The entry deadline is fast approaching in The 18th Annual International Business Awards®, the world's premier business awards competition, which attracts nominations from organizations in more than 60 nations and territories each year.

Submit nominations in more than 400 business awards categories through 12 May to avoid late fees.

All individuals and organizations worldwide - public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small - may submit nominations to The International Business Awards. Late entries will be accepted through 16 June. Entry details are available at www.StevieAwards.com/IBA.

Juries featuring more than 150 executives around the world will determine the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award winners. Winners will be announced on 12 August, and celebrated at a gala banquet in Paris, France on 23 October, conditions permitting.

The International Business Awards recognize achievement in every facet of the workplace. Categories include:

• Management Awards for Executive of the Year in 35 industries, Chairman of the Year, Maverick of the Year, Woman of the Year, and more.
• COVID-19 Response Awards have no entry fees through the 12 May deadline. After that, there is a $55 late fee.
• Entrepreneur of the Year Awards in 35 industry categories and Founding Team of the Year in four industry groups.
• Company of the Year Awards in 35 industry categories and broken down by company size, as well as Startup of the Year, Most Innovative Company of the Year, Fastest Growing Company of the Year, and more.
• Customer Service Awards for Customer Service Department of the Year, Customer Service Team of the Year, and Customer Service Executive of the Year.
• Human Resources Awards for Human Resources Department of the Year, Human Resources Team of the Year, and Human Resources Executive of the Year.
• Information Technology Awards for IT Department of the Year, IT Team of the Year, IT Executive of the Year, and more.
• Marketing Awards for Marketing Department, Team, and Executive of the Year as well as 50 Marketing Campaign categories.
• New Product Awards for Product Management, Business Technology Solutions, Content & Content Technology Solutions, Education & Education Technology Solutions, and more.
• Public Relations Awards for Agencies, Departments, Teams, Individuals, and Innovation, as well as for PR Campaigns and Programs.
• Web Site, App, Event, Video and other media awards

The Stevie Awards has video resources on why and how to enter The 2021 International Business Awards:

• Reasons to Enter The 2021 International Business Awards
• How Past Winners Have Benefitted in The International Business Awards
• How to Choose Categories in The International Business Awards
• Tips to Help You Prepare Nominations

“We are excited to see what so many businesses across the globe were able to achieve during one of the toughest years in our lifetimes. Through the hardships, judges are seeing innovation and compassion for employees and customers from Stevie Awards entrants. We have expanded the time frame for eligibility for Stevie Awards nominations to include 2019 to give organizations a broader scope of work to be recognized for” said Stevie Awards President, Maggie Gallagher.

Stevie Award winners in the 2020 IBAs included Deutsche Telekom Services Europe (Slovakia), Ernst & Young (USA), IBM (USA), Facebook India Online Services (India), Freelancer.com (Australia), Ooredoo Group (Qatar), REMAP (Canada), Türkiye İş Bankası (Turkey), Thai Life Insurance (Thailand), Telecommunication Services Limited (Hong Kong), LLYC (Spain), Warner Media (USA), and many more.

Interested in entering The International Business Awards?

• DP DHL and UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention win top Stevie Awards
• Grand Stevie winners to be honored at a virtual award ceremony on 2 June

The Stevie® Awards have announced the Grand Stevie Award winners in the second annual Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards. The winners will be honored during a virtual award ceremony on 2 June.

The Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards, sponsored by the Ras Al Khaimah Chamber of Commerce & Industry, is an international business awards competition open to all organizations in 17 nations in the Middle East and North Africa. The focus of the awards is recognizing innovation in all its forms.

This year more than 400 nominations were considered in the judging process by more than 70 professionals, whose average ratings determined the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award winners announced last month. For a complete list of the 2021 Stevie Award winners, visit https://MENA.StevieAwards.com.

In addition to the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Awards, the top winner overall (total number of points conferred by total Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie wins) and the highest-scoring nominations are awarded the Grand Stevie Awards.

