CHICAGO, Dec. 30, 2009 - Aon Consulting, the global human capital consulting organization of Aon Corporation (NYSE: AON), today announced its Benefacts Practice was honored with 40 awards in 2009 for excellence in providing personalized employee communication services on behalf of clients. 

The Benefacts Practice earned awards from the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals, the International Academy of the Visual Arts and the League of American Communication Professionals LLC for a variety of projects including total rewards statements, open enrollment guides, benefit summaries and other employee communications.

"We are proud of this recognition and congratulate the Benefacts Practice for a job well done," said Bob Lopes, executive vice president, Human Capital Practice, with Aon Consulting. "These awards recognize the distinctive value we bring to clients in providing personalized and engaging total rewards and benefits communication." 

The Benefacts Practice won the following:

19 Communicator Awards from the International Academy of the Visual Arts:

• 12 Awards of Excellence
• 7 Awards of Distinction

16 Hermes Creative Awards from the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals:

• 7 Gold awards
• 5 Platinum awards
• 4 Honorable Mention awards

5 Awards from the League of American Communication Professionals LLC

• 1 Gold and 2 Bronze Spotlight Awards
• 1 Gold and 1 Bronze Magellan Awards

Aon Consulting's Benefacts Practice provides personalized employee communications, enhancing awareness and guiding employees to take an active role in their benefits planning. The industry-leading practice helps organizations become more strategic, measurable and targeted in their employee communication.

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About Aon Consulting
Aon Consulting is among the top global human capital consulting firms, with 2008 revenues of $1.358 billion and more than 6,300 professionals in 229 offices worldwide. Aon Consulting works with organizations to improve business performance and shape the workplace of the future through employee benefits, talent management and rewards strategies and solutions. Aon Consulting was named the best employee benefit consulting firm by the readers of Business Insurance magazine in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. For more information on Aon, please visit http://www.aon.mediaroom.com.

About Aon
Aon Corporation (NYSE: AON) is the leading global provider of risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, and human capital consulting. Through its more than 36,000 colleagues worldwide, Aon readily delivers distinctive client value via innovative and effective risk management and workforceproductivity solutions. Aon's industry-leading global resources and technical expertise are delivered locally through more than 500 offices in more than 120 countries. Named the world's best brokerby Euromoney  magazine's 2008 and 2009 Insurance Survey, Aon also ranked highest on Business Insurance's listing of the world's largest insurance brokers based on commercial retail, wholesale, reinsurance and personal lines brokerage revenues in 2008 and 2009. A.M. Best deemed Aon the number one insurance broker based on brokerage revenues in 2007, 2008, and 2009, and Aon was voted best insurance intermediary, best reinsurance intermediary and best employee benefits consulting firm in 2007, 2008 and 2009 by the readers of Business Insurance. For more information on Aon, log onto http://www.aon.com.

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