2020 Azbee Awards of Excellence

Category

All Content > Individual Profile > Upper Midwest

Awarded to

Samantha Oller, Managing Editor; Jackson Lewis, Associate Editor

Entry details

CSP 2019 Retail Leader of the Year: Chet Cadieux

Issue or publication date: December 2019
Publication name: CSP
Publishing company: Winsight
Website home page: www.cspdailynews.com

Please describe the publication's mission and readership:

CSP serves over 100,000 retailers and suppliers to the convenience-store industry. CSP’s mission is to provide the latest and breaking news that effects the day-to-day business of c-store retailing, and providing insight, tips and ideas to help readers operate better stores and sell more products. CSP accomplishes this mission by reaching out to our readership in multiple way:
1. Digitally. CSPDailyNews.com and CSP Daily News e-newsletter provide readers with a daily dose or industry news, as well as breaking news and product-category-specific e-newsletters. Larger projects are expanded on through design-friendly digital features that can include subject-landing pages, slideshows, video, podcasts and more.
2. Print: CSP magazine is monthly publication that focuses on big-picture features and product-category-specific merchandising tips to improve business operations and sales.
3. Events: CSP hosts a well-rounded collection of large industry conferences that put a focus on networking and education. Our Outlook Leadership Conference is aimed at c-suite executives. Convenience Retailing University serves as a collection of product-category-specific breakout sessions that allow like-minded retailers to share ideas before coming together for big-picture general sessions that put those ideas into focus. Our smaller EduNetworking meetings are smaller events that allow attendees to focus specifically on their product category, be it Packaged Beverages, Foodservice, Tobacco or other major segments of the c-store industry.

Please describe the enterprising work that went into this entry and its significance or impact on readers:

The announcement of CSP's Retail Leader of the Year (RLOY) winner is the culmination of a yearlong review of the top chains in the convenience-store industry. For 2019, we chose Chet Cadieux as our winner based on his chain--QuikTrip's--recent growth, tradition of retail accolades and employment traditions of keeping employees a long time and promoting through the ranks.
Our annual profile of our RLOY seeks to get beyond the PR fluff and canned quotes, to get into what makes our winner tick. As a 30-year employee, Chet had much to tell!
One challenge this year was that Chet didn't want to be celebrated as an individual but rather as a member of a team that achieved its accomplishments as a whole. That forced a change to our tradition of featuring a photo of just the winner on our cover. We addressed that by making sure Chet stood out as a focal point, even as he stood among store associates. The resulting cover was overwhelming praised by readers, staff and QuikTrip itself.

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https://www.cspdailynews.com/2019-retail-leader-of-the-year

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