It is truly an honor to be recognized by a colleague or peer for your outstanding work. The Exchange Awards is proud to be one of the few hospitality awards recognition programs that allows industry wide nominations from peers and colleagues.
The Nomination period for the Exchange Awards will be open July 1- 31, 2026. Only industry professionals with direct responsibility and oversight of beverage programs within the multi-unit/on-premise segment of national/strategic or regional accounts or supporting affiliated partners such as a third party marketing agency or a supplier partner with direct partnership to on-premise beverage programming are eligible to submit nominations.
Please submit your nomination via the nomination form which will be live on July 1. Please include all required documentation and requirements to complete the nomination for each category you are submitting.
Following verfication of the nominations received, they will be sent to our Awards Committee 1 for review and determination of the top 3 finalists in each category.
The 3 finalists in each category will then be asked to submit their own nomination paragraph and information. This will be added to their packets and sent to Awards Committee 2 for ranking and determination of the winner in each category.
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The individuals and finalists for the 2026 Exchange Awards will be celebrated on the last evening of HEE West.
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