CAmagazine tops number of nominees for KRW awards

CAmagazine, a perennial b2b prizewinner, comes out on top in this year's list of nominees for the Kenneth R. Wilson awards for business-to-business publications. From nearly 600 individual entries, CAmagazine got a total of 17 KRW nominations*, followed by Marketing magazine, Les Affaires, Precedent and University Affairs.

This year, the awards have two categories for Magazine of the Year -- professional and trade. The three finalists for professional are CAmagazine, Marketing and Up Here Business. The three for trade are Oilweek, Renovation Contractor and Salon magazine.

Among individual nominees, James Menzies leads all writers with 4 nominations for his work in Truck News, Truck West and Motortruck Fleet Executive (published by Business Information Group). Garnering 3 individual writing nominations are Alicia Androich (Marketing, Rogers Publishing Ltd.), Steve Bouchard (Transport Routier; Newcom Business Media), Jeff Buckstein (Statements; CGA Media) and Nicolas Mesly (Le Coopérateur agricole; La Coop fédérée).

Nominees for the special award Best Issue of 2012 are National magazine, Precedent and University Affairs. 

Complete list of finalists

The Gold, Silver and Honourable Mention awards will be presented at the Grand Banking Hall at One King West in Toronto, on Tuesday June 4, at the 59th annual Kenneth R. Wilson Awards gala, presented by CDS Global.

*An irony is that this is the last year that CAmagazine, as such, will exist. The Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CA) and the Society of Management Accountants of Canada (CMA), both of whom publish magazines, have merged into a new organization, the Chartered Professional Accountants (CPA) and a new, combined publication and website will be produced starting in 2014.