Circulation Federation Tony Mineart Newspaper Merchandiser of the Year Awards

NAA renamed the award “The Tony Mineart Merchandiser of the Year Award” to recognize Mineart’s dedication to the newspaper industry, as well as his leadership in fostering expertise in newspaper merchandising and growing readership. Mineart helped conceive and launch the award in 2001.

The Tony Mineart Newspaper Merchandiser of the Year awards honor retailers who have demonstrated a long-term cooperative effort to sell and market newspapers in their stores and who model the industry’s cutting-edge approach to single-copy promotions. Judges look for retailers who are open to ideas such as co-promotions, newspaper-specific promotions or, in general, the retailer who does the best overall and ongoing job of promoting newspapers in their stores. These awards are given annually to retailers from the following categories: convenience stores, grocery stores, drug stores, mass merchandisers and restaurants and other non-traditional retail outlets. The NAA Circulation Federation Awards Committee reviews these nominations and selects the final winners. 

Nominations are being accepted year round.  Official judging occurs in December and winners are announced in late January.  To have you nomination considered for 2009 it must be received by November 20th, 2009.  Nominations received after November 20th will be entered in the 2010 awards.