A packed room at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City paid witness to the induction of seven magazine publishing luminaries into the min Sales Executive Hall of Fame (stay tuned for pictures of the event):

- Summit Business Media's Bill Reilly, most famous for building Primedia from its birth until 1999, when it topped $1.7 billion in revenues.
- Margery Gladstone, publishing director at Fairchild for DNR and Menswear Magazine and a member of the legendary (and unofficial) Woman's Day alumni group.
- Richard Porter, CEO of Publishing Group of America, whose brands appear in 1,700 magazines nationwide and hit 9 million readers--each.  Also a member of the Woman's Day alumni group.
- Jeannine Shao-Collins, senior vice president and group publisher of Ladies' Home Journal and More.  LHJ is celebrating its 125th anniversary next year.
- Fabio Freyre, currently a "free agent", spent 16 years taking Time Inc.'s Sports Illustrated to the top.
- Tom Beusse, also a "free agent" after guiding Time4 Media through a successful sale to Bonnier in January.
- Jim Fishman, vice president and group publisher of AARP The Magazine, which has gone from 17 million to 31.5 million readers under his tenure.
- And Cathie Black, president of Hearst Magazines, was given our "Mustang" award for rising up the sales ranks to conquer and lead a major magazine company.

Read more about these amazing sellers in our current "Best Sellers" issue of the min's Advertising Report.

Congratulations to our Hall-of-Famers!

Our Salesperson of the year was Mark Magnani, director of integrated sales and marketing at Reader's Digest. 

The honorable mentions were Richard Janniello (senior account manager at Prevention), Rick Bald (Midwest director at Wired), Dan McIntyre (wine & spirits director at GQ), Kimberly Connaghan (associate publisher at National Geographic Traveler), and Chad Carr (executive fashion/luxury goods director at Self).

Our sales team leader of the year for a launch was William Li, publisher of Men's Vogue.

Our honorable mention in this category was Carol Campbell Boggs, publisher of Hallmark Magazine (which held a very nice luncheon last week--see the business casual section article here).

The sales team leaders of the year for single titles were Steve Beyer (publisher of World Trade Magazine), Jacqueline Hernandez-Fallous (publisher of People en Espanol), and Mary Morgan (vice president and publisher of Redbook). 

The honorable mentions were Andrew Amill (publisher of WeightWatchers), Beth Brenner (publisher of Domino), Chris Guilfoyle (publisher of Every Day with Rachael Ray), Sally Preston (senior vice president and publisher of Martha Stewart Living) and Valerie Salembier (senior vice president and publisher of Harper's Bazaar).

The sales teams of the year were at Men's Vogue and Forbes.com.

The honorable mention went to New England Home.

The multiple titles sales team leaders of the year were Jim Taylor (vice president and publisher of Town & Country, among other titles) and Michael Tessalone (group publisher at LCGC and Spectroscopy).

The honorable mentions were Paul Caine (publisher of the People group), Jonathan Chalon (group publisher of Broadcast Engineering), and Dave Watt (publisher of SI Kids and SIKids.com).

Again, congratulations to all the winners and honorable mentions.  To read more about these top sellers, see the latest issue of min's Advertising Report.