Downtown Wooster Merchant Collaboration of the Year — Call for Nominations

Downtown Wooster is strongest when our businesses work together. This award honors local businesses who joined forces in 2025 to create a collaborative promotion that energized downtown and delivered meaningful community impact.

Nominees must:

Include two or more locally owned, brick-and-mortar businesses in the C-4 Central Business District
Planned and carried out their own collaborative promotion in 2025
With a positive community impact
Demonstrate outcomes such as increased foot traffic, additional sales, and positive publicity

Award Details:
Three finalists will be announced in early January, with the winner revealed at our January 30th Annual Meeting. The winner will receive a $1,000 advertisement that promotes all the participant businesses and a press release.

Name

Name of Collaborative Event (e.g. Coffee Crawl)

Date(s) of the Event

Participating Businesses

Short description of the Event

Outcomes - what were the successes? (e.g. increased sales, visitors, publicity)

Photos, flyers, social media screenshots, and/or participant testimonials

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