A&E Trophy

02/25/2026

It was an honor just to be nominated and we were even more excited to win! Thank you all for helping us grow and thrive in downtown Clayton for the past 18 years.

02/10/2026

Hey y'all, we are honored to have been nominated in the Best Professional Service Provider category for the Best of Downtown Clayton awards! We'd love to have your vote!

🎉 BEST OF DOWNTOWN CLAYTON 2025 — VOTING IS OPEN!

The nominations are in and the TOP FIVE businesses in each category are up for public vote! Now’s your chance to show some love to your Downtown favorites 💙

🏆 Vote in these categories:
🛍️ Best Place to Shop
🍹 Best Adult Beverage
🎉 Best Event
🥪 Best Lunch Spot
😊 Friendliest Staff
🪟 Best Window Display
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Most Family-Friendly Spot
💪 Best Fitness / Self-Care / Wellness Spot
📸 Most Instagrammable Spot
💑 Best Date Night
☕ Best Hot Drink
💼 Best Professional Service Provider

👉Click here to vote: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FPM835X
🗳️ Voting is open now through Monday, February 16.
Tag your favorite businesses and help us celebrate the very best of Downtown Clayton!

09/08/2025

🚨 New Product Alert! 🚨
Our A-Frame Folding Signs are here! 🙌 Perfect for sidewalks, storefronts, and events—available in black or white. Choose from frame-only or bundle with one or two custom-printed panels on durable corrugated plastic.

Easy to set up, fold, and move—your message gets noticed from every angle.
👉 Shop now and make your brand stand out!

Plastic A-frame folding sign available in white or black with frame-only or print bundle options. Perfect sandwich board for storefronts and events.

03/17/2025

We've set up a bracket challenge! Enter here for a chance to win the prestigious A&E Trophy Bracket Challenge Trophy! Password: WINNER

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03/06/2025

Discover high-quality trophies, awards, and custom engraving for every occasion. Celebrate achievements with our wide selection of designs. Shop now!

03/05/2025

Congratulations to recipients of the NC Pork Council's annual awards. It's always an honor to provide beautiful custom awards to recognize outstanding leaders throughout our state.

We hosted our annual Awards Luncheon last Thursday in conjunction with our Annual Conference and Bacon Bash.

We honored six exceptional people in the industry.

Ben Davis (far left) received the Emerging Leaders Award. The Emerging Leaders Award recognizes pork producers aged 40 or younger who have contributed to the NC pork industry and exhibits leadership potential.

Tammy Peterson (second from left) received the Award for Excellence in Innovation. This award recognizes progress in the pork industry through innovative techniques, applications and/or actions that include environmental stewardship, research, science and/or other advancements.

Jan Archer (third from left) received the Lois Britt Award. Lois Britt devoted her life to agriculture, education, and service of those people, organizations and institution in which she believed in and there were many. After Lois’s untimely death in 2005, the NC Pork Council executive committee established this award in Lois’s memory to recognize individuals like Lois for whom service to the pork industry and NC agriculture is a passion.

Everett Johnson (middle) received the Outstanding Pork Producer of the Year Award. The Outstanding Pork Producer of the Year honors a pork producer or family who has made significant contributions to the pork industry in NC.

Dexter Edwards (second from right) received the NC Pork Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame recognizes persons with long and outstanding service to North Carolina’s pork industry and the North Carolina Pork Council.

Dr. Randy Jones (right) received the W.W. Shay Award for Industry Distinction. This award honors an individual who has exhibited outstanding service to the pork industry as an employee of a pork industry company or who has demonstrated significant support for the industry in a distinctive way. It is named for William Warden Shay, the state’s first swine extension officer.

We are so incredibly proud of all of our award recipients. They are stewards of the industry and what make NC Pork so great!

We will be sharing their award videos throughout the month so keep watching to learn more.

02/26/2025

It's Battle of the Books time in Johnston County!

02/23/2025

While we ship trophies all over the country, we sure do love seeing the ones that stay in our hometown. Congrats guys!

12/13/2024

There's still plenty of time to order custom gifts for Christmas! You can even order online and have them shipped from www.aetrophy.com and WhiskeyWare! If you are looking for something specific, send us a message and we'll be glad to help you find it.

11/20/2024

Want to feel better on this rainy, gloomy day? Come by and choose a child from our Angel Tree and go shopping! We still have plenty of cards on the tree - gifts are due Friday, December 6th.

11/14/2024

It's Angel Tree time at A&E! Come by and select a child's card from the tree and help make Christmas a little brighter for foster children in Johnston County.