Awards recognize both companies and individuals for excellence in the content management space
Chicago—The Automotive Content Professionals Network (ACPN), a community of the Auto Care Association, announced the winners of the 2024 ACPN Content Excellence Awards at the annual Auto Care Connect conference, which took place in May 5-8, in Chicago. The ACPN Content Excellence Awards recognize both companies and individuals for excellence in the content management space.
The ACPN company-based awards recognize best-in-class examples of ACES and PIES data standards use and compliance as well as electronic cataloging and content in business-to-consumer (B2C) platforms in the aftermarket. The ACPN individual-based award recognizes individuals who lead, innovate, and provide remarkable contributions to the ACPN and content management communities, content management and supporting technologies, and the auto care industry.
ACES and PIES Data Award – Year, Make, Model Applications Only (BaseVehicleID)
This category is intended to recognize excellent source data. This award judges ACES and PIES files on a variety of criteria that ACPN deems as essential when creating best in class ACES and PIES data for ACES xml files that utilize year, make, model applications (BaseVehicleID) only. The 2024 winners are:
- Gold: (Small – 10 – 50K Applications) – MagnaFlow Exhaust Products
- Gold: (Medium – 50k – 250k Applications) – Winhere Brake Parts, Inc.
- Gold: (Large – Over 250K Applications) – NTN Bearing Corporation
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ACES and PIES Data Award – Manufacturer/Equipment Model Applications Only (EquipmentBaseID)
This category is intended to recognize excellent source data. This award judges ACES and PIES files on a variety of criteria that ACPN deems as essential when creating best in class ACES and PIES data for ACES xml files that utilize manufacturer/equipment model applications (EquipmentBaseID) only. The 2024 winner is:
- Gold: (Over 500 Applications) – Old World Industries
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Web-Based Catalog Award
This category is for catalog application lookup that is purely browser-based (websites) and does not require any special client-side app to be installed. The 2024 winners are:
- Gold: Dorman Products, Inc.
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Trailblazer Award
The ACPN Content Excellence Trailblazer Award recognizes annually a single individual who leads, innovates, and provides remarkable contributions to the ACPN and content management communities, content management and supporting technologies, and the auto care industry. This award is presented and managed by the Automotive Content Professionals (ACPN) Leadership Council and the Technology Standards Committee (TSC). The winners is Doreen Slayter, ACP
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Receiver’s Choice Award
The Receiver’s Choice Award recognizes organizations that are supplying high-quality content including ACES®, PIES™, digital assets and other customer specific formats. Honorees are selected by content receivers who support ACPN for their exemplary content and are leading the way in integrity, accuracy, timeliness, completeness, best practices and other proprietary specific judging criteria.
- Advance Auto Parts Presented Award to Dorman Products, Inc.
- Aftermarket Auto Parts Alliance Presented Award to Baldwin Filters
- AutoZone, Inc. Presented Award to Dorman Products, Inc.
- Epicor Software Corporation Presented Award to MotoRad
- O’Reilly Auto Parts Presented Award to DMA Industries, LLC.
- PartsTech, Inc. Presented Award to Cardone Industries, Inc.
- WHI Solutions Presented Award to Winhere Brake Parts, Inc.
Learn more about all of the ACPN Content Excellence Awards on the ACPN Awards webpage.
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