CLEVELAND - The Lawn & Landscape Media Group, a division of Cleveland-based GIE Media Inc., has received several graphic and editorial awards for its print publications Lawn & Landscape and Interior Business magazines. Recent awards include Lawn & Landscape’s first national award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE) and its distinction of being named the "Best Trade Magazine in Ohio" by the Press Club of Cleveland.
Awards from ASBPE, a professional association for full-time and freelance editors and writers employed in the business, trade and specialty press, included the following:
NATIONAL AWARD
- Outstanding Regular Department - Second Place, Lawn & Landscape, "How We Do It"
REGIONAL AWARDS
- Outstanding Regular Department - First Place, Lawn & Landscape, "How We Do It"
- Special Report - Third Place, Lawn & Landscape, State of the Industry Report
- Outstanding New Publication - Interior Business
- Regular News Department - Third Place, Interior Business, "IB Upfront"
The Press Club of Cleveland, an organization for print and broadcast journalists and editors, public relations and advertising professionals and anyone who works with them, presented the following awards to the Lawn & Landscape Media Group:
- Best Trade Magazine in Ohio - First Place, Lawn & Landscape
- Feature Writing - First Place, Lawn & Landscape, Russ Frith profile
- Business Writing - First Place, Lawn & Landscape, Franchise Focus
- Special Report - Second Place, State of the Industry Report
- Cover Design - First Place, Lawn & Landscape, October issue
- Special Report - Honorable Mention, Interior Business, State of the Industry Report
Contest judges from the Press Club of Cleveland said this about Lawn & Landscape: "Great looking magazine with great graphs and charts; a lot of information and very newsy and easy to navigate whole issue. Good topics, well written and attractively displayed. It makes you want to read it."
The Lawn & Landscape Media Group also recently received awards from the Turf and Ornamental Communicators Association (TOCA). For a listing of TOCA awards please click here: Prize-Winning Pages Of Lawn & Landscape Media Group Announced.
The Lawn & Landscape Media Group publishes Lawn & Landscape magazine and Interior Business magazine, sponsors the School of Management and Business Strategies Conferences, and develops the green industry’s most interactive web site www.lawnandlandscape.com.
The group is a division of GIE Media Inc., a privately held Cleveland-based producer of business magazines, directories, conferences and trade shows, custom print communications, vertical market Internet portals and related e-communications products and services.