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Article Thumbnail Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2010: SNEWS BOB Awards
Aug 16, 2010
From the smallest to the largest, and everyone in between, exhibitors revved up their booth presentations at Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2010. The SNEWS BOB (best of booth) Award winners is an eclectic group that's not to be missed. And, for the first time, we asked the SNEWS Youth Reporting Team members for their picks.
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Article Thumbnail Outdoor Retailer Winter Market 2010: SNEWS BOB Awards
Feb 3, 2010
Hundreds exhibited at Outdoor Retailer Winter Market 2010, but only one can earn the coveted Top BOB Award from SNEWS. See which company snagged the top spot and the others that received kudos for their display ingenuity.
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Article Thumbnail Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2009: SNEWS BOB Awards
Aug 5, 2009
A company’s booth reflects its personality and its core values, while also serving the needs of its customers. Just as important as the showcase for new gear and product, a trade show also shows off the efforts of many exhibitors to upgrade, redesign and otherwise rethink their booth footprints, constructions and presentations. We at SNEWS® like to acknowledge those efforts. We are proud to present the winners of the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2009 SNEWS Best of Booths (BOB) Awards, in recognition of the most successful of these endeavors.
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Article Thumbnail Outdoor Retailer Winter Market 2009: SNEWS BOB Awards
Feb 13, 2009
A company’s booth reflects its personality and its core values, while also serving the needs of its customers. Just as important as the showcase for new gear and product, a trade show also shows off the efforts of many exhibitors to upgrade, redesign and otherwise rethink their booth footprints, constructions and presentations. We at SNEWS® like to acknowledge those efforts. We are proud to present the winners of the ORWM 2009 SNEWS Best of Booths (BOB) Awards, in recognition of the most successful of these endeavors.
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Article Thumbnail Outdoor Retailer Summer Market '08: SNEWS BOB Awards
Aug 20, 2008
It's not surprising that, at the 2008 Outdoor Retailer Summer Market, the number of exhibitors debuting new booths could be counted on one hand. While it didn't stop exhibitors from upgrading and remerchandising their presentations in very unique ways, it did reduce costs and the waste connected with trade show exhibits.
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Power Players

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Article Thumbnail Congratulations to the new class of SNEWS Power Players 2010!
Jan 20, 2010
Insight and inspiration provide an edge that everybody can use in today’s business climate. That is the driving force behind the SNEWS Power Players -- an honor that acknowledges outdoor industry leaders for varied accomplishments in different industry sectors. Meet the new class for 2010.
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Article Thumbnail Just 48 hours left to nominate your picks for 2010's SNEWS Power Players
Sep 30, 2009
SNEWS® Power Player award nominations have been pouring in all month, but have we heard from you? Take this last chance to enter your nominations quickly and easily online.
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Article Thumbnail Don't miss your chance to nominate a SNEWS Power Player for 2010
Sep 16, 2009
Nominations have been flowing in for the next class of SNEWS Power Players since we swung open the doors more than a week ago. But wait, you haven't taken part yet? Don't miss out -- you can enter your nominations quickly and easily online.
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Article Thumbnail Nominate your SNEWS Power Players for 2010
Sep 7, 2009
The SNEWS® Power Players -- they are people who are innovative, inspirational, visionary, distinguished, compassionate, mentors. They are influencers of an industry and people, have uncommon power and thought, and quite typically, they are extraordinarily humble. Ten Power Players were named in 2009 in our first awards. You nominated them. Now, it's time for another set of outdoor industry SNEWS Power Players to step forward in 2010...but who they are is up to you.
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Article Thumbnail Another 15 Power Players to keep your eye on in '09
Jan 20, 2009
In addition to the 10 Power Players named in our SNEWS Winter Outdoor magazine for 2009, SNEWS has also named 15 Power Players to "keep your eye on" in 2009. Keep in mind that the SNEWS Power Players list will become an annual honor -- one we hope is anticipated and will keep the industry talking. Make sure you stay abreast of SNEWS, so when we ask for nominations in late 2009 for the SNEWS 2010 Power Players list, your choice gets noticed.
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PR Awards

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Article Thumbnail SNEWS Editorial: Drowning in catalogs and press kits -- what a waste
Jul 15, 2009
An alert reader sent us the photo below, showing three stacks of promotional materials for the upcoming Outdoor Retailer Summer Market, all containing invites to come by a booth and check out the new wares. This is a specialty retailer who, like many, would honestly prefer to receive just one catalog or press kit for the store prior to any trade show. And, to make it worse...
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Article Thumbnail The 2005 SNEWS® PR Awards
Aug 1, 2005
Nationwide, editors vote to recognize good PR and offer tips for better communication. This year, we commend those that made the top ten. If you are mentioned, you are being recognized by our voting panel of journalists as providing exceptional service, not only to us, but also to your clients and employers. We've been told that these awards, and the commentary provided by our voting panel, help to raise the bar for everyone and that they serve as a means to spawn improvement for PR agencies and individuals who seek to become better at the job counted on by so many members of the media. Oh...and there's a bonus sidebar where PR folk tell the media just what we need to do to make their jobs easier.
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Article Thumbnail The 2004 SNEWS® Editors' Voice PR Awards
Aug 1, 2004
Nationwide, editors vote to recognize good PR and offer tips for better communication. A great PR person is worth his or her weight in gold to a journalist, not to mention to the company for which he or she works. We know it's not an easy job all the time to satisfy us demanding journalists as well as to please company management, which is why we established the now infamous SNEWS® Editors' Voice PR Awards four years ago. We felt it was high time to recognize a stellar performance in the face of so much stellar and, well, not so stellar execution. The bottom line is, we don't need continual harassment, endless pestering, and nonsensical and fluffy no-news press releases. To do our jobs well, we need relevant and timely information, a conduit to the powers-that-be for interviews, products to test, and sometimes – we admit it – we want it last week. PR folk that help us to do our jobs well should be commended because, without them, our lives would be infinitely more challenging.
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Article Thumbnail The 2003 SNEWS Editors' Voice PR Awards
Aug 1, 2003
Good PR is worth its weight in gold, both to the media and the company. We've been told by fellow scribes that our awards have not only made better PR people out of some, but also led their companies to appreciate what they do a bit more. Yes, we all have horror stories. But in the glee to share the bad, we sometimes forget the good stuff, the golden PR people out there who make our lives easier while also getting their companies great exposure in the media. So in order not to sound like horribly jaded and negative journalists all the time, we established these PR Awards three years ago. That way the good would get the recognition it deserved....
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Article Thumbnail SNEWS 2002 Editors' Voice PR Awards
Jul 12, 2002
On the heels of last year's Editors' Voice awards, our fellow media compatriots have told us the PR world has sharpened up its act, and we're grateful for all of us, whether that's because of or in spite of us! We've also heard from many PR folk who thanked us for last year's awards process and information, telling us too that many learned how better to communicate with the media as a result and, best of all, many received job offers too.
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Readers' Choice

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Article Thumbnail SNEWS Readers' Choice: Our readers pick their top 25 products of the last quarter-century
Jun 22, 2009
Game-changing, pioneering, inventive -- all are ideal words to describe the innovative products that helped fuel the development and growth of the outdoor industry over the last 25 years. To celebrate our 25th anniversary, we at SNEWS® compiled a list of gear, apparel and footwear from the editors' archives at SNEWS. Then we turned to an industry vote to decide the top 25, presented here as the SNEWS Readers' Choice (the top 10 appear in our printed magazine, and will be revealed online on July 1, 2009 when our digital version of the magazine goes live). For the stories behind these groundbreaking products, we talked to the companies that created the industry's most recognized products still in use today.
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SNEWS Retailer of the Year Awards

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Article Thumbnail Midwest Mountaineering celebrates ROTY award with rockin’ party!
Aug 27, 2010
Midwest Mountaineering took the concept of a customer appreciation party in honor of its ROTY award to new levels, according to our team who has been helping retailers put on Retailer of the Year parties for several months now. Learn what the retailer did that was special…and then make plans for us to party at your store next year.
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Article Thumbnail Customer appreciation parties in full swing for ROTY winners…will your store be next?
Jun 28, 2010
Customer appreciation parties are a great thing, and we've already held two -- one at Appalachian Outdoor and the other at Great Outdoor Provision -- with four more to go. Will your store be next? Only if you are a Retailer of the Year winner in 2011 -- find out how to get your store nominated here!
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Article Thumbnail ROTY winner Rutabaga shares joy of paddlesports with disadvantaged youth
May 12, 2010
Rutabaga, the winner of the 2010 SNEWS®/Backpacker Retailer of the Year Award for youth involvement, partners with community centers and schools to share the joy of paddling with kids from low-income families.
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Article Thumbnail ROTY winner Appalachian Outdoors breaks down barriers to connect people with the great outdoors
Apr 26, 2010
Inspiring kids, college students and adults to get outside, Appalachian Outdoors received the 2010 SNEWS®/Backpacker Retailer of the Year award for growing outdoor participation.
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Article Thumbnail ROTY winner Great Outdoor Provision Company lends critical support to North Carolina land trusts
Apr 12, 2010
Great Outdoor Provision Company rallies support for North Carolina land trusts, and educates the public on how these conservation groups operate. Helping save more than 300,000 acres of land, Great Outdoor Provision won the 2010 SNEWS/Backpacker Retailer of the Year award for the conservation category.
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