Communication Infrastructure Group Celebrates Five Year Anniversary
During recession, local public relations and marketing communications firm has experienced nearly 400 percent growth
— May 05, 2010 — While the professional services and consulting industries have been hit particularly hard by the recession over the past three years, local public relations firm Communication Infrastructure Group (CIG), LLC, has experienced steady revenues and a nearly 400 percent increase in staff size. Launched in May 2005, CIG started with one full-time and one half-time professional. Five years later, the boutique firm has grown to six full-time and two half-time associates.
This month, CIG celebrates five years in business. Founded by local communication veteran and University of Denver Adjunct Professor Karen Morales, APR, CIG specializes in high-impact, long-term public infrastructure projects, as well as the local government and education sectors. Morales, former communication director and spokesperson for the Transportation Expansion (T-REX) Project, has since grown her boutique firm from the ground up, taking on several high-profile clients and projects throughout Colorado, including RTD’s FasTracks program, Denver Water, CDOT’s I-70 Mountain Corridor project, Wheat Ridge, Longmont, Adams County and Cherokee’s redevelopment of the former Gates Rubber Factory, among many others.
Morales attributes the company’s success during the ongoing recession to two key philosophies: 1) Hire the right people; and 2) Smart growth management.
“When I decided to launch CIG in 2005, I promised myself that I would never grow the company beyond my ability to hire only the right people for both our clients and our culture,” said Morales. “During the first three years, we had the opportunity to expand exponentially, but we held back a bit to ensure we grew for the right reasons. I had a very clear picture as to how and why we would embrace growth in a way that would keep CIG true to the quality, customer service and culture we wanted to provide.”
The company plans on celebrating its five-year anniversary with past and current clients and colleagues, as well as blogging about some of the more humorous moments of the past five years at www.cig-pr.com.
CIG is a DBE, WBE and SBE certified full service public relations/involvement and marketing communications firm specializing in the high-impact fields of public infrastructure, engineering and construction, local government and education. For more information visit www.cig-pr.com or contact Karen Morales at 303-618-7031. Follow CIG on Twitter @CIG_PR.
