By Chad Simon
 Jay Leno will be a special guest at the New Products Awards Breakfast, to be held before the start of the 2019 SEMA Show, Tuesday, November 5, at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino. |
 The New Products Awards recognize the most innovative and cutting-edge aftermarket products that will be for sale in 2019. |
Jay Leno will help kick off the opening day of the 2019 SEMA Show, Tuesday, November 5, as a special guest at the New Products Awards Breakfast. The awards recognize the most innovative and cutting-edge aftermarket products that will be for sale in 2019.
Each of the 16 award categories has one winner and two runners-up. Winners are selected based on a variety of factors, such as superiority of innovation, technical achievement, quality and workmanship, consumer appeal and marketability and more.
Product categories include:
- Collision Repair & Refinish
- Exterior Accessory Product
- Interior Accessory Product
- Mobile Electronics Product
- Off-Road/4-Wheel-Drive Product
- Performance-Racing Product
- Performance-Street Product
- Powersports Product
- Street Rod/Custom Car Product
- Tire and Related Product
- Tools and Equipment Product
- Van/Pickup/Sport-Utility Product
- Wheel and Related Product
- Engineered New Product
- Merchandising Display
- Packaging Design
Tickets to the event— to be held at 7:30 a.m., at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino—are free and available online when registering for your SEMA Show badge.
New Product entries submitted by SEMA- and TIA-member companies that are checked-in before 10:00 a.m., Monday, November 4, will be included in SEMA’s annual New Products Awards competition. Award winners will also be recognized at the annual SEMA Industry Awards Banquet the evening of Thursday, November 7.
For more information, visit the SEMA Show website.