The prizes of the prestigious journalistic competition "Business Medium of the Year 2018" are distributed. It happened on Thursday, May 23, in the premises of the Devín Hotel in Bratislava.

Until the 16th year, the competition entries could be submitted by agencies, companies, as well as state and non-governmental organizations, which were judged by a 5-member expert jury in 15 categories. The Regional Tourism Organization (KOCR) Trenčín region applied for the favor with the bimonthly Trenčín region.

In competition with major companies from the private and public sectors (Kaufland, Lidl, Billa, Henkel, the National Motorway Company and others), the bimonthly Trenčín scored the region again. After last year's 3rd place in the Corporate Newspapers category, he jumped one step higher in the ranking. The companyové noviny Team: Východoslovenská energetika took the first place, and the newspaper took the third place - We are Retic.

The festive atmosphere of the gala evening and the award ceremony were completed by the singer Lucia Lužinská, opera hope and the winner of the Antonín Dvořák International Singing Competition in Karlovy Vary, Linda Mellenová, but also Terezka Čikošová, who enchanted the judges in The Voice competition. Editor-in-chief Radovan Stoklasa took over the prize for 2nd place for the bimonthly Trenčín region. "I am pleased that after a year we have again attracted a professional jury, for which it belongs thanks to the entire editorial team, contributors, but also our readers. It is also a challenge for us to do our job at least as well as before. Our newspapers come regularly to more than 110,000 households. They map tourism in a region that is extremely rich in history, traditions, personalities. The Trenčín region has much to be proud of, thanks to the activities of KOCR, something is still happening here and we try to offer it to readers in a non-traditional way. Together we discover what is around us and we don't even know about it. "

Juraj Gerlice , chairman of KOCR Trenčín region, also did not hide his joy from improving last year's bronze section. "The bimonthly Trenčín region is very popular with the reading base. We regularly receive letters from our readers, who positively evaluate the varied and engaging content of our newspapers. We really appreciate the award in the Corporate Medium of the Year competition. It is proof that the quality work of our editorial team was also noticed by the professional public. "

According to the director of the competition Monika Kozelová from the civic association Klub Corporate Media, the event is intended for a wide range of forms of corporate communication. "We offer space for corporate print media for clients, suppliers, employees. Leaflets, brochures, magazines and company calendars are represented in the categories, we pay attention to communication in the online environment. Company or product websites, Facebook and Instagram profiles are already an integral part of comprehensive company communication. Most importantly, however, we offer space for creativity, new trends and healthy competition, and this moves the event forward qualitatively. "

Business newspaper category:

1st place: TEAM: - Východoslovenská energetika

2nd place: Trenčín region - Regional tourism organization Trenčín region

3rd place: WE ARE RETIC - Retic sro