"KB Home is honored to receive this prestigious
award which recognizes the hard work, dedication and expertise of our
entire company," said KB Home Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Bruce Karatz. "Our continued success is the result of the innovative
efforts of our employees, who collectively understand and enthusiastically
support our mission of building quality homes and relationships, while
providing unmatched service and achieving high customer satisfaction. We
take great pride in our reputation as being a true leader in the
homebuilding industry and appreciate the same acknowledgement throughout
the entire business world."
2004 marks the second year KB Home has been honored by the American
Business Awards. Last year Wendy Marlett, Sr. Vice President of Marketing,
won the Stevie for Best Marketing Executive. This year more than 800
nominations from companies of all sizes and a variety of industries were
submitted in consideration for over 40 Stevie award categories.
"Being named Best Overall Company is the highest honor because it
recognizes the entire organization," said Michael Gallagher, founder
and president of The Stevie Awards, the organization that runs The
American Business Awards. "KB Home's diverse product offering,
innovative marketing, strong customer service and dedicated employees make
it the highly successful company that it is today."
Members of the Awards' Board of Distinguished Judges & Advisors and
their staffs selected Stevie winners from among the finalists. The Board
includes business luminaries such as Rich Karlgaard, publisher of Forbes,
marketing gurus Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, best-selling author and
business guru Tom Peters, Anthony Robbins, chairman & CEO of The
Anthony Robbins Companies, Drew Schutte, publisher of Wired Magazine, and
Donald Trump, chairman, president and CEO of The Trump Organization.
About The Stevie Awards
Hailed as "the business world's own Oscars" by the New York
Post (September 22, 2002), Stevie(TM) Awards are conferred in two
programs: The American Business Awards and The International Business
Awards. Honoring companies of all types and sizes and the people behind
them, the Stevies recognize outstanding leadership, innovation,
perseverance, creativity, teamwork, and integrity through more than 40
categories. The second annual American Business Awards -- nicknamed The
Stevies from the Greek word for "crowned" -- were presented at a
nationally-broadcast awards ceremony in New York City on May 10, 2004. The
program is overseen by a Board of Distinguished Judges & Advisors,
which includes leading business executives, authors, and academics.
Sponsors of the 2004 American Business Awards include the
BusinessTalkRadio Network, Digipict, Hoover's Online, Inc. Magazine,
Miller Heiman, the Professional Society for Sales & Marketing
Training, Selling Power Magazine, Speedera Networks, Ultimate Software,
Webcast in a Box, and Wired Magazine. Learn more about The Stevie Awards
at www.stevieawards.com.
About KB Home
Building homes for nearly half a century, KB Home is one of America's
premier homebuilders with domestic operating divisions in the following
regions and states: West Coast -- California; Southwest -- Arizona, Nevada
and New Mexico; Central -- Colorado, Illinois and Texas; and Southeast --
Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Kaufman & Broad
S.A., the Company's majority-owned subsidiary, is one of the largest
homebuilders in France. In fiscal 2003, the Company delivered 27,331 homes
in the United States and France. It also operates KB Home Mortgage
Company, a full-service mortgage company for the convenience of its
buyers. Founded in 1957, KB Home is a Fortune 500 company listed on the
New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "KBH." For more
information about any of KB Home's new home communities, call
1-888-KB-HOMES or visit the Company's Web site at www.kbhome.com.
For further information please contact: Kate Mulhearn of KB Home,
+1-310-231-4147, kmulhearn@kbhome.com
SOURCE KB Home
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