Grand View Media Group Brings Home Eight GAMMA Awards

Grand View Media Group brought home eight Magazine Association of the Southeast (MAGS) awards from the 20th Annual GAMMA Awards dinner on April 30, 2009. The event recognizes editorial and design excellence in magazine publishing.

Barry Lovette, General Manager, and Brent Kizzire, Vice President of Operations for Grand View Media Group were present to accept the awards. In all, Grand View Media Group brought home two Gold awards, four Silver awards and two Honorable Mentions.

Grand View Media Group won a Gold award in the Best Single Issue (Consumer Paid, revenues less than $1 million) category for Waterfowl & Retriever – Southern Flyway 2008. The magazine won Gold in this category last year. Grand View also won a Gold award in the Best Service Journalism (Consumer Paid/Controlled, revenues less than $1 million) category for Hunt Club Digest.

In the Best Custom Publishing (Consumer/Paid, revenues more than $1 million) category, Grand View Media Group won a Silver award for Cabela's Outfitter Journal. No Gold was awarded in this category.

Nephrology News & Issues from Grand View Media Group won Silver in the Best Magazine Website (B2B, revenues more than $1 million) category. Silver for the Best Single Cover (Consumer/Paid, revenues more than $1 million) category went to Grand View Media Group publication Cabela's Outfitter Journal – August 2008. Grand View Media Group's Waterfowl & Retriever – Northern Flyway 2008, won silver for Best Single Issue (Consumer/Paid, revenues less than $1 million).

Grand View Media Group won two Honorable Mentions, one for Southern Sporting Journal – "The Paddle into Manhood" in the Best Essay (Consumer/Paid, revenues less than $1 million) category and the other for Processing in the Best Magazine Web site (B2B, revenues more than $1 million) category.

"The eight GAMMA awards are a testament to the hard work and dedication of all Grand View Media employees," Kizzire said. "Grand View's commitment to providing the finest media products within our respective industries is apparent in every one of the 144 publications we produce, not to mention our electronic offerings, which are now winning awards. GVMG has earned 28 publishing awards since 2000. This speaks volumes about our employees."

An elite group of magazine editors and designers judge the GAMMA Awards. Entry categories include General Excellence, Best Single Issue, Best Feature, Best Service Journalism, Best Series, Best Design and Best Photography.

About Grand View Media Group - Grand View Media Group is a wholly-owned subsidiary of EBSCO Industries, a multibillion-dollar international conglomerate based in Birmingham, Ala.

Grand View Media Group specializes in consumer and business-to-business magazines, as well as custom publishing. The company currently publishes 15 titles and three directories covering the outdoors and business-to-business markets.

Grand View Media Group holds joint publishing ventures with some of the nation's most widely recognized businesses and organizations to produce such magazine titles as Cabela's Outfitter Journal; and Pro Bull Rider, the Official Magazine of the Professional Bull Riders Organization. The company's consumer titles developed and launched by Grand View Media Group include Whitetail Journal, Predator Xtreme and Waterfowl & Retriever.

Grand View Media Group's corporate headquarters are located in The Town of Mt Laurel in Birmingham, Ala. The company also has offices located in Minneapolis, Minn., Albany, N.Y. and Scottsdale, Ariz.

Grand View Media Group's parent company, EBSCO Industries, is No. 1 in the world in many publishing services, and is the leading distributor of magazines and publications to public and academic libraries in the U.S. and worldwide. EBSCO also is a leading distributor of magazines to reception rooms in the U.S., including doctors' offices, medical clinics, dentists' offices, beauty salons, barbershops, gyms, and automotive repair and oil change facilities. Along with Grand View Media Group's existing national distribution streams, the company is poised to build unique, proprietary circulation and marketing programs and vehicles.