Best In Show Award recipients share their EXPO strategies
The Greater Wausau Chamber of Commerce is interviewing several of last year's Best In Show recipients. The first of these interviews, with Patriot K9s of Wisconsin, offers a recap of their win and shares how non-profits benefit from being a part of the Chamber's annual Business EXPO.
The Chamber will name the recipients of the 2026 Best In Show Awards at Business EXPO 2026 to be held at the Central Wisconsin Convention + Expo Center in Rothschild on Thursday, April 16. Recipients will be named in four different categories at the event.
Exhibitors at the EXPO will be judged by a panel of volunteers on how visually exciting their booth looked, the originality and uniqueness of their display and how well it creates traffic. The awards are sponsored this year by New Pulse Marketing.
The Greater Wausau Chamber of Commerce named the recipients of the 2025 Best In Show Awards at the annual Business EXPO. Recipients were named in four different categories at the event.
The recipients in each of the categories in 2025 were:
- Overall:Â Northwest Tool & Manufacturing Company Inc
- Best Theme: The Children’s Imaginarium
- Attention Strategy:Â Patriot K9s of Wisconsin Inc
- Eats & Treats:Â CHAR Grillhouse
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