ACPN Announces 2026 ACPN Content Excellence Award Winners
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ATLANTA – May 22, 2026 —The Aftermarket Content Professionals Network (ACPN), a community of the Auto Care Association, announced the winners of the 2026 ACPN Content Excellence Awards at the annual Auto Care Connect educational event, which took place in May 11-14, 2026 in Atlanta, Georgia. 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 B2C platforms in the 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 2026 winners are:
- Gold: (Small, 10,000 – 50,000 Applications) – Winhere Brake Parts, Inc.
- Gold: (Medium, 50,000 – 250,000 Applications) – Winhere Brake Parts, Inc.
- Gold: (Large, Over 250,000 Applications) – NTN Bearing Corporation
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 2026 winner is:
- Gold: (Over 500 Applications) - Global Parts Distributors, LLC
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 2026 winners are:
- Gold: Dorman Products, Inc.
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 Aftermarket Content Professionals (ACPN) Leadership Council and the Technology Standards Committee (TSC).
The 2026 winner is:
- Jason Riegel, MAAP, ACP
Receiver’s Choice Awards
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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 2026 winners are:
- Advance Auto Parts Presented Award to Trensor Content Team
- Aftermarket Auto Parts Alliance Presented Award to Global Parts Distributors, Inc.
- AutoZone, Inc. Presented Award to Holley Performance
- Epicor Software Corporation Presented Award to AutoPartSource
- Genuine Parts Company Presented Award to Premium Guard Inc.
- HDA Truck Pride Presented Award to Dayco
- O'Reilly Auto Parts Presented Award to Dorman Products
- PartsTech, Inc. - An OEC Company. Presented Award to PowerStop, LLC
- The Pronto Network Presented Award to PowerStop, LLC
- WHI Solutions Presented Award to Melling
Learn more about the all the ACPN Content Excellence Awards at autocare.org/acpn/awards.
