BROOKFIELD, Wis. — Rural Lifestyle Dealer, a Lessiter Media publication, earned a Silver AZBEE award in a national competition sponsored by the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE). The annual awards honor excellence in the business, trade and specialty press. This year 1,144 entries were submitted across three overall excellence categories, 24 print categories, 22 design categories and 28 online categories.

Rural Lifestyle Dealer’s feature story about the 2015 Dealerships of the Year also recently received a Gold award in regional competition. The story in the fall 2015 issue profiled PrairieCoast Equipment as the multi-store award recipient and Kelly Tractor & Equipment as the single-store award recipient. The feature included extensive coverage in the print issue as well as video interviews that are archived on the website.