2016 Azbee Awards of Excellence
Category
Print > Company Profile > More Than $3 Million Revenue > Southeast
Awarded to
Jason Garcia
Entry details
ABC
Issue date (if applicable): 7/1/2015
Publication name: Florida Trend
Publishing company: Times Publishing
Website home page: FloridaTrend.com
Please describe the publication's mission and readership:
Florida Trend magazine is the only publication that covers business-related news and public policy issues in Florida from a statewide perspective. In that role, it has two major responsibilities:
One, to reflect the diversity of the various city-states within Florida, which have widely varying business communities and interests. Two, to foster a sense of statehood and promote democracy by illuminating the issues shared by all of Florida's communities. This has traditionally meant a strong commitment to investigative reporting, analysis and context.
The magazine enjoys an audience of the state's most influential business and political leaders and decision-makers, from the governor to the CEOs of virtually every significant company in the state.
Please describe the enterprising work that went into this entry and its significance or impact on readers:
Few companies are as well-known in Florida as ABC Fine Wine & Spirits, the Orlando-based liquor chain whose colorful storefronts are found across the state. But few companies are as poorly known as the family-owned retailer that has endured personal tragedies, power struggles and a changing competitive environment during its nearly 80-year history. In “High Spirits,” Florida Trend associate editor Jason Garcia pulls back the curtain on this family drama. Weaving together personal histories with economic analysis, the story tells readers the tale of ABC’s rise from a neighborhood tavern serving Air Force servicemen in Orlando to a retailing giant with 140 stores and more than $500 million in annual sales. Readers meet Jack “Big Jack” Holloway, the family patriarch and company founder who became ill and had the business wrested away from him, and learn of the struggle for control that ensued between Holloway’s son by one marriage and grandson by another. And they see how ABC has continued to evolve in the face of a new generation of competitors ranging from big-box behemoths such as Walmart to specialty retailers like Total Wine.
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ABC
Category
Print > Company Profile > More Than $3 Million Revenue > Southeast
Description
Publication name:
Florida Trend
Company:
Times Publishing
Winner Status
- Regional Silver Award
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