The two Grand Stevie Award winners are:

ORGANIZATION OF THE YEAR: DP DHL: which earned 26.5 award points for the achievements of their affiliates in Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The Germany-headquartered global logistics and transportation company is no stranger to the top honor in Stevie Awards competitions, having won numerous Organization of the Year honors in the German Stevie Awards, the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service, and other Stevie Awards programs.

HIGHEST-RATED NOMINATION OF THE YEAR: The “Stroke Golden Hour” nomination submitted by the UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention, in Dubai, received the highest average score from the judges (9.17 out of 10) in this year’s competition. The Gold Stevie winner for Excellence in Innovation in Government - Organizations with 100 or More Employees, the nomination describes the development of an IT solution that almost halved the “door to needle” treatment time for stroke victims at MOHAP facilities. One judge commented on the nomination, “A perfect example of an IT solution supporting a noble cause: reducing mortality and morbidity due to stroke. Using modern technologies like VR to assist patients is another welcome move.”

Stevie Award winners will be celebrated at a virtual awards ceremony on 2 June. Registration for the ceremony is ongoing.

“We are thrilled to announce the 2021 Grand Stevie Award winners. DP DHL and the UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention have proven to be exceptional in the eyes of Stevie Award judges around the globe,” said Maggie Gallagher, President of the Stevie Awards.

Complete information about the virtual awards ceremony is available at https://stevieawards.com/mena/tickets

The virtual ceremony will feature digital versions of all of the things that people love about Stevie Awards events, including networking, acceptance speeches, red carpet photographs, and red-carpet interviews.

If you, as a representative of the press, are interested in participating in the virtual award ceremony of the Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards on 2 June at 14 GST., please contact us at help+MENA@stevieawards.com.

The third edition of the Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards will open for entries in September 2021.

The Stevie® Awards, organizers of the world’s premier business awards programs, announced today that Thought Leadership Leverage (TLL), a consultancy that helps individual experts and organizations take their ideas to scale through thought leadership, will sponsor its awards programs.

TLL will work with the Stevie Awards team to create and promote categories related to thought leadership in its eight national and international awards programs. The first fruit of the partnership is a new category in The 18^th International Business Awards® for communications or public relations campaigns that create or further the thought leadership credentials or reputation of an individual or organization. TLL will next help create a number of categories for the 18^th Stevie Awards for Women in Business, which will begin accepting nominations in May.

“We are very pleased that Thought Leadership Leverage has agreed to partner with the Stevie Awards to create new categories in our competitions as recognition of achievement in thought leadership that did not exist in any of our programs thus far,” said Maggie Gallagher, Stevie Awards president. “We think the addition of thought leadership-related categories will serve to bring attention to worthy achievements in thought leadership generation, exposition, and promotion.”

TLL CEO and founder Peter Winick thinks the partnership with the Stevies will be a win for his firm’s clients. “There is no prominent international awards program to recognize individual and team achievement in organizational thought leadership – certainly nothing of the prominence of the Stevie Awards. The Stevies will help us to bring a new level of recognition to the achievements of our clients and other organizations and individuals.”

ABOUT THOUGHT LEADERSHIP LEVERAGE
Thought Leadership Leverage specializes in taking ideas to scale through thought leadership--creating impact and generating revenue for individuals and organizations. Over the past two decades, their clients have included New York Times best-selling business book authors, Thinkers 50 recipients, and Heads of Thought Leadership at some of the world's most respected organizations. CEO, Peter Winick, and COO, Bill Sherman, co-host the podcast "Leveraging Thought Leadership"—which has been recognized as one of the top podcasts that explores the business of thought leadership. Learn more at http://www.thoughtleadershipleverage.com

Winners of the 2021 Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service were announced in March, but winners of one special category, sponsored by longtime Stevie Awards sponsor Sales Partnerships, were just announced.

