Grand View Media Group Brings Home Seven GAMMA Awards

ATLANTA, June 2, 2010 - Grand View Media Group brought home seven Magazine Association of the Southeast (MAGS) GAMMA Awards. The awards recognize editorial and design excellence in magazine publishing. Barry Lovette, general manager, and Brent Kizzire, vice president of operations for Grand View Media Group accepted the honors at the 20th Annual GAMMA Awards dinner on April 30, 2010.

In all, Grand View Media Group brought home two Gold awards, three Bronze awards and two Honorable Mentions.

Grand View Media Group won a Gold award in the Best Single Issue (Consumer Paid, published three times per year or less) category for Waterfowl & Retriever. Waterfowl & Retriever has won Gold in this category for the past two years. Grand View also won a Gold award in the Best Custom Publishing (Consumer Paid) category for Cabela's Outfitter Journal. The magazine won a Silver award last year in the same category.

Grand View Media Group's "CMM Flower Power" feature from the June 2009 issue of Cleaning and Maintenance Management earned the Bronze award for Best Feature, Business-to-Business. Archery Business won another Bronze for their "Boon or Bust" feature in the 2009 Trade Show issue in the Best Single Issue, Business-to-Business category. In the Best Single Cover, Business-to-Business category Water Technology won with "Will Blue Be The Next Green?" from the Dec 2009 issue.

Grand View Media Group won two Honorable Mentions, one for the October 2009 issue Flow Control – "It Came From The Lab" in the Best Single Cover, Business-to-Business category and the other for Waterfowl & Retriever for the "Ultimate Waterfowling" Northern Edition 2009 issue in the Best Redesign, (Consumer Paid) category.

"Grand View Media Group places a lot of emphasis on hiring highly talented designers and editors," Kizzire said. "We have created a collaborative team-accountability approach while encouraging creative freedom to create innovative publications that we feel exceed the needs and expectations of our audiences. This allows us to produce some of the most respected titles in our respective industries.  It's encouraging to see the panel of judges agree."

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.
For additional information on Grand View Media Group, visit www.gvmg.com.

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 provides unique, proprietary circulation and marketing programs and vehicles.