Auto Care Association Opens 2025 Industry Awards Season
By Zoi Holloway
Bethesda, Md. – September 24, 2024 – The Auto Care Association today announced the launch of its 2025 industry awards season. Each year, the association recognizes numerous industry leaders with awards for their excellence in professional development, outstanding communication efforts and educational initiatives that support the advancement of the auto care industry and the next generation in auto care. This year’s awards include the Marketing and Communications Awards, the Impact: 4 Under 40 Awards, the Auto Care Education (ACE) Awards, and the Mort Schwartz Excellence in Education Award. The winners will be revealed during a new awards ceremony at the 2025 Auto Care Connect, taking place from May 12-15, 2025, in Phoenix, Ariz., where nearly 1,000 aftermarket executives will be in attendance.
Marketing and Communications Awards:
The Auto Care Marketing and Communications Awards are the premier recognition for marcomms and advertising campaigns within the industry. The awards recognize companies and agencies that run outstanding advertising, marketing and public relations campaigns in the automotive aftermarket throughout the past year. The marketing and communications awards cover several business-to-consumer and business-to-business categories. Campaigns must have launched between Jan. 1, 2024 - Dec. 31, 2024, and companies may submit for as many categories as they see fit. Applying companies must be Auto Care Association members. The fee is $149 per entry.
The Auto Care Marketing and Communications Awards are formerly known as the Women in Auto Care Automotive Communications Awards. Read the full announcement.
Learn more about Auto Care’s updated Marketing and Communications Awards.
Impact Awards:
The Auto Care Association’s Impact Award: 4 Under 40 award annually recognizes four people under the age of 40 who have made remarkable contributions within the auto care industry. These individuals have achieved success within their organizations through professionalism, hard work, dedication and remarkable abilities. They are shining stars, examples for others and exemplary representatives of our industry. The awards are presented and managed by the association's Marketing and Communications committee and the Young Auto Care Network Group (YANG).
Learn more about the Impact Award at autocare.org/impact-awards.
Auto Care Education (ACE) Award:
The Auto Care Education (ACE) Award recognizes companies (small, mid-size and large) dedicated to excellence in education, investing in the growth of knowledge and skills within their organization and/or throughout the industry. This may include employee training, customer education programs, programs for instructor and/or students, and other education programs for the industry at-large. Award winners will be selected by the Auto Care Association Education Committee.
Learn more about the ACE Awards at autocare.org/ace-award
The Mort Schwartz Excellence in Education Award
recognizes an individual who best advances the concepts and programs for education or continuing education in the North American auto care industry. Nominations should be submitted for the individual’s innovation, advancement or outstanding efforts in education and training programs, or scholarship fundraising efforts. Award winners will be selected by the Auto Care Association Education Committee.
Learn more about the Mort Schwartz Award at autocare.org/mort-schwartz-award.
More information about the 2025 industry awards, including entry requirements and eligibility, can be found at autocare.org/awards.
All award submissions must be completed by Friday, Dec. 20, 2024.