--- title: Call for Entries Issued for Sixteenth Annual International Business Awards® description: Entries are now being accepted in the 16th Annual International Business Awards. Nomination options and awards categories have been greatly expanded for 2019. image: https://blog.stevieawards.com/hubfs/iba%2028.jpg --- [![stevie-awards-full-logo](https://blog.stevieawards.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Stevie%20Awards%20Blog%20Theme%20Files/stevie-awards-full-logo.png?width=347&height=70&name=stevie-awards-full-logo.png "stevie-awards-full-logo")](http://stevieawards.com) Click to View Posts by Stevie® Awards Categories # Call for Entries Issued for Sixteenth Annual International Business Awards® Posted by [Maggie Gallagher](https://blog.stevieawards.com/blog/author/maggie-gallagher) on Thu, Mar 21, 2019 @ 10:45 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) **The Stevie® Awards has opened entries for The 16th Annual [International Business Awards](http://www.stevieawards.com/iba), the world's premier business awards competition, which attracts nominations from organizations in more than 70 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 10 April. The final entry deadline is 8 May, but late entries will be accepted through 12 June with payment of a late fee. Entry details are available at [www.StevieAwards.com/IBA](http://www.stevieawards.com/iba).** **![iba 28](https://blog.stevieawards.com/hs-fs/hubfs/iba%2028.jpg?width=1500&name=iba%2028.jpg)** Juries featuring more than 150 executives will determine the Stevie Award winners. The Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award winners will be announced pm 13 August. Stevie Award winners will be presented their awards at a gala banquet in Vienna, Austria on 19 October. The International Business Awards recognize achievement in every facet of the workplace. Categories include: - [Management Awards](http://stevieawards.com/iba/management-awards-categories)  - [Entrepreneur of the Year Awards](https://stevieawards.com/iba/entrepreneur-awards-categories) - [Company of the Year Awards ](http://stevieawards.com/iba/companyorganization-awards-categories) - [Customer Service Awards](http://stevieawards.com/iba/customer-service-awards-categories)  - [Human Resources Awards](http://stevieawards.com/iba/hr-awards-categories)  - [Information Technology Awards](http://stevieawards.com/iba/it-awards-categories) - [Marketing Awards](http://stevieawards.com/iba/marketing-awards-categories)  - [New Product Awards](http://stevieawards.com/iba/new-product-product-management-awards-categories)  - [Public Relations Awards](http://stevieawards.com/iba/pr-awards-categories)  - [Web Site Awards, Smartphone and Tablet App, and other media awards](http://stevieawards.com/iba/web-site-app-video-annual-report-other-publications-live-event-awards-categories) **There are many new and revised features of the IBAs for 2019:** - A variety of new categories, including the **IT categories** Best Technical Support Strategy and Implementation and Best Technical Support Solution. In categories for business-related media, there are many new Live Event, Publication, and Video categories. - **Entry fees have been eliminated for nominations to the Company of the Year categories.** Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie winners in these these 35 by-industry categories will again be included in the worldwide public vote called the People’s Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite Companies. - In the Marketing, New Product & Service, and Public Relations categories,** nominees may now submit a video of up to five minutes in length, instead of the traditional written Stevie Awards essay or case study.** Stevie Award winners in the 2018 IBAs included DHL Express (worldwide), Dubai Health Authority (United Arab Emirates), GXEVER (China), iFinance Canada, Kia Motors Corporation (South Korea), LLORENTE & CUENCA (Spain), Megaworld Foundation (Philippines), NBCUniversal (USA), Net World Sports (Wales), Shinhan Bank (South Korea), Telkom Indonesia, and many more. 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