AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

General Releases | Awards & Recognition

Date	Title and Summary	Additional Formats
Toggle SummaryDecember 2018	Giftbeat, the premier trade publication serving the gift industry, voted Vera Bradley as the Vendor of the Year for 2018, an award given to the vendor that contributed the most to the reporting stores’ bottom lines.
Toggle SummaryDecember 2018	Tom Giacalone, our VP of Digital, has been appointed by his industry peers to serve on the National Retail Federation Digital Advisory Board (formerly known as the Shop.org Board of Directors).
Toggle SummaryOctober 2018	Fashion Group International honored Barbara Bradley Baekgaard and Vera Bradley with the Humanitarian Award at their annual “Night of Stars” event for their work in the fight against breast cancer.
Toggle SummaryAugust 2018	Congratulations to Emily Sanzone, our Top Accounts Director, who was named one of the specialty channel’s “40 under 40.” The Gift + Stationery 40 Under 40 Awards recognize the next generation of specialty retail industry leaders based on leadership qualities, creativity, innovative thinking and commitment to the industry.
Toggle SummaryJuly 2018	Town and Country Magazine named the Vera Bradley Travel Duffel one of eight “Best Weekender Bags.”
Toggle SummaryJuly 2018	Top Brands, Inc. named Vera Bradley “Supplier of the Year.”
Toggle SummaryJune 2018	Vera Bradley was once again named as one of Indiana's "Top Public Companies" by the Indiana Business Journal.
Toggle SummaryJune 2018	Greater Fort Wayne Inc. presented the Maclyn Parker Swagger Award for Community Vision and Leadership to Barbara Bradley Baekgaard, co-founder of Vera Bradley Inc. and driving force behind a new boutique hotel being built in downtown Fort Wayne.
Toggle SummaryMay 2018	Vera Bradley and Riddle & Bloom, our agency partner that helped execute our campus ambassador program, won the silver award for Best Millennial Campaign at the 2018 Ex Awards (the world’s largest recognition program for experiential marketing).
Toggle SummaryMay 2018	Patricia Miller, co-founder and current director of Vera Bradley, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Indiana University. Miller was Indiania’s first Secretary of Commerce, appointed in 2005.