Progressive Grocer is seeking your help in compiling our annual list of leading women in the supermarket industry, to be featured in our annual Top Women in Grocery issue. In a business where males have traditionally far outnumbered females, we recognize the women who are helping initiate change. These women represent all major sectors of the grocery industry - retailers, suppliers, and wholesalers - in three distinct categories:

1. Senior Level Executives (Retailers, Suppliers, & Wholesalers)
2. Rising Stars (Retailers, Suppliers, & Wholesalers; Job titles above Store Managers but below Vice President)
3. Store Managers (Retailers only)

SELECTION PROCESS: We ask for nominations of the female movers and shakers who have demonstrated outstanding leadership and wielded substantial influence in their companies and in the industry at large during the previous year; and who are also deeply involved in the communities they serve and in philanthropic activities.

DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 1, 2010

If you have any questions, please contact us at womeningrocery@progressivegrocer.com

Click here for the 2009 Results

For nearly 15 years, Progressive Grocer has pioneered this distinguished industry awards program that recognizes overall excellence in category management, saluting the benchmark companies whose innovation and commitment to this critical business practice is setting the pace for leadership and vision.

All entries are evaluated against three important criteria:

1. Innovation
2. Delivery of measured results
3. Feedback from retailers

We devote one issue a year to presenting our new slate of Category Captains' award-winning programs to bring supermarket industry executives up to speed on everything they need to know about the future of category management. We encourage you to enter.

We will begin accepting submissions May 1, 2010.

If you have any questions, please contact us at categorycaptains@progressivegrocer.com

It's your chance to nominate your new product(s). Products must be geared toward consumers and have been introduced since the previous year. Products will be judged on several criteria: originality, packaging, and merchandising.

We will ask for a Product Description / Merchandising Programs (No more than 75 words) and for you to email us an image (300 dpi, jpg, tif, or eps) of the product.

Progressive Grocer will profile its 2010 Green Grocer award winners in its March print edition, which will be enhanced with supplemental coverage on its Web site. As in years past, all Green Grocer award winners will be honored at Progressive Grocer's annual Corporate Social Responsibility reception and dinner.

Deadline for submissions is January 8, 2010.

Take Pride and Share Your Most Innovative Store Design with the Industry

You may also just happen to be recognized as one of the visionary leaders in grocery store design when you enter the Progressive Grocer Store Design Contest.

Five categories -- including new ground-up construction, as well as three budget levels ranging from modest to “sky’s the limit” -- give operators of every shape and size a chance to be recognized. Enter today!