--- title: Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service Announce Finalists in 10th Annual Competition description: The 2016 Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service Finalists have been announced. Over 2,100 nominations were submitted this year in the sales awards, customer service awards, contact center awards, and business development awards categories. image: https://blog.stevieawards.com/hubfs/Deutsche-Post-DHL.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 # Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service Announce Finalists in 10th Annual Competition Posted by [Maggie Gallagher](https://blog.stevieawards.com/blog/author/maggie-gallagher) on Thu, Jan 21, 2016 @ 11:00 AM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) **Finalists in the 10th Annual [Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service](http://www.stevieawards.com/sales), an international competition recognizing excellence in disciplines that are crucial to business success, were announced today.  **   **![Deutsche-Post-DHL.jpg](https://blog.stevieawards.com/hubfs/Deutsche-Post-DHL.jpg "Deutsche-Post-DHL.jpg")**A diverse group of organizations and individuals around the world are among those recognized in the customer service awards, contact center awards, business development awards, and sales awards categories. Organizations with five or more Finalist nominations include Carbonite, Inc., Cisco Systems, Delta Air Lines, DHL Express, Digital Risk, eMoney Advisor, LLC, GuideWell Connect, HomeServe USA, Human Resources Development Fund, iHeartMedia, Inc., John Hancock Financial Services, Lennox Industries, Inc., LiveWatch Security LLC, Marriott Vacations Worldwide, MTM Inc., Nuance Communications, Odeabank, Revana, Sales Partnerships, Inc., SoftPro, SurePayroll, Inc., Turkiye Is Bankasi A.S., Visualize, VIZIO, Inc., Wells Fargo, WePay Inc., and Wyndham Vacation Ownership. For a full list of Finalists by category, visit [www.StevieAwards.com/Sales](http://www.StevieAwards.com/Sales). **Gold, Silver and Bronze Stevie Award winners will be announced during a gala banquet on Friday, March 4 at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. [Tickets are now on sale](http://www.stevieawards.com/pubs/sales/tickets/404_2062_13373.cfm).** The awards are presented by the Stevie Awards, which organizes several of the world’s leading business awards shows including the prestigious [International Business Awards](http://www.stevieawards.com/iba) and [American Business Awards](http://www.StevieAwards.com/ABA). More than 2,100 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were evaluated in this year’s competition, an increase of 11% over 2015. Finalists were determined by the average scores of 115 professionals worldwide, acting as preliminary judges. Entries were considered in 59 categories for customer service and contact center achievements, including Contact Center of the Year, Award for Innovation in Customer Service, and Consulting Practice of the Year; more than 50 categories for sales and business development achievements, ranging from Senior Sales Executive of the Year to Business Development Achievement of the Year; and categories to recognize new products and services and solution providers. More than 60 members of seven specialized judging committees will determine the Gold, Silver and Bronze Stevie Award placements from among the Finalists during final judging, to begin January 25. Beginning today through February 12, the general public may vote for their favorite providers of customer service in the People’s Choice Stevie® Awards for Favorite Customer Service. Voting is open at [http://peopleschoice.stevieawards.com](http://peopleschoice.stevieawards.com). Winners of the People’s Choice Stevie Awards in multiple industries will be determined in mid-February and honored at the awards gala in Las Vegas on March 4. 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