ACPN Announces 2025 Content Excellence Award Winners
PHOENIX – May 21, 2025 – The Automotive Content Professionals Network (ACPN), a community of the Auto Care Association, announced the winners of the 2025 ACPN Content Excellence Awards at the annual Auto Care Connect event, which took place May 12-15, 2025, in Phoenix, Ariz. The ACPN Content Excellence Awards recognize both companies and individuals for excellence in the content management space.
The ACPN company-based awards recognize best-in-class examples of ACES® and PIES® data standards use and compliance as well as electronic cataloging and content in business-to-consumer (B2C) platforms in the automotive aftermarket. The ACPN individual-based award recognizes individuals who lead, innovate, and provide remarkable contributions to the ACPN and content management communities, content management and supporting technologies, and the auto care industry.
ACES® and PIES® Data Award
Year, Make, Model Applications Only (BaseVehicleID)
This category is intended to recognize excellent source data. This award judges ACES® and PIES® files on a variety of criteria that ACPN deems as essential when creating best in class ACES® and PIES® data for ACES® xml files that utilize year, make, model applications (BaseVehicleID) only.
The 2025 winners are:
- Gold: (Small, 10,000 – 50,000 applications) – Mevotech LP
- Gold: (Medium, 50,000 – 250,000 applications) – Continental Automotive Aftermarket
- Gold: (Large, Over 250,000 applications) – NTN Bearing Corporation
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ACES® and PIES® Data Award
Manufacturer/Equipment Model Applications Only (EquipmentBaseID)
This category is intended to recognize excellent source data. This award judges ACES® and PIES® files on a variety of criteria that ACPN deems as essential when creating best in class ACES® and PIES® data for ACES® xml files that utilize manufacturer/equipment model applications (EquipmentBaseID) only.
The 2025 winner is:
- Gold: (Over 500 applications) – Global Parts Distributors, LLC
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Web-based Catalog Award
This category is for catalog application lookup that is purely browser-based (websites) and does not require any special client-side app to be installed.
The 2025 winner is:
- Gold: Dorman Products, Inc.
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Trailblazer Award
The ACPN Content Excellence Trailblazer Award recognizes annually a single individual who leads, innovates, and provides remarkable contributions to the ACPN and content management communities, content management and supporting technologies, and the auto care industry. This award is presented and managed by the Automotive Content Professionals (ACPN) Leadership Council and the Technology Standards Committee (TSC).
The winner is: Luke Smith, chief technology officer, Momentum USA, Inc.
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Receiver’s Choice Award
The Receiver’s Choice Award recognizes organizations that are supplying high-quality content including ACES®, PIES®, digital assets and other customer specific formats. Honorees are selected by content receivers who support ACPN for their exemplary content and are leading the way in integrity, accuracy, timeliness, completeness, best practices and other proprietary specific judging criteria.
The winners are:
- Advance Auto Parts Presented Award to DRiV™ Content Team
- Aftermarket Auto Parts Alliance Presented Award to Perfect Stop by Terrepower
- AutoZone, Inc. Presented Award to PowerStop
- Epicor Software Corporation Presented Award to Dorman Products
- O'Reilly Auto Parts Presented Award to Mevotech LP
- PartsTech, Inc. Presented Award to Winhere Brake Parts, Inc.
- WHI Solutions Presented Award to Mevotech LP
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Learn more about all of the ACPN Content Excellence Awards here.