Bonnier Hot Shots

The nominations are in! Bonnier’s best in class contenders have been selected by the Bonnier Sales Awards jury for excellence in four categories: Field Sales Representative of the Year, Telephone Sales Representative of the Year, Sales Manager of the Year, and Rookie of the Year.  There will be one winner in each category; the Rookie of the Year will receive 3,000€, while the winners in the remaining three categories will each win 10,000€.

“We are enormously pleased,” says Jonas Eriksson, head of Bonnier Sales Awards. “Although this has been a tough year, we have received over 70 suggestions for nominations. Of those, we have chosen 14 final nominees. Given that there are nearly 1000 people within Bonnier working with sales, it is an incredible achievement to be nominated.”

Here are the year’s nominees in all four categories:

Rookie of the Year

Linn Weilar, SF Media, Sweden
Brooke Dubrowsky, Parenting Group, USA
Marc Macia, Transworld, USA

Sales Manager of the Year

Jonas Irebjörk, TV4, Sweden
Ann Sjöström, SF Media, Sweden
Mikael Solberg, Expressen, Sweden

Telephone Sales Representative of the Year

Kenth Johansson, Vi i Villa, Sweden
Patrick Notaro, Popular Science, USA
Päivi Säkkinen Ljunggren, Stockholm City, Sweden

Field Sales Representative of the Year

Mikaela Renvall, Bonnier Publications, Finland
Arild Lorenzen, Dagens Nyheter, Sweden
Wanda Andersson, Expressen, Sweden
Juha Tuominen, MTV3, Finland
Helene Grevelius, TV4, Sweden

The Bonnier Sales Awards, now in their second year, were established by Bonnier AB’s business leadership to promote and reward remarkable performance in the advertising business. All sales staff employed by a Bonnier company can participate in the competition, as long as they have met their overall budget for a specified nominating period.

Bonnier’s best and brightest also:

• Exhibit exemplary and inspiringbehavior with colleagues, business partners and customers
• Are valuable and committed team players
• Are creative and have a positive attitude
• Actively support joint business projects and sales opportunities in cooperation with other companies within Bonnier.

The winners will be announced on March 6 at a gala dinner in Stockholm City Hall’s Golden Hall.  The gala guests will be served the same menu given at last year's Nobel Prize banquet.