Back in the day, Condé Nast used to fly its business and ad sales staff to Key Largo, Fla., for two days of sun and fun and the handing out of the annual Publisher of the Year awards.
In 2004, when then-Chief Executive Steve Florio presided over the trip, the company even hired KC and the Sunshine Band to serenade the revenue generators on another record-setting year.
In recent years, however, as budgets tightened, the awards ceremony didn’t even leave Manhattan.
This year, they did not even leave the HQ.
With the awards ceremony presided over by CEO Bob Sauerberg, new President of Revenue Jim Norto n and Anna Wintour, Condé’s artistic director and Vogue editor-in-chief, the company, for the first time, even welcomed those money-burning editorial types to join in the fun and receive some accolades.
In fact, the company handed out its first-ever Editor of the Year Award, which went to GQ Editor-in-Chief Jim Nelson.
Nelson launched a new quarterly spinoff print title, GQ Style, expanded video efforts and even hosted a well-received Grammys after-party — although, truth be told, the soirée still has a ways to go before it rivals the famed Vanity Fair Oscars after-party.
VF’s Chris Mitchell won the company’s Chief Revenue Officer of the Year Award, primarily for his work increasing digital ad revenue by 71 percent and boosting by 10 percent sponsorship revenue at the second annual New Establishment Summit.
Newly installed Creative Director Raúl Martinez landed the Creativity Award.
And you know you’ve had a lot of personnel moves when your chief human resources officer, JoAnn Murray, snags the Corporate Executive of the Year Award.
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