2004 Hallmark Awards

2004 Hallmark Civic Award

Richard M. Greve

Richard Greve is a Chicago native who grew up on the South Side and attended Mt. Carmel High School and IIT. He now lives in Palos Heights with his wife, Marge. They have two daughters, Shannon and Courtney.

Rich's career in energy services spanned two decades with Johnson Controls before he formed his own business, RMG Energy Consultants, Inc. in 1994. He now brings personal attention to utility management and making heating and cooling systems efficient at prominent institutions such as Children's Memorial Hospital.

With this award, we honor Rich for his devotion to worthy causes. He has played a part in establishing several fundraisers, including the United States Olympic Golf Classic (14 yrs), the Illinois Masonic Hospital Golf Classic and the University of Chicago/Wyler Children's Hospital Golf Outing. He has also helped organize the Mt. Carmel Alumni Golf Classic, the University of Illinois International Invitational, the Dennis J. Kiley Memorial, and the Fred Garcia Schoalrship Foundation.

For more than 15 years, Rich has teed up at the Chicago Baseball Cancer Charities outing. The event tied together his passion for sports, his hometown, and making a difference for kids. Two years ago, Rich joined CBCC's committee with the intention of raising awareness of the charity. His first achievement in this role has been to successfully bring CBCC to the internet with the development of this website.

2004 Hallmark Corporate Award

Pepsi and Pepsi Americas

The Chicago Baseball Cancer Charities would like to recognize Pepsi and Pepsi Americas as this year’s recipient of the Business Sponsor Hallmark Award. Pepsi has been supporting the CBCC golf outing over the years. They have contributed generously by providing foursomes, merchandise and by refreshing our thirst out on the links with assorted Pepsi beverages.

PepsiCo is one of the world's largest food and beverage companies, with annual revenues of $27 billion. Its principal businesses include: Pepsi-Cola beverages, Gatorade sports drinks, Tropicana juices, Frito-Lay snacks, and Quaker foods. Its portfolio includes 16 brands that each generate $1 billion or more in annual retail sales. Today consumers spend about $33 billion on Pepsi-Cola beverages. Brand Pepsi and other Pepsi-Cola products – including Diet Pepsi, Pepsi-One, Mountain Dew, Slice, Sierra Mist and Mug brands – account for nearly one-third of total soft drink sales in the United States, a consumer market totaling about $60 billion. Pepsi-Cola also offers a variety of non-carbonated beverages, Tropicana, Aquafina bottled water, Lipton tea and Frappuccino ready-to-drink coffee. Pepsi-Cola provides advertising, marketing, sales and promotional support to Pepsi-Cola bottlers and food service customers. This includes some of the world's best-loved and most-recognized advertising. New advertising and exciting promotions keep Pepsi-Cola brands young.

PepsiAmericas has a broad product portfolio, with Pepsi brands having major representation in the cola, flavor and non-carbonated segments. Their product offerings have unequalled brand identity in all three of the geographic regions they serve, and continually add the brands consumers want to their portfolio.
PepsiAmericas is the second largest Pepsi bottler with operations in 18 states, Central Europe and the Caribbean. PepsiAmericas manufactures, distributes and markets a broad portfolio of Pepsi-Cola, and other national and regional brands. PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP) beneficially owns a 39 percent equity interest in PepsiAmericas.