Rochester Business Journal

Wegmans Food Market Inc. (www.wegmans.com) won the Gold overall award Tuesday at the 2011 Rochester Business Journal Best of the Web Competition.

More than 325 people attended the event and workshop at the Rochester Plaza Hotel.

United Way of Greater Rochester Inc. (www.uwrochester.org) received the Silver award and Finger Lakes Tourism Alliance (www.fingerlakes.org) won the Bronze.

The category winners were:
Banking and finance: Genesee Regional Bank (www.grbbank.com)
Business and professional services: CaterTrax (www.catertrax.com)
Education: Simon Graduate School of Business (www.simon.rochester.edu)
Government and economic development: Govistics (www.govistics.com)
Health care: Rochester General Health System (www.rochestergeneral.org)
Hospitality/tourism: New York’s Finger Lakes (www.fingerlakes.org)
Manufacturing: Constellation Brands Inc. (www.cbrands.com)
Non-profit (cultural): Memorial Art Gallery (www.mag.rochester.edu)
Non-profit (human services) United Way of Greater Rochester (www.uwrochester.org)
Real estate and construction: Home Properties Inc. (www.homeproperties.com)
Retail: Wegmans (www.wegmans.com)
Best Web design firm: Mason Selkowitz Marketing (www.msmmarcom.com)

In addition, Capstone Information Technologies Inc. (www.rochestercomputersupport.com) received Digital Rochester’s Business Transformation Award.

Neal Schaffer, president of California-based Windmills Marketing LLC., gave the keynote speech and talked about using social media for business. He also conducted a workshop on “Use Social Media to Drive Your Business” following the breakfast awards event.

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