International Awards Blog

16 May is the entry deadline for The Ninth Annual International Business Awards, the world's premier business awards competition.

If you haven't downloaded the 2012 entry kit, you can request your entry kit here and you will receive it right away.  

The International Business Awards recognize achievement in every facet of the workplace and all individuals and organizations worldwide -- public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small -- may submit nominations to the IBAs. Types of award categories include:

• Company/Organization Awards 
• Customer Service Awards
• Human Resources Awards
• Information Technology Awards 
• Management Awards
• Marketing Awards Categories
• New Product Awards
• Public Relations Awards
• Support Awards
• Web Site Awards, Smartphone and Tablet App, and other media awards

See the full list of international business award categories.

Entries submitted after 16 May, through the final entry deadline of 27 June, will be assessed a late fee in addition to any entry fee. Finalists will be announced in late July and 2012 honorees will be celebrated at the 9th annual awards banquet on Monday, 15 October in Seoul, South Korea.

Need help answering  your IBA submission questions?  Email us at help@stevieawards.com  or call us at + 1 703-547-8389 and we'll get back to you right away.

16 May is the entry deadline for The 2012 International Business Awards, the world's premier business awards competition.

All individuals and organizations worldwide – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small – may submit nominations to The International Business Awards. If you haven't already done so, you can request your entry kit here.

The IBAs recognize achievement in every facet of the workplace. Categories include:

• Management 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 Awards, Smartphone and Tablet App, and other media awards

Entries submitted after 16 May, through the final entry deadline of 27 June, will be assessed a late fee in addition to any entry fee. 2012 Finalists will be announced late July and 2012 IBA winners will be announced at the Seoul, South Korea awards ceremony on 15 October. Click here to see the complete IBA calendar.

Not sure which corporate awards categories are right for your organization? Email us at help@stevieawards.com  or call us at + 1 703-547-8389 and we'll help you choose the best ways to highlight your organization.

The Ninth Annual International Business Awards, the world's premier business awards competition, is now accepting entries. The entry deadline is 16 May; request your entry kit here.

All individuals and organizations worldwide -- public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small -- may submit nominations to the IBAs. The International Business Awards recognize achievement in every facet of the workplace. Stevie® Awards are conferred upon top-scoring nominations in each category, as chosen by an international judging panel of more than 150 business leaders.

Our business awards categories include:

• Company/Organization Awards
• Customer Service Awards
• Human Resources Awards
• Information Technology Awards
• Management Awards
• Marketing Awards Categories
• New Product Awards
• Public Relations Awards
• Support Awards
• Web Site Awards, Smartphone and Tablet App, and other media awards

See the full list of international business awards categories.

Nominations should cite achievements during our eligibility period: January 2011 through 27 June 2012, the last day that late entries will be accepted. There is no eligibility timeframe for web site entries - it does not matter when the web sites were first published.

The IBA deadline is 16 May and late entries will be accepted through the final entry deadline of 27 June with a $35.00 late fee. Finalists will be announced in late July. Entry details are available at www.stevieawards.com/iba.

2012 honorees will be celebrated at the 9th annual awards banquet on Monday, 15 October in Seoul, South Korea. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Stevie Awards movement, we will introduce Silver and Bronze Stevie Awards. This means that all honorees in the IBAs will now be Stevie Award winners (Note: Silver and Bronze Stevie Awards will replace Distinguished Honoree (honorable mention) medals). Read more about the new awards here.

To request an entry kit for The 2011 International Business Awards, visit www.stevieawards.com/iba.

Finance is the dominant industrial sector among the British Finalists in this year’s Stevie Awards for Women in Business, with four of the 10 UK nominees working in City-related businesses.

The major international award for business women, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business recognise excellence among women entrepreneurs, executives and women-led organisations. Notable Finalists this year include Marjorie Scardino, CEO of Pearson plc, owners of the UK’s leading financial newspaper, the Financial Times.  She is up against fellow UK CEO, Cynthia Carrol of Anglo-American and nine others for the title of Best Executive in EMEA.

Best Entrepreneur finalist, one of only three, is Katie Small, MD of financial services company, Mercury West Associates. Women in the City, founded by Gwen Rhys (pictured) is one of four finalists in the Women Supporting Women category. 

The other six of the 10 UK Women in Business finalists (in 9 categories) are TopLine (in two communications categories), Deborah Mitchell of Heaven, Rebecca Lane of Epitome Health & Beauty, Eve Morris of CoSkill, and Chris Holly of Chris Holly Consulting. The winners will be announced at a gala dinner in New York on November 11 - tickets are now on sale.

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We've just published a new video entitled How to Enter The 2011 International Business Awards.  Watch it here:

The video offers a comprehensive overview of the IBAs, including the 2011 schedule, the available categories, how to prepare and submit entries, and how the judging process works.

If you're not familiar with The International Business Awards, they are one of the four Stevie Awards competitions, and they honor achievements in the workplace at organizations worldwide.  They offer many categories for management awards, overall company awards, marketing awards, public relations awards, human resources awards, new product awards, website awards, video awards, live event awards, and more.

The early-bird entry deadline is April 12.  The final deadline is May 11, but late entries will be accepted through June 8 with payment of a nominal late fee.

Learn more and get your IBA entry kit at http://www.stevieawards.com/iba. 

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The Stevie Awards are pleased to welcome HMC Seswa as our new representative in South Africa.  The agency is one of South Africa’s most enduring public relations companies and has been in business for almost 30 years. The company focuses on a few key market sectors including business to business, technology, mining and engineering. They also are involved in several awards programs for their clients.

The agency will promote The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service to organizations in South Africa, and help local entrants to submit their entries.

The company is owned by Mazole Holdings, whose shareholders are Dan Moyane, a well known former broadcaster and businessman, and Johanna McDowell who is the Chief Executive of the company.  Mazole and HMC Seswa are committed to the growth of corporate business and small business in South Africa and to the recognition of business success, particularly among women. The team at HMC Seswa consists of seