Nominations Now Being Accepted For The Third Annual Category Manager Of The Year Awards

CHICAGO, May 4, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Category managers are a driving force behind the ongoing growth of the convenience-store industry. Their relationships with vendors, knowledge of trends and overall category insights keep the industry relevant, competitive and breaking in-store sales records year after year. The annual Category Manager of the Year Awards is CSP magazine's way of identifying and celebrating the best category managers in the industry today.

From now until Aug. 17, CSP is asking its supplier and wholesale partners to submit their nominations for the c-store industry's finest category managers at CSPDailyNews.com/CategoryManagerAward. Nominees should:

• Drive sales through both innovative thinking and a sharp focus on data.
• Influence others within their company and the industry as a whole.
• Have a deep understanding of their customers and markets.
• Foster meaningful relationships within the industry.

"We began these awards as a way to celebrate the women and men who live and breathe their categories," said Abbie Westra, Winsight's director of retail content, during the 2017 award ceremony. "They straddle the store and the corporate offices. They know their vendors, their ops team, the IT guy and, most of all, they know their guests. They truly understand what's really resonating with today's consumers."

Finalists are chosen by the CSP editorial staff based on the highest number on nominations. Suppliers and distributors can then vote on the finalists to determine the winners, who will be announced during a special ceremony at the 2018 Convenience Retailing University, held Feb. 21-23, in Glendale, Ariz. They will also be featured in a special section of CSP's 2018 Category Management Handbook, to be published in the spring of 2018.

The honor of Category Manager of the Year will be bestowed on one person from each of six product categories:

• Candy
• Foodservice
• General Merchandise/Health & Beauty Care
• Packaged Beverages
• Snacks
• Tobacco/OTP

To see the 2017 winners, visit CSPDailyNews.com/category-news/general-merchandise/articles/csps-category-manager-year-awards-2017

Winsight, LLC is a market-dominant, business-to-business media and information company specializing in the convenience-retailing, restaurant and noncommercial foodservice industries. Winsight has an extensive media portfolio of four leading publications, including CSP, Restaurant Business, Foodservice Director and Convenience Store Products; a suite of digital products, including websites, e-newsletters (Restaurant Business Daily and CSP Daily News) and webinars, plus video products, mobile and tablet apps and custom marketing solutions. The Winsight Events group produces six exclusive, large-scale executive-level conferences—Restaurant Leadership Conference, FARE Conference, Outlook Leadership Conference, Convenience Retailing University, FSTEC and MenuDirections—in addition to more than 12 major EduNetworking conferences and advisory meetings. Winsight acquired Technomic, Inc., the leading provider of primary and secondary market information and advisory services to the food industry. Winsight is the recognized leader in the markets it serves. For more information on Winsight and its brands, go to www.winsightmedia.com.

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