--- title: Grand Stevie® Winners Announced in 21st International Business Awards® description: The Stevie® Awards have announced the winners of six Grand (“best in show”) Stevie Award trophies in The 2024 International Business Awards®, the world’s leading business awards competition. image: https://blog.stevieawards.com/hubfs/IBA24/IBA24%20Winners%20Announced%20-%20Rectangle%20(4).png --- [![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 # Grand Stevie® Winners Announced in 21st International Business Awards® Posted by [Maggie Gallagher](https://blog.stevieawards.com/blog/author/maggie-gallagher) on Tue, Sep 03, 2024 @ 09:00 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) The Stevie® Awards, organizers of the world’s premier business awards programs, have announced the winners of six Grand (“best in show”) Stevie Award trophies in The 2024 (21st Annual) [International Business Awards](http://www.stevieawards.com/iba)®, the world’s leading [business awards](http://www.stevieawards.com/) competition. Nominees in the 2024 IBAs were not able to apply for Grand Stevie Awards directly. Winners were determined by a points system based on the total number of awards won in the IBAs 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, as well as having the highest average score in selected categories. ![IBA24 Winners Announced - Rectangle (4)](https://blog.stevieawards.com/hs-fs/hubfs/IBA24/IBA24%20Winners%20Announced%20-%20Rectangle%20(4).png?width=1200&height=627&name=IBA24%20Winners%20Announced%20-%20Rectangle%20(4).png) This year’s Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award winners in The International Business Awards [were announced](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2024/08/14/2930105/0/en/Stevie-Awards-Announce-Winners-in-The-21st-Annual-International-Business-Awards-from-Across-the-Globe.html) on 14 August. They and the winners of the Grand Stevies announced today will be recognized during an awards gala in Istanbul, Türkiye, on 11 October. **Winners of the 2024 Grand Stevie Awards are:** *Organization of the Year**** ***With 55 award points earned by Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie wins by multiple units under its umbrella, [Ayala Land](https://www.ayalaland.com.ph/), a subsidiary of Ayala Corporation of the Philippines, is the most honored organization in The 2024 International Business Awards®. ***Most Honored Marketing Agency ***[Lounge Group](https://lounge.hu/), one of the biggest full-service communications agencies in Hungary, earned 20 award points with four Gold and four Silver Stevie wins on behalf of clients Budapest Airport and MVM Group. This is the first-ever Grand Stevie win for Hungary. ***Most Honored Public Relations Agency ***[Weber Shandwick](https://webershandwick.com/)’s office in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, wins with 34 award points earned on behalf of a single client, [Miral Destinations](https://miral.ae/miraldestinations/), a leading creator of immersive destinations and experiences. This marks the seventh Grand Stevie Award won by Weber Shandwick over the years, and the first since 2017. ***Highest-rated Nomination of the Year ***There is a tie for this Grand Stevie prize this year, with both nominations receiving average scores from the judges of 9.86 out of a possible 10. - [LLYC, Llorente y Cuenca](https://llyc.global/en/), founded in Madrid, Spain, and now with 16 offices in 13 countries, earns a Grand for its nomination “StepbyWater,” winner of the Gold Stevie Award for Communications or PR Campaign of the Year - Digital Creativity, on behalf of client [StepbyWater](https://stepbywater.com/). This marks 13 Grand Stevie wins for LLYC in the past 11 years. - [UNICEF Thailand](https://www.unicef.org/thailand/), Bangkok’s Gold Stevie-winning nomination for Best Annual Report - Non-Profit Organizations, “A Tale Of Two Thailands - UNICEF Thailand Impact Report 2023” earns a Grand Stevie. This marks the second Grand Stevie win for UNICEF, with their Cambodian chapter having won in the 2022 IBAs, and the third Grand win for Thailand. ***Highest-rated New Product or Service Nomination of the Year ***With an average score of 9/10, [Azul](https://www.azul.com/), of Sunnyvale, California, USA, provider of “the Java platform for the modern cloud enterprise,” wins their first Grand Stevie Award for their nomination of Azul Platform Prime, Gold Stevie-winner for Best New Cloud Application or Service. *Maggie Miller, President of the Stevie Awards, remarked,* “*The six Grand Stevie Award winners exemplify the exceptional range and caliber of entries we received at the IBAs in 2024. Top organizations continue to adapt and thrive in a world of constant change, and our judges were truly impressed by the outstanding creativity, resourcefulness, and skill demonstrated by these winners in propelling their organizations forward over the past two years. We eagerly anticipate honoring these Grand Stevie Award recipients at the upcoming gala in Istanbul.*” The International Business Awards feature a wide variety of categories to recognize achievement in every facet of work life, including [management awards](http://stevieawards.com/iba/management-awards-categories), [new product awards](http://stevieawards.com/iba/new-product-awards-categories), [marketing awards](http://stevieawards.com/iba/marketing-awards-categories), [PR awards](http://stevieawards.com/iba/pr-awards-categories), [customer service awards](http://stevieawards.com/iba/customer-service-awards-categories), [website awards](http://stevieawards.com/iba/web-site-awards-categories), and more. Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award placements in the 2024 IBAs were determined by the average scores of more than [300 professionals worldwide](https://stevieawards.com/iba/2024-judging-committees) in the three-month judging process. Winners were selected from more than 3,600 nominations submitted by organizations in 62 nations and territories. The nomination process for the 2025 IBAs will open in February. For more information about The International Business Awards, including a complete list of all Stevie Award winners in the 2024 competition, visit [www.StevieAwards.com/IBA](http://www.stevieawards.com/IBA). Topics: [International business awards](https://blog.stevieawards.com/blog/topic/international-business-awards) ### Request an entry kit for one or more of the stevie awards programs [Remove my information](https://blog.stevieawards.com/blog/grand-stevie-winners-announced-in-21st-international-business-awards#) Entry kit will be sent to you by email. 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