MONTCLAIR, NJ (September 23, 2022) – SmartWork Media took home two gold awards, amongst its haul of four total honors, at the recently announced FOLIO Eddie and Ozzie Awards, one of the most prestigious award programs in B2B media.
SmartWork Media’s newest publication, Global Cannabis Times, won gold for “Best Launch” for the magazine’s debut Winter 2022 edition. The magazine, led by Editor-in-Chief Damon Poeter and lead designer Victor Cantal, included a feature on the career origin stories of several cannabis professionals, as well as an in-depth cover interview with Jim Cacioppo, CEO of fast-growing cannabis retail and cultivation company Jushi Holdings.
Group managing editor Chris Burslem also earned gold honors — taking the top prize in the “Instructional/How-To Article” category for his story, “Lean”, in the February 2022 edition of INSTORE. The story provided a fascinating, in-depth look at how jewelers can use lean philosophies to run their stores more effectively.
Other FOLIO honorees were Signs of the Times, which was a finalist for “Best B2B Redesign” and designer Marc Abuan, who was a finalist for his “Holiday Whoppers” design treatment in the December 2021 edition of INSTORE.
Winners were recognized at an awards event held Sept. 13 at City Winery in New York.
“We’re proud to have already earned a major honor for our newest publication, Global Cannabis Times,” says SmartWork Media publisher and CEO, Matthijs Braakman. “We’re also proud of Chris, and all our other winners this year, for continuing the SmartWork Media tradition of absolutely best-in-class editorial products.”
With 14 awards so far in 2022, SmartWork Media has now earned a total of 170 awards for its print and digital media — giving the group one of the highest ratios of awards per title in all of B2B publishing.
“Our editorial teams continue to do amazing work in every market we cover,” says David Squires, group editorial director. “Our mission is to create business publications that don’t feel like work to read, that readers are actually excited to see arrive in their mailboxes. We appreciate the FOLIO Award judges recognizing all the hard work our teams put into making that magic happen.”
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ABOUT SMARTWORK MEDIA: SmartWork Media is dedicated to the idea that business media should strive to inform, excite and inspire business readers, and that a good business magazine can (and should) have the energy and compulsive readability of a top consumer publication. The company publishes INSTORE, INVISION, PETS+, VMSD, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, BIG PICTURE, SCREEN PRINTING and GLOBAL CANNABIS TIMES magazines as well as their respective websites, and events — IRDC, the Garden Center Show and the new INSTORE Show, coming in 2023.
