Coldwell Banker Howard Perry and Walston Wins Business Leader Magazine’s Business Champions Award

Raleigh, NC, March 24, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Eb Moore, CEO of Coldwell Banker Howard Perry and Walston (www.hpw.com), has announced that the firm has won the 2008 Business Champions award presented by Business Leader Magazine. The award pays tribute to local businesses that enhance the Triangle’s workforce by creating jobs and providing essential job training. The Business Champions awards honored businesses in four categories, including: health sciences, business technologies, computers and engineering, and applied technologies. Winners were recognized at an awards luncheon on Tues., March 11 at 11 a.m. at the North Raleigh Hilton, located at 3415 Wake Forest Road.

“We are honored to win Business Leader’s Business Champions award,” said Moore. “We strive to employ and provide training to help create only the best realtors for our real estate teams in order to provide the superior services our clients have come to expect from us.”

About Coldwell Banker Howard Perry And Walston:
Howard Perry, an established builder, and Don Walston, a real estate entrepreneur, formed Coldwell Banker Howard Perry and Walston in 1972. Today the company has more than 800 real estate professionals, 13 sales offices, the area’s premier new homes division, a mortgage company, insurance services division, title company, an award-winning relocation division, a growing concierge home services division, the area’s No. 1 real estate school, and one of the state’s top real estate Web sites. The company has become the largest full-service residential real estate company in the Triangle and one of the leading realty firms in the nation, with more than 11,000 transactions a year and almost $2.5 billion in sales. In 2006 and 2007, Coldwell Banker Howard Perry and Walston was recognized as one of the 50 fastest growing private companies in the Triangle by the Triangle Business Journal. In 2007 they were named the #1 Best Place to Work in the Triangle by the Triangle Business Journal and named the #1 Coldwell Banker Company in North Carolina. In 2008, the firm received the National Coldwell Banker Golden Hammer Centennial Award for their commitment and work with Habitat for Humanity. For more information about Coldwell Banker Howard Perry and Walston visit their Web site at www.hpw.com.

Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
(919) 233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com
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