ACE Press Award Winners 2010
Congratulations to all the ACE Press Awards winners
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Award 1: For circulation excellence by a National Newspaper
John Bunting (right) presents the Award to Neil Jagger: ref: DSC9702
Gold: Daily Mail & Mail on Sunday – Mail Newspapers
"The judges felt that the success of the Spice Campaign to build circulation deserved to win a closely fought category."
Silver: The Daily Telegraph – Telegraph Media
Bronze: The Guardian and Observer – Guardian News and Media
Award 2: For circulation excellence by a Smaller Magazine
David Cooke (right) presents the Award to James Whitaker: DSC9712
Gold: Cycling Plus – Future Publishing
"In a strong category, the judges felt that Cycling Plus demonstrated exceptional circulation strength and strategy. Womens Fitness was an excellent second place winner, with Classic Bike achieving commendable growth in a crowded sector."
Silver: Womens Fitness – Interactive Publishing Co.
Bronze: Classic Bike – Frontline/Bauer Media
Award 3: For circulation excellence by a Major Magazine
John Barn (right) presents the Award to Lauren Bale and Peter Hilton: DSC9717
Gold: Reveal – National Magazine Company
"Tough trading conditions bring out the very best from publishers determined to improve performance. Reveal’s impressive growth very much justifies its place as a worthy winner."
Silver: Time Out London – Time Out
Bronze: Classic Rock – Future Publishing
Award 4: For the most effective promotional campaign by a National Newspaper
Steff Pfadenhauer (right) presents the Award to Paul Roberts: DSC9722
Gold: MP’s Expenses Guide, The Daily Telegraph – Telegraph Media Group
"Stunning circulation performance because of great ideas from creative, editorial and circulation management."
Silver: The Guardian & Observer Subscriber Campaign – Guardian News and Media
Bronze: Daily Mail – Mail Newspapers
Award 5: For the most effective promotional campaign by a Smaller Magazine
Mike Mirams (left) presents the Award to Vivian Mathews and Richard Kingerlee: DSC9727
Gold: Wired – Condé Nast
"We saw a huge number of innovative and impactful promotional campaign ideas in this category. Ultimately Wired differentiated itself with a well thoughtout, well implemented campaign that delivered high consumer awareness and a strong sales performance.“
Silver: Dr. Who – GE Fabbri
Bronze: Kitchen Garden – Mortons Media Group
Award 6: For the most effective promotional campaign by a Major Magazine
Jane Dyson (left) presents the Award to Suzanne Abbott, Sam Viggers, Tom Smith and Janet Funnel: DSC9735
Gold: Marketforce – Sainsbury’s Comic Relief
"In a very close fought category the Sainsbury’s Comic Relief entry demonstrated an innovative, engaging and ultimately rewarding partnership between one of the UKs largest publishing groups and one of the nations favourite charities.“
Joint Silver:
Match Attax – Topps Europe
Look and Now Summer Giveaway with TIGI and
WHS Travel– Marketforce
Award 7: The ACE Sustainability Award
Clive Milner (right) presents the Award to Kai Muxlow: DSC9738 
Gold: Guardian News and Media
"It is clear that sustainability issues play a key part in GNM’s thinking and planning. The entry demonstrates not only company buy-in but also local community involvement and plenty of relevant applications to the publishing industry in general.“
Silver: National Magazine Company
Award 8: Retailer of the Year Independent Store
Neil Jagger (right) presents the Award to Richard Brighton: DSC9744
Gold: Brighton’s Newsagents Sonning Common Congratulations to owner David Brighton.
"They are extremely open, honest and provide a great sounding board for publisher ideas providing constructive feedback and solutions.“
Award 9: Retailer of the Year Multiples
Niel Jagger (right) presents the Award to John Ward: DSC9749Gold: Select Service Partners (SSP)
"SSP have a structured and aggressively implemented strategy based on delivering a great offer to the customer."
Award 10: For Service and communication to retailers by a Newspaper
Paul Clark presents the Award to Tracey Hart: DSC9755
Gold: Daily Mail
"The Daily Mail was the clear winner with over 50% of the votes. Typical comments were: ‘The only national newspaper that has helped my buisness.’ ‘The rep is always at hand and only a phone call away’. ‘The Daily Mail is the most supportive publisher to the retailer by a mile."
Silver: The Sun
Joint Bronze: The Mirror and The Daily Telegraph
Award 11: For service and communication to retailers by a Magazine
Leigh Pomlett (right) presents the Award to Bob Nuttall: DSC9758
Gold: OK! Magazine – Northern & Shell
"OK! magazine were clear winners. Key reasons mentioned by retailers are the value packs that are now running, the quality of TV advertising, and a constant theme was the consistenly high standard of the publication which provides a good read for customers with real value for money.“
Silver: Hello
Joint Bronze: Take a Break and Auto Trader
Award 12: Launch of the Year
Paul Gibbons (right) presents the Award to Vivian Mathews and Richard Kingerlee: DSC9764
Gold: Wired – Condé Nast
"The judges results were closely bunched but the ‘Launch of the Year’ winner was clearly ‘Wired’. Adopting an innovative marketing approach, with all the above line advertising exclusively digital. The Knitter (Future Publishing) was a close second place followed by National Mag Best Food Fast Partwork in third place."
Silver: The Knitter – Future Publishing
Bronze: Best Food Fast Partwork – National Magazine Company
Award 13: For achievement by an individual or team that has shown outstanding circulation innovation and ingenuity during 2009
Sharon Douglas presents the Award to Paul Reeves: DSC9768
Gold: Delivering Growth Together – Telegraph National Sales Team
"The individual and team achievement award is always a difficult one to judge as it covers so many disparate qualities. However, through clever thinking, planning and innovative application, the Telegraph National Sales Team were the clear winners.”
Silver: Data Manager, Kevin Friend – Daily Mail
Bronze: Future Trade Marketing Team, SBR – A low volume Solution – Future Publishing
Award 14: The ACE Outstanding Achievement Award
Judy Frumin receives the Award from Sharon Douglas: DSC9777
Judy Frumin – Smiths News
"Judy’s continued commitment and dedication to our industry over the years, has been delivered with passion and enthusiasm and ACE is delighted to recognise her achievements with this award.”
