Strategic branding and marketing: top 49ers find success through many methods.

• Position: SPECIAL SECTION: 2015 Top 49ers

The most recent marketing campaign for ASRC began in March of 2013 as a joint effort between ASRC and the North Slope Borough. Our theme, Strengthening Alaska Through Our Values, highlights the positive cultural as well as business impacts of ASRC and the NSB. The latest commercials were shot in various locations on the North Slope in November of 2014 and include a wide variety of scenes; these include ASRC board chairman Crawford Patkotak caribou hunting with his sons to a welding class at Ilisagvik College. These television ads won an Emmy Award from the Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in June of 2015.

--Arctic Slope Regional Corporation

BBNC has utilized TV, radio, print, digital media, and social media channels to successfully reach Alaskans.

--Bristol Bay Native Corporation

Providing customers with a one-stop shop that offers multi-modal solutions tailored to their exact needs, utilizing air, surface, sea "'transportation, and logistics services.

--Lynden, Inc.

We treat our workforce like an invaluable asset.

--Chenega Corporation

In tandem with our corporate restructuring in 2013-14, Chugach underwent a rebranding effort to include refreshing our company logos, developing branding guidelines; and conducting a complete corporate website redesign. In alignment with our corporate marketing strategy to continue diversifying and pursuing future investment and growth opportunities, our intent is to serve as a good owner of multiple companies. We are able to achieve this vision through consistent, focused marketing and branding messages that reinforce our Alaska Native values and ownership philosophy.

--Chugach Alaska Corporation

Afognak Native Corporation, Alutiiq LLC, and its subsidiaries maintain the afognak.com and alutiiq.com websites as their primary marketing vehicles, beyond direct proposals for government and commercial contracts. Their reputation is built on innovative partnerships while providing comprehensive, high quality services to customers. Afognak Native Corporation is rooted in the core Alutiiq values of harmony, respect, efficiency, communication, trust, Elder knowledge, and heritage. As an Alaska Native Corporation, employees and shareholders are united in this shared value system. A leader in service contracting in Alaska and beyond, they rely on past performance as their most successful business marketing strategy.

--Afognak Native Corporation / Alutiiq LLC

Earned 2015 Public Relations Society of America Alaska Chapter Aurora Award, Multicultural Public Relations, for descendant enrollment informational campaign.

--Calista Corporation

Doyon's oilfield services pillar companies continue to be leaders in their industries on Alaska's North Slope. Doyon Drilling, Inc. (DDI), our flagship company, operates on the North Slope of Alaska with seven of the most unique oil and gas land drilling rigs specially designed to drill oil wells in extreme conditions. In addition, ConocoPhillips contracted with Doyon Drilling to build a new rig, Rig 142, for the Kuparuk...