AEM Wins Agri-Marketing Assn. Award for Manufacturing Express Initiative

The Manufacturing Express Tour coordinated in 2024 by the Assn. of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) recently earned a “Best of NAMA” award from the National Agri-Marketing Assn. for the campaign’s success in support of the public engagement initiative which covered 20 states and made 80 stops.

The Assn. of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) recently announced that its communications, public affairs, and public relations teams has earned a “Best of NAMA” Award for its campaign in support of the AEM Manufacturing Express public engagement initiative. The Leawood, Kan., National Agri-Marketing Assn. (NAMA) presented AEM with the award during NAMA’s 2025 Agri-Marketing Conference, held April 9-11 in Kansas City, Mo.

The AEM Manufacturing Express tour covered 20 states and made stops at more than 80 equipment manufacturers’ facilities in the Midwest, South, Mid-Atlantic, and states around the Great Lakes in the summer and fall of 2024. AEM’s public relations campaign for the tour was recognized in the “Company or Producer-Funded PR Campaign directed to consumers.”

“The team at the Association of Equipment Manufacturers is incredibly honored to be recognized with a Best of NAMA award for their work on the Manufacturing Express,” said Megan Tanel, President & CEO of AEM. “Our team as well as the member companies who hosted us last summer, put in an extraordinary amount of work and passion to bring the Manufacturing Express events to life, and this recognition is a testament to their dedication and creativity in telling the story of the men and women who make up the modern off-road equipment manufacturing industry.”