The Sales Partnerships Ethics in Sales Award recognizes organizations for demonstrating the highest ethical standards in sales. Nominees submitted case studies of achievement since the beginning of 2020 illustrating how and why they exhibited ethical sales practices.

The team at Sales Partnerships reviewed the nominations and chose the following three winners: 

GOLD STEVIE WINNER: Groove, San Francisco, CA

SILVER STEVIE WINNER: Wesley Financial, Franklin, TN

BRONZE STEVIE WINNER: One Vision Productions, Tucker, GA

Sales Partnerships, Inc., which provides turnkey, outsourced selling solutions, is a sponsor of the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service program for the fifth consecutive year.

Stevie Awards president Maggie Gallagher is looking forward to recognizing these winners during the program’s April 14 virtual awards ceremony.

“By their sponsorship of this award, Sales Partnerships demonstrates that they are not only dedicated to improving their clients’ sales results, but also to the association of ethical sales practices with practical success industrywide.  We applaud them for their dedication to this concept, and look forward to recognizing Groove, Wesley Financial, and One Vision Productions next week.”

Interested in entering the 2022 Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service?

The Stevie Awards has issued the call for entries for the sixth annual Stevie® Awards for Great Employers, which honor the world’s best companies to work for and the human resources teams, professionals, suppliers, and new products and services that help to create and drive great places to work.

All individuals and organizations worldwide - public and private, for-profit, and non-profit, large and small - may submit nominations to the Stevie Awards for Great Employers. The early-bird entry deadline, with reduced entry fees, is April 28. The final entry deadline is June 2, but late entries will be accepted through July 13 with payment of a late fee. Entry details are available at www.StevieAwards.com/HR.

An international judging panel of more than 50 executives will determine the Stevie Award winners. Finalists will be announced on August 19. Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award winners will be revealed and presented their awards at a gala event at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on October 1, conditions permitting.

The Stevie Awards for Great Employers recognize achievement in many facets of the workplace. Categories include:

• Employer of the Year Awards
• HR Achievement Awards
• HR Individual Awards
• HR Team Categories
• Solution Provider Awards
• Solutions, Implementations, and Training Programs or Media Awards
• COVID-19 Response Awards

There are many new categories in 2021 for HR achievements including Achievement in Managing a Remote Workforce, Achievement in Leadership Development for Racial/Ethnic Minorities, and Best Transformation Strategy. Two new categories for Solutions and Implementations include Remote Workforce Management Solution - New or New-Version and Implementation. Fourteen of the 16 HR Individual categories do not require payment of entry fees.

Winners in the 31 industry-specific Employer of the Year categories will be determined by a unique blend of public votes and professional ratings. Public voting will take place from July 19 - August 9.

Stevie Award winners in 2020 included Aflac (USA), AstraZeneca (Russia), Cathay United Bank (Taiwan), DHL Supply Chain U.K. and Ireland, Globe Telecom Inc. (Philippines), HUGO BOSS Textile Ind. Ltd., (Turkey), IBM (USA), McDonald’s (Poland), Opet (Turkey), Toyota Turkey, Wolters Kluwer’s ELM Solutions (USA), Wingstop Restaurants (USA), and many more.

Interested in entering the 2021 Stevie Awards for Great Employers?

The Stevie Awards have opened entries for The 18th Annual International Business Awards, the world's premier business awards competition, which attracts nominations from organizations in more than 60 nations and territories each year.

All individuals and organizations worldwide - public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small - may submit nominations to The International Business Awards. The early-bird entry deadline, with reduced entry fees, is 13 April. The final entry deadline is 12 May, but late entries will be accepted through 16 June with payment of a late fee. Entry details are available at www.StevieAwards.com/IBA.

Juries featuring more than 150 executives around the world will determine the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award winners. Winners be announced on 12 August, and celebrated at a gala banquet in Paris, France on 23 October, conditions permitting.

