Philip Morris International Inc. (PMI) (NYSE: PM) and Rosetta
Stone Inc. (NYSE: RST) today announced that the World Language
Learning program at Philip Morris International won a coveted 2020
Brandon Hall Group Gold award for excellence in the Best Results of
a Learning Program category and a Gold award for excellence in the
Best Unique or Innovative Learning and Development Program
category. The winners are listed at
http://www.brandonhall.com/excellenceawards/past-winners.php.
PMI’s World Language Learning program, provided by Rosetta
Stone, serves a diverse workforce of 77,000 employees, across 100+
countries, speaking 80+ languages. The program was designed to
consolidate multiple language learning providers and shift learning
from face-to-face to online learning, saving the company c.$2
million per year. The Rosetta Stone offering provides PMI employees
with a solution that is equally available across many workplace
types (office, factory, laboratory, home or field based), and
scalable for many diverse employee needs, including access to
instructor-led coaching to enable employees to practice and improve
their language learning. The program also serves PMI’s expatriate
employees and their accompanying family members when they relocate
to a live and work in a different country.
“By coming together with Rosetta Stone to deploy an online world
language training solution, each year we realize massive savings to
reinvest in PMI’s transformation. At the same time, we are making
language learning accessible for all colleagues everywhere,” said
Mike Gower, Head of Capability & Supplier Management at
PMI.
“Organizations around the world highly value Brandon Hall Group
Excellence Awards – so much so that we received a record number of
applications in the middle of a global pandemic,” said Rachel
Cooke, Brandon Hall Group COO, and leader of the HCM Excellence
Awards Program. “The awards provide valuable recognition and
validation of best practices in all areas of HCM at a time when
they have never been more important to both employers and
employees.”
Award entries were evaluated by a panel of veteran, independent
senior industry experts, Brandon Hall Group analysts and executives
based upon the following criteria: fit the need, design of the
program, functionality, innovation and overall measurable
benefits.
Excellence Awards winners will be honored at Brandon Hall
Group’s HCM Excellence Conference, January 26-28, 2021, at the
Hilton West Palm Beach, Florida. Select winners also will serve as
presenters in breakout sessions, sharing their leading practices
during the conference.
“The Excellence Awards serve the critical function of
reinforcing the essential business benefit of creating great
experiences for candidates and employees,” Brandon Hall Group CEO
Mike Cooke said. “All award winners must demonstrate that their HCM
programs drive bottom-line business results. That’s what sets our
awards program apart from all others.”
Philip Morris International: Delivering a Smoke-Free
FuturePhilip Morris International (PMI) is leading a
transformation in the tobacco industry to create a smoke-free
future and ultimately replace cigarettes with smoke-free products
to the benefit of adults who would otherwise continue to smoke,
society, the company, and its shareholders. PMI is a leading
international tobacco company engaged in the manufacture and sale
of cigarettes, as well as smoke-free products and associated
electronic devices and accessories, and other nicotine-containing
products in markets outside the United States. In addition, PMI
ships a version of its IQOS Platform 1 device and its consumables
authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to Altria
Group, Inc. for sale in the U.S. under license. PMI is building a
future on a new category of smoke-free products that, while not
risk-free, are a much better choice than continuing to smoke.
Through multidisciplinary capabilities in product development,
state-of-the-art facilities, and scientific substantiation, PMI
aims to ensure that its smoke-free products meet adult consumer
preferences and rigorous regulatory requirements. PMI’s smoke-free
IQOS product portfolio includes heat-not-burn and
nicotine-containing vapor products. As of June 30, 2020, PMI
estimates that approximately 11.2 million adult smokers around the
world have already stopped smoking and switched to PMI’s
heat-not-burn product, available for sale in 57 markets in key
cities or nationwide under the IQOS brand. For more information,
please visit www.pmi.com and www.pmiscience.com.
About Rosetta Stone Inc.Rosetta Stone Inc. (NYSE: RST) is
dedicated to changing people's lives through the power of language
and literacy education. The company's innovative digital solutions
drive positive learning outcomes for the inspired learner at home
or in schools and workplaces around the world.
Founded in 1992, Rosetta Stone's language division uses advanced
digital technology to help all types of learners read, write and
speak more than 30 languages, including several endangered
languages. Lexia Learning, Rosetta Stone's literacy education
division, was founded more than 30 years ago and is a leader in the
literacy education space. Today, Lexia helps students build
fundamental reading skills through its rigorously researched,
independently evaluated, and widely respected instruction and
assessment programs.
For more information, visit www.rosettastone.com. "Rosetta
Stone" is a registered trademark or trademark of Rosetta Stone Ltd.
in the United States and other countries.
About Brandon Hall Group
Brandon Hall Group is an HCM research and advisory services firm
that provides insights around key performance areas, including
Learning and Development, Talent Management, Leadership
Development, Talent Acquisition and HR/Workforce Management.
With more than 10,000 clients globally and 25 years of
delivering world-class research and advisory services, Brandon Hall
Group is focused on developing research that drives performance in
emerging and large organizations, and provides strategic insights
for executives and practitioners responsible for growth and
business results.
Our mission: Empower excellence in organizations around
the world through our research and tools each and every day.
At the core of our offerings is a Membership Program that
combines research, benchmarking and unlimited access to data and
analysts. The Membership Program offers insights and best practices
to enable executives and practitioners to make the right decisions
about people, processes, and systems, coalesced with analyst
advisory services which aim to put the research into action in a
way that is practical and efficient.
(www.brandonhall.com)
Andrea Riggs
Rosetta Stone Communications
ariggs@rosettastone.com
917-572-5555
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