Anglesea newsagent a finalist for consecutive state gong

ANGLESEA News & Lotto is in the running for back-to-back Victorian and Australian Newsagents’ Association (VANA) honours after being named state finalists once again this year.

Led by Paul and Corinne Nigro, the Anglesea institution was announced as finalists on Monday morning by VANA in both the ‘My Local Community Newsagent’ and ‘Victorian Newsagent of the Year’ categories for 2023.

Anglesea News & Lotto has been a finalist in the Victorian Newsagent of the Year in both 2021 and 2022 and were the inaugural winner of the ‘My Local Community Newsagent’ in 2022.

After tasting success with their first nomination for the community newsagent category, Mrs Nigro said it would be an honour to take out the state gong once again.

“We are pretty chuffed to be nominated again.

“We certainly couldn’t do it without our staff and the fantastic community.

“The other newsagents are so worthy of the titles, so to get a win again would be amazing.”

Mrs Nigro said the key to Anglesea News & Lotto’s continued success is being proactive and willing to change for their customer’s needs.

“We try our absolute best to understand and change accordingly to our customers.

“COVID really highlighted it – we had to mix up some things and worked with other businesses within our community who couldn’t stay open.

“People come down to Anglesea to disconnect and reconnect – they get off the phones and buy books, puzzles, magazines and family games.

“It’s about us being a hub for our community.

“It’s easy because we love what we do and we love our community.”

The Highton Newsagency was also a finalist for the ‘Victorian Newsagent of the Year’ category.

All divisional winners will be announced on August 19 at the Arts Centre Melbourne.

Anglesea News & Lotto can be found at 89 Great Ocean Road, Anglesea Victoria 3230.