2025 Torch Winner Resources

Welcome to the exclusive resource hub for Torch Award Winners. Access tools, templates, and best practices to proudly showcase your achievement and promote your business as a recognized leader in trust and integrity.

Congratulations to our 2025 Torch Award Winners!

A special message from Steve Bernas, CEO of the BBB of Chicago and Northern Illinois, on the significance of receiving a Torch Award and how you can share this achievement with your customers, partners, and vendors.

2025 Torch Award Winner Assets

Access your exclusive winner resources below. These materials are intended solely for use by 2025 Torch Award Winners and should not be shared or used by others without authorization.

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Press Release Template

Celebrate your Torch Award win with our customizable press release template. Just download the file, fill in your details, and share your exciting news with media outlets, clients, and your community.

2025 Winner Social Media Assets

Celebrate your Torch Award win with personalized, branded social media assets! To download your unique animated files, simply click the button associated with your company logo, then share your achievement with your followers.

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Torch Award Winner Logos

Download official Torch Award Winner logos in PNG and EPS formats, available in blue, black, and white. These assets are exclusively for use by verified Torch Award winners and may be featured in presentations, websites, social media, and other winner-related materials.

How to Share Your Torch Award Achievement

It’s time to celebrate and proudly showcase your accomplishment! The following guidance offers practical ways to share your achievement with employees, customers, vendors, and the broader community - helping you maximize the recognition and impact of this prestigious honor.


Share with your employees:

  • Brief HR and employee-relations specialists about Award.

  • Put story in your internal newsletter about receiving Award.

  • Host a company watch party to celebrate and announce the Award, discuss it’s meaning and value.

  • Place mention of Award and BBB-provided video link of you receiving Award on your internal communications. 


Share with your customers/clients:

  • Send an announcement and post photos of receiving the Award via email and post on your social media channels and tag us @ChicagoBBB (BBB will provide artwork to share on your social media accounts.)
  • Sample copy: We are proud to be a winner of this year’s Annual Torch Awards. Earning this prestigious award demonstrates that a business not only embraces the high standards promoted by the BBB, but also consistently integrates and embodies those standards in its daily operations.

  • Add “BBB Torch Award Winner” to your website and in the bio section of your social media accounts.

  • Put story in your customer newsletter about receiving Award.

  • Post Press Release announcement of Award on all social media outlets.

  • Position notes of receiving BBB Torch Award on your email signature line. 


Share with your vendors/suppliers:

  • Send an announcement and brief vendor-relations personnel about Award. 


In your sales presentations:

  • Brief sales staff about Award and its meaning and value.
  • Put Torch Award logo on business cards, letterhead, print collateral.
  • Put BBB-issued news release in sales presentation.

At your company’s location and in the community:

  • Display trophy prominently at your workplace and in trade show and recruiting booth displays.
  • Purchase replicas of award for all locations.
  • Use Torch Award logo on branded information and handouts.
  • Highlight in any Board of Directors meetings.

With the news media and trade media:

  • Send news release with photo to local news media as well as to all trade/professional media and industry related bloggers and social media influencers.
  • Use Torch Award in newspaper, radio and TV and billboard advertising.