The International Business Awards recognize achievement in every facet of the workplace. Categories include:

• Management Awards 
• COVID-19 Response Awards
• Entrepreneur of the Year Awards
• Company of the Year Awards
• Customer Service Awards 
• Human Resources Awards 
• Information Technology Awards
• Marketing Awards 
• New Product Awards 
• Public Relations Awards 
• Web Site, App, Event, Video and other media awards

There are many new and revised features of The International Business Awards for 2021:

• Seven new marketing campaign/program categories, four new communications/public relations categories, three new website categories, and 13 new product and service categories.
• Nominations that won Gold, Silver, or Bronze Stevie Awards in The 2020 International Business Awards® may be nominated again in the 2021 IBAs, as long as they are submitted to categories different from those in which they won in 2020.

• There are no entry fees for nominations in the Company of the Year categories and other select categories.

• The Best of the IBA awards have been revised.  Fewer Grand Stevie Award trophies will be conferred. 

Stevie Award winners in the 2020 IBAs included Deutsche Telekom Services Europe (Slovakia), Ernst & Young (USA), IBM (USA), Facebook India Online Services (India), Freelancer.com (Australia), Ooredoo Group (Qatar), REMAP (Canada), Türkiye İş Bankası (Turkey), Thai Life Insurance (Thailand), Telecommunication Services Limited (Hong Kong), LLYC (Spain), Warner Media (USA), and many more.

Interested in entering The 2021 International Business Awards?

Winners of the 2021 People's Choice Stevie® Awards for Favorite Customer Service, a worldwide public vote, were announced today. Voting was conducted from February 1 through March 5, with the highest number of votes deciding the winners in 11 industry categories. More than 44,000 votes were cast this year.

All organizations honored in the Customer Service Department of the Year categories of this year’s Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service were eligible to be included in voting for the people’s choice awards. The Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service, now in their 15^th year, are the world’s top honors for customer service, contact center, business development, and sales professionals.

More than 2,300 nominations from organizations of all sizes, in virtually every industry, in 51 nations were evaluated in this year’s competition. Finalists were determined by the average scores of more than 160 professionals worldwide in nine specialized judging committees and were announced last month.

This year’s people’s choice winners, who will each receive the coveted crystal People’s Choice Stevie Award, are:

Airlines, Distribution & Transportation: Suddath
All Other Industries: MTM
Computer Services: Linode
Computer Software < 100 Employees: Timely
Computer Software > 100 Employees: Carbonite (an Opentext Company)
Financial Services < 100 Employees: Wells Fargo Merchant Services - Account Management
Financial Services > 100 Employees: PREMIER Bankcard
Healthcare & Pharma: Ortho Clinical Diagnostics
Public Services & Education: OmniUpdate + Destiny Solutions
Retail: Wayfair
Telecommunications: AireSpring

Nicknamed the Stevie® from the Greek word “crowned,” Stevie Award winners will be celebrated at a virtual awards ceremony on April 14. ^.Tickets for the event are now on sale. More than 500 Stevie Award winners and their guests from around the world are expected to attend.

The Stevie® Awards have announced the Grand Stevie Winners in the 15^th annual Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service, recognized as the world's top customer service awards and sales awards.

Nominees in the 2021 Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service were not able to apply for the Grand Stevie awards directly. Winners were determined by a points system based on the total number of awards won in the program, with a Gold Stevie win counting for three points, a Silver Stevie win for two points, and a Bronze Stevie win for 1.5 points. 

This year’s Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award winners in the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service were announced on February 1. The winners of the Grand Stevie Awards will be recognized during the program’s virtual awards ceremony on April 14.

