Fort Lauderdale, Fla. — Aug. 15, 2025 — Durée & Company – an award-winning full-service public relations and marketing firm – was awarded Fort Lauderdale Magazine’s Best PR Agency of 2025 award in the gold category for the third consecutive year. Founded in 1999 by Durée Ross, who was born and raised in South Florida, Durée & Company proudly celebrates 25 years in business in 2025. Ross has built a reputation in South Florida and beyond as a fearless and forward-thinking leader.
Fort Lauderdale Magazine polls the Fort Lauderdale community to select the best businesses and organizations in the area. More than 20,000 votes were cast to determine the winners of the “Best of Fort Lauderdale 2025” awards. Durée & Company is recognized in a special print and online section of Fort Lauderdale Magazine’s August edition. The award reflects Durée & Company’s deep roots in the Fort Lauderdale community, its commitment to serving its clients with the highest standards of excellence and its exceptional work in public relations.
With over 200,000 monthly readers, Fort Lauderdale Magazine is a reflection of the people, places, events, issues and concerns that shape residents’ lives, influence their decisions and provide for a vibrant existence in Fort Lauderdale. Fort Lauderdale Magazine informs, challenges, delights, and inspires the people who live, work and play in the city.
With strong connections in the area and extensive local knowledge, Durée & Company’s team of seasoned professionals has been a pivotal force in the Fort Lauderdale story, assisting businesses and spearheading impactful campaigns, taking a hands-on and strategic approach. The firm’s understanding of the community’s pulse and its invaluable network of local connections have enabled it to create compelling PR campaigns that resonate.
Founded during an era when PR was rooted in traditional practices, Durée & Company has evolved alongside the ever-changing communications industry by embracing the digital transformation, social media trends, and the demand for integrated communications strategies, continuing to distinguish the agency as a leader in its field.
Under Ross’ direction, the firm has earned acclaim for delivering innovative, future-focused public relations and marketing strategies for a diverse client roster that spans local, national, and international consumer brands, emerging industries, philanthropists, and business leaders.
Looking ahead, Durée & Company remains committed to its vision: evolving PR and marketing. Defining what is next. Innovation will remain at the core of everything the agency does.
Ross continues to inspire, innovate, and elevate the practice of public relations and marketing. With a courageous vision and a hands-on leadership style, she delivers strategic, creative, and results-driven programs that set new benchmarks for success.
“We are incredibly proud to win gold for Fort Lauderdale Magazine’s Best PR Agency award for the third consecutive year,” said Ross. “To be recognized by the very community we serve makes this honor exceptionally special. This wouldn’t be possible without my extraordinary team, whose passion, dedication and commitment to our clients shows in our results.”
Durée & Company’s practice areas include real estate, nonprofit, hospitality, business, lifestyle, health and wellness, legal, yacht and marine, as well as cannabis, psychedelics and other emerging industries. While the firm’s longtime headquarters is in Fort Lauderdale, it also maintains a satellite office in Aspen, Colorado.
In 2024, Durée & Company was recognized with an Honorable Mention in PRNEWS Experiential and Events PR Awards in the Best Overall Event PR Event/Experimental Campaign B-to-B category for its work with PORT 32 Marinas. Ross won the Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce’s 4th Annual Badass Women of the Year Award in Arts, Culture and Media. She was also honored by PRNEWS as a “Media Industry Champion” at the 2025 Top Women Awards.
For more information about Durée & Company, please visit www.dureeandcompany.com or call the firm’s Fort Lauderdale office at 954-723-9350.
About Durée & Company, Inc.
Founded in 1999, Durée & Company is a full-service, well-respected and highly creative public relations and marketing agency serving a diverse client base of local, national and international consumer brands, landmark industries, business leaders and philanthropists from its offices in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Aspen, Colorado. Practice areas include nonprofit, hospitality, business, lifestyle, health and wellness, legal, real estate, yacht and marine as well as cannabis, psychedelics, and other emerging industries. Durée & Company is a member of PR Boutiques International™ (PRBI), a global network of nearly 40 independent, owner-led public relations agencies spanning five continents. To learn more, call 954-723-9350; go to dureeandcompany.com; cannabismarketingpr.com; or psychedelicpr.com. Join the social conversation and follow Durée & Company on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn at @DureeCoPR.