NACS Industry Achievement Award

The NACS Industry Achievement Awards is the United States competition for the Global Achievement Award. Retail and supplier members will compete in the US and the retail winner and supplier winner will then move onto the Global Achievement Award competition held at the NACS Show.

The Global Achievement Award seeks to promote new ideas and information sharing in a global context to identify our industry's potential leaders.  The international competition is organized and administered through NACS in the United States, the Association of Convenience Stores in the United Kingdom, the Australasian Association of Convenience Stores in Australia and New Zealand and the Ontario Association of Convenience Stores in Canada.

2008 Topic
"One of the greatest challenges is to make sure that your product and service offering is relevant to the customer. You are now in charge of creating a process to assess whether your product offering is relevant to your customers - Present your approach"

How to Enter
Interested participants must complete the Application Form (PDF) and submit a white paper response to the year's competition question.  Answers must be less than 4,000 words.  Please submit all questions and application packets to Jenn Makarsky at jmakarsky@nacsonline.com or at (703) 518-4248. 

Rules and Requirements

• The NACS Industry Achievement Award is open to current employees of NACS retail and supplier member companies only.
  
• Applicants must be 21-36 years old.
  
• Each NACS retail and supplier company may submit only one entry. The company should determine the best entry to submit to NACS.
  
• The judges' decision is final.

Award
The winners of the NACS Industry Achievement Award for 2008 will receive a $250 gift certificate as well as a complimentary trip to the NACS Show in Chicago, IL to compete in the Global Achievement Award competition.

The winners of the Global Achievement Award will receive a complimentary trip to a global industry event to attend free of cost as well as receiving international recognition.