People Wins Four min ‘Sales Executive of the Year’ Awards

People is the most profitable U.S. magazine and had an excellent, +5.6% ad-page advertising 2010, so it was appropriate that the magazine did very well at min's seventh "Sales Executive of the Year" awards breakfast Thursday morning (June 2) at New York's Grand Hyatt. Karen Kovacs, who was promoted to People publisher in December 2010, was selected "Sales Team Leader of the Year" for a single brand.

Same honor went to Karin Tracy, publisher of spinoff People StyleWatch, who produced a +49.7% ad-page 2010, while Daniel Riley, group ad director for the People-flagshipped Time Inc. Style & Entertainment Group won for "Sales Team Leader"/multiple brands. Plus, People/Entertainment Weekly executive beauty director Evan Chodos was the "Salesperson of the Year"/multiple titles recipient.

Also in the Time Inc. "family" was InStyle associate publisher Timothy O'Connor's win for "Salesperson of the Year"/single title-500,000 circulation and above.

For the remaining winners and the 10 executives inducted into the min Sales Executive Hall of Fame, click here.

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