Winners of the 2020 Grand Stevie Awards are:

1. DP DHL, worldwide, with 98.5 points. This is the ninth year in a row in which the multinational package delivery and supply chain management company, headquartered in Bonn, Germany, has won a Grand Stevie in the program, and the seventh year of the nine in which they placed first on the list of most honored organizations.
2. Sales Partnerships, Inc., Broomfield, Colorado, USA (66.5 points)
3. IBM, Armonk, New York, USA (48)
4. ValueSelling Associates, Rancho Santa Fe, California, USA (40)
5. Cinch Home Services, Inc., Boca Raton, Florida, USA (32.5)
6. Druva, Sunnyvale, California, USA (26)
7. TransPerfect, New York, New York, USA (25)
8. VXI Global Solutions, Los Angeles, California, USA (22)
9. Support Services Group, worldwide (21)
10. UPMC Health Plan, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (20.5)

More than 2,300 nominations from organizations in 51 nations were considered in this year’s competition. Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award winners were determined by the average scores of more than 160 professionals on nine specialized judging committees.

The upcoming Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service ceremony will be 100% virtual and while you won't be able to shake hands, there's so much more you can do on the Swapcard platform!

The Stevie Awards held various virtual awards ceremonies with Swapcard in 2020, making the transition from in-person to virtual events seamless. 

Interact during the ceremony with live chat, Q&A and polls and catch everyone's comments in the discussion. Network with other attendees through 1-to-1 video calls or private messages. Swapcard's artificial intelligence will help you save time & meet the right people by suggesting new connections!

Find your tribe in the virtual community with other Stevie Award winners.

Swapcard, the leading all-in-one technology platform for virtual, hybrid and in-person events, is proud to collaborate with the Stevie Awards for present and future virtual gatherings. The future of events is looking tech-centric - according to the CEIR Global Virtual Event Trends Report from January 2021, proudly sponsored by Swapcard, only 22% of organizers plan to abandon the virtual event channel once the pandemic is over!

So it's up to you to make sure you use the virtual platform to its full potential because there is so much technology can do for you. Come and discover even more valuable opportunities in a virtual world at Swapcard's upcoming event!

You're invited to connect with over 10,000 event professionals from around the globe in a virtual community later this month - come and meet your new boss, business partner, client or friend.

At Evolve 2.0 by Swapcard, taking place this February 23rd-25th, you'll find the most advanced networking opportunities in the industry, educational content and interactive sessions, a virtual marketplace of event tools and services, a job board to find new opportunities, and much more.

Come and learn from speakers like Corbin Ball, famous events consultant, Dahlia El Gazzar, Founder of DAHLIA+Agency, David Audrain, Executive Director of SISO, Kai Hattendorf, CEO of UFI, Narisa Wild, SVP Digital of Informa Markets... and many more! Check out the speakers & event schedule here.

February 26 deadline to nominate stories of ethical sales practices

Nominations in the 2021 (15^th annual) Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service have closed, but one special category sponsored by Sales Partnerships is still accepting nominations, with no entry fee.

Nominations for the Sales Partnerships Awards for Ethics in Sales will be accepted through Friday, February 26 at https://stevieawards.com/sales/nominate-2021-sales-partnerships-ethics-sales-award.

This award will recognize organizations for best practices and achievements in demonstrating the highest ethical standards in the sales industry. Entrants can submit specific examples, case studies, practices, etc. that illustrates why the organization being nominated should be considered an excellent example of best practices in sales. Achievement since the beginning of 2021 may be nominated.

Sales Partnerships, Inc. provides turnkey, outsourced selling solutions. Founder and CEO Fred Kessler said, “The Stevie Award for Sales & Customer Service has grown to be the premier honor for sales professionals worldwide, and the program has proven to be an outstanding platform on which Sales Partnerships can interact with sales leaders in many industries. The Sales Partnerships Award for Ethics in Sales recognizes companies who, like us, understand that being the best performing sales force also means having an uncompromising focus on selling ethically.”

“We are pleased that longtime Stevie Awards sponsor Sales Partnership has decided to sponsor this special award. The judges are eager to review these Ethics in Sales nominations,” said Stevie Awards president Maggie Gallagher.

Nominations in this category will be reviewed the week of March 1, and its winners announced March 22.

Winners in this category and all other categories in the 15^th Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service will be celebrated during a virtual awards ceremony on April 14.

Interested in entering the Sales Partnerships Awards for Ethics in Sales category?