2015 Better Homes and Gardens Best New Product Award Winners and 2015 BrandSpark Most Trusted Awards Winners Celebrated at an Event in New York

NEW YORK--()--Better Homes and Gardens, along with leading market research firm BrandSpark International, celebrated the winners of the 2015 Better Homes and Gardens Best New Product Awards and 2015 BrandSpark Most Trusted Awards winners at an event at the Gansevoort Park last night. Representatives from winning brands including Olay, Maybelline, Listerine, all, Clean & Clear, St. Ives and gardein attended the event.

The Best New Product Awards (BNPAs) is the leading consumer-voted CPG awards program in North America, honoring consumer products in the categories of Beauty, Food & Beverage, Health & Personal Care, Household and Kids. The complete list of this year’s winning products can be found at: www.BestNewProductAwards.com.

The winning products were determined solely by more than 70,000 consumers who participated in an extensive nationwide survey, conducted by independent marketing research firm BrandSpark International in partnership with Better Homes and Gardens. The 2015 survey had 294 entries and 93 winning products across a range of categories. Better Homes and Gardens will showcase the winners and select insights within its print, broadcast and digital properties.

The event also honored the 2015 BrandSpark Most Trusted Awards winners as voted on by 80,000 Americans. Consumer Packaged Goods brands in 101 categories were named and the complete list can be viewed at www.BrandSparkMostTrusted.com

“We are delighted to toast this year’s winners of the Better Homes and Gardens Best New Product Awards and BrandSpark Most Trusted,” said Robert Levy, President and CEO of BrandSpark International and Founder of the Best New Product Awards. “Recognizing and honoring trust and innovation is an effective way to encourage manufacturers to continue to create new products consumers will use regularly and grow to depend on.”

Consumers can enter the “Best New Product Awards Shopping Spree Sweepstakes” and win $1500 to purchase all 93 winning products. The sweepstakes is currently live and runs through June 30th. For more information about the Better Homes and Gardens Best New Product Awards winners, visit: www.BestNewProductAwards.com.

Brands interested in entering the 2016 Better Homes and Gardens Best New Product Awards should visit www.bestnewproductawards.biz/usa

About Better Homes and Gardens

Better Homes and Gardens serves, connects and inspires readers who infuse color into each aspect of their lives. Reaching 40 million readers a month via the most trusted print magazine, the brand also extends across a robust website, multiple social platforms, tablet editions, mobile apps, broadcast programs and licensed products. Better Homes and Gardens fuels our reader’s passions to live a more colorful life through stunning visuals, a balance of substance and surface and a blend of expert and reader ideas. Better Homes and Gardens is published twelve times a year by Meredith Corporation [NYSE: MDP], with a rate base of 7.6 million. For more information, visit www.bhg.com.

About BrandSpark International

BrandSpark International is a leading new product innovation research and brand strategy company. Its comprehensive and innovative research approach gets at the heart of how consumers think, why they act the way they do, and what clients need to do about it. BrandSpark has successfully developed the Best New Product Awards and BrandSpark Most Trusted Awards global programs to help consumers make better decisions and help marketers improve the success of new product launches. BrandSpark has also just launched Shopper Army, a curated and highly engaged shopper community that has been crafted to give a voice to shoppers and create new possibilities for marketers to strengthen and refine their new product launches. For more information about BrandSpark please visit www.BrandSpark.com and for more information about Shopper Army, please visit ShopperArmy.com/Brands.

Contacts

Spotlight Media Relations
Jill Budik, 212-489-8774
jill@spotlightmediarelations.com
or
Better Homes and Gardens
Lauren Doyle, 212-551-7087
lauren.doyle@meredith.com

Contacts

Spotlight Media Relations
Jill Budik, 212-489-8774
jill@spotlightmediarelations.com
or
Better Homes and Gardens
Lauren Doyle, 212-551-7087
lauren.doyle@meredith.com