AUGUSTA, Ga.— Morris Communications Co. LLC has announced an elite new award to honor the company's top advertising sales representatives. The announcement was made today by William S. Morris IV, president of Morris Communications.
The Morris President's Club Award will go annually to a salesperson from each of the company's 26 daily and nondaily newspapers selected by their publishers.
They will be flown to the annual publishers meeting in Augusta, Ga., where they will be honored, and will also receive special recognition in their home newspapers and in The Morris Communicator, the Morris quarterly employee magazine.
President's Club members will be selected on criteria including exceeding revenue budgets, teamwork, leadership, creativity, total product line selling, local selling awards and community involvement.
"We are extremely proud of our professional sales force," Morris said. "This award will honor those whose achievements in sales and service have far exceeded all expectations."
Two of the 26 President's Club honorees - one from the company's metro/Florida newspaper groups and one from its community group - will be further singled out for the William S. (Billy) Morris Award for Advertising Excellence.
Named for W.S. Morris III, Morris chairman and CEO, the award will honor "the best of the best," Will Morris said.
Each of those honorees will receive, among other things, an all-expense-paid trip to the Newspaper Association of America's annual marketing conference, and two roundtrip airline tickets to anywhere in the contiguous United States.
"Honoring excellence and personal best has long been a proud tradition at Morris," Will Morris said.
This year's honorees will be announced in the first quarter of 2005.
Morris Communications is a privately held media company with diversified holdings that include newspaper and magazine publishing, outdoor advertising, radio broadcasting, book publishing and distribution, and online services.
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Michael Parsons
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