For Immediate Release – April 21, 2025

Contact:
Brian Otten, Marketing Director
Greater Wausau Chamber of Commerce
715-848-5947 | botten@wausauchamber.com

Chamber names Best of Show recipients at Business EXPO

ROTHSCHILD — The Greater Wausau Chamber of Commerce named the recipients of the 2025 Best of Show Awards at the annual Business EXPO held at the Central Wisconsin Convention + Expo Center in Rothschild on Thursday, April 17. Recipients were named in four different categories at the event.

Exhibitors at the EXPO were judged by panel of volunteers on how visually exciting their booth looked, the originality and uniqueness of their display and how well it creates traffic. The awards were sponsored by Fully Promoted of Wausau.

The recipients in each of the categories were:

• Overall: Northwest Tool & Manufacturing Company Inc
• Best Theme: The Children’s Imaginarium
• Attention Strategy: Patriot K9s of Wisconsin Inc
• Eats & Treats: CHAR Grillhouse

Interviews with each of the recipients can be viewed on the Chamber’s Facebook page and YouTube channel.

The Chamber’s Business EXPO is the largest chamber event of its kind in the country and featured more than more than 240 businesses last week.

The Business EXPO was sponsored by M3 Insurance - Wausau at the presenting level, The Dirks Group, SDS Painting Company and Vitality Bar at the platinum level, by Ho-Chunk Gaming-Wittenberg and SUN Printing at the gold level, American Family Insurance – David Cooper Agency, In The Lite Electric, Jim Kryshak Jewelers, Northwest Tool & Manufacturing Company Inc, Spectrum Insurance Group LLC-Wausau and Yach’s Body & Custom at the silver level. Media sponsors for the events included Midwest Communications, The Business News and WAOW News 9. The printed map sponsor was RotoGraphic Printing Inc. and the Best In Show Awards sponsor was Fully Promoted-Wausau.

Caption for BestInShow25: A booth hosted by Northwest Tool & Manufacturing Company Inc was named the recipient of a Best of Show Award in the Overall category at the Greater Wausau Chamber of Commerce’s Business EXPO 2025 on Thursday, April 17, 2025.

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The Greater Wausau Chamber of Commerce is the source for business information in the Wausau Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). The organization has earned a 5-Star Accreditation, one of only two chambers in the state with that designation. The Chamber strengthens member businesses and enhances the region by building business success. For more information on the Greater Wausau Chamber of Commerce, visit us online at www.wausauchamber.com or call 715-845-6231.