Green Pea Publishing and Pageant Media lead the shortlist for the PPA Independent Publisher Awards 2009.
Both companies are represented in five of the 11 awards categories of the annual prizes awarded by the magazine trade body.
Shortlist Media, publisher of free weekly magazines Shortlist and Stylist, has been nominated in four categories, including consumer magazine of the year and editor of the year for Shortlist magazine’s
- Terri White.
In their sixth year the awards reward independent publishers with a turnover of £7 million or below.
Judging of this year’s awards took place earlier this week when 25 magazine industry experts gathered at PPA to select the finalists and winners from more than 100 entries.
The awards will be presented at a lunchtime ceremony in London on 1 December.
Awards shortlist
Brand Extension Of The Year
- Athletics Weekly, Descartes Publishing
- B2B Marketing, B2B Marketing
- HFMWeek, Pageant Media
- Food and Travel, Green Pea Publishing
- Procurement Leaders, Sigaria
Launch / Relaunch Of The Year
- B2B Marketing, B2B Marketing
- Communicate Magazine, Cravenhill Publishing
- HFMWeek, Pageant Media
- Morrisons Magazine online, Result Customer Communications
- New Start, New Start Publishing
- Procurement Leaders, Sigaria
Online Brand of the Year
- Clash Magazine, Clash Magazine
- The Moodie Report, Moodie International
- Total Telecom online, Terrapinn Holdings
Individual Achievement Award
- Tilly Boulter, Think Publishing
- Angela Dukes, Green Pea Publishing
- Janet Levin, Renaissance Publishing
- Kelly McCarthy-Maine, Signature Publishing
Designer of the Year
- Jeff Cooper, Boxout
- Chris Deacon, ShortList Media
- Angela Dukes, Green Pea Publishing
- John Rooney, IET
- Tonia Shuttleworth, Result Customer Communications
- Jes Stanfield, Think Publishing
Editor of the Year
- Heather Greig-Smith, Athene Publishing
- Austin Macauley, New Start Publishing
- David Rae, Sigaria
- Janet Rising, Signature Publishing
- Gwyn Roberts, Pageant Media
- Charlotte Swift, Green Pea Publishing
- Terri White, ShortList Media
Business Magazine of the Year
- B2B Marketing, B2B Marketing
- Credit Today, Athene Publishing
- HFMWeek, Pageant Media
- Procurement Leaders, Sigaria
- Retail Newsagent, Newtrade Publishing
Consumer Magazine of the Year
- Go Belfast, Penton Publications
- Horse&Rider, Signature Publishing
- ShortList, ShortList Media
- Spear’s, Spear’s Magazine
Customer Magazine of the Year
- BEER, Think Publishing
- Discover NLS, Think Scotland
- Ethos, Sunday
- IKEA FAMILY Live, August Media
- Morrisons Magazine, Result Customer Communications
Team of the Year
- New Start staff team, New Start Publishing
- ShortList Commercial Team, ShortList Media
- Signature Publishing Advertising Team, Signature Publishing
- Stream Publishing, Stream Publishing
Independent Publishing Company of the Year
- Green Pea Publishing
- Moodie International
- Pageant Media
- Penton Publications
- Think Publishing
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