremony, which annually honors distinguished individual achievement of public relations and other communications professionals. All awards entries were evaluated earlier this year by leading Chicago-area public relations executives, who selected “the best of the best.”
About Blitz Group LLC
About RedHot Midnight Kiss
RedHot Midnight Kiss is the summer red carpet celebrity fundraising event benefiting the Primo Center for Women and Children. For more information about RedHot Midnight Kiss and other RedHot events, please call Trish Hoffman at 312-805-4314 or check our website at www.redhotmidnightkiss.com.
Chicago, IL – May 2, 2008 - As part of National Volunteer Week, the Junior League of Chicago (“JLC”) is please to announce that Trish Hoffman has been named one of its National Volunteers of the Year.
Ms. Hoffman has been honored for her contribution to the Junior League as a Sustaining Member and for her support of women and children’s causes. Trish created the Primo Center Project, a partnership between the Primo Center for Women and the Junior League of Chicago. The Primo Center for Women and Children (“PCWC”) is a 120-day homeless shelter located on the west side of Chicago.
The JLC/Primo Center Project focuses on assisting moms how to write a resume, search for a job, what to wear to job interviews and how to create healthy eating habits for their families.
“It’s a great honor to be recognized as someone making a difference,” said Hoffman, who’s been a member of Junior League for 15-years and on the Primo Center Board of Directors since 2000. “When you look in the faces of the moms and kids at the Primo Center, it’s easy to help those families acquire the skills and resources necessary for their future independent living. I’m happy that I have been able to bring these two wonderful organizations together to do something that changes the lives of others.”
In addition to creating the JLC/Primo Center project, Ms. Hoffman has created two fundraisers that support PCWC. She founded and chairs the award-winning RedHot Midnight Kiss, an event that raised nearly $150,000 for the center in 2007, and co-founded the RedHot Greens Charity Golf Classic. Trish has also played a major role in launching the Primo Center’s $7 million Capital Campaign with the goal of establishing PCWC as the preeminent shelter for homeless women in Chicago and become a model for centers around the country.
Hoffman is the Co-Founder of Blitz Group LLC, a Chicago-based boutique media company and a member of the Screen Actor’s Guild. Trish lives in Chicago.
About Junior League of Chicago
Women building better communities. That's the Junior League. The Junior League has been the driving force behind the kinds of initiatives and institutions that make our community a healthier, more vital place to live. Junior League members, reflecting a wide range of backgrounds, interests, and professional pursuits work together to identify unmet needs, forge effective coalitions, and work for change. Time and time again, the Junior League is among the first organizations to step up to the plate and tackle a community’s biggest challenges. We are an organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women, and improving communities through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. Our purpose is exclusively educational and charitable. We reach out to women of all races, religions and national origins who demonstrate an interest in and commitment to voluntarism. For more info go to our website www.jlchicago.org.
About Primo Center for Women and Children
PCWC is a non-profit, 501 (c) (3), 120-day transitional homeless center located in the West Garfield neighborhood of Chicago. PCWC is a national role model, because of its unique living conditions that feature private and semi-private rooms for moms and their kids. Families are assigned and receive counseling, support services, job training and education. For more information you can contact PCWC at www.primocenter.org.
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RedHot Midnight Kiss Featuring Carmen Electra Raises over $150,000 for Primo Center for Women and Children
Chicago, IL – August 20, 2007 - Quintin E. Primo III, Chairman of the Primo Center for Women and Children, has announced that the first annual RedHot Midnight Kiss featuring Carmen Electra raised over $150,000 for the 120-day transitional center for homeless mothers and children located in the Austin and Garfield neighborhoods on the west side of Chicago. The August 18, 2007 Red Carpet VIP party was held at Bon V, a west loop nightclub located at 1100 West Randolph.
“It was exciting to have Carmen be involved with raising money for our special families,” said Quintin E. Primo III, Chairman of the Primo Center for Women and Children. “In addition to raising some much needed funds for the center, the event that was created by Event Chair Trish Hoffman also created dialogue on the problem of homeless women and children in this country, which is the fastest growing segment of the homeless population in America.”
“I can’t say enough about our RedHot Midnight Kiss Host Committee, which worked day and night to raise $100,000.” said Trish Hoffman, Co-chair of the event and Primo Center for Women and Children, member of Board of Director’s. “However, just as important is that over 600 people who attended the event were exposed to the seriousness of the homeless problem facing mothers and their children in this country. I am just so pleased that Carmen and a long list of sponsors came on-board to help our effort.”
“It’s very important to help people in need,” said Carmen Electra, who in May released her latest book ‘How To Be Sexy’. “Giving back is something that has been important throughout my career, and that’s why I was so pleased to be associated with the Primo Center for Women and Children.”
RedHot Midnight Kiss featuring Carmen Electra is the sister event of the RedHot Gala which raised over $400,000 and celebrates its sixth year in October 2007.
About RedHot Midnight Kiss
RedHot Midnight Kiss is the summer fundraising event for the Primo Center for Women and Children. It is the sister event of the RedHot Gala, which is held every October. For more information about RedHot Midnight Kiss and other RedHot events, please call Trish Hoffman at 312-805-4314 or check our website at www.redhotmidnightkiss.com.
About Primo Center for Women and Children
PCWC is a non-profit, 501 (c) (3), 120-day transitional homeless center located in the West Garfield neighborhood of Chicago. PCWC is a national role model, because of its unique living conditions that feature private and semi-private rooms for moms and their kids. Families are assigned and receive counseling, support services, job training and education. For more information you can contact PCWC at www.primocenter.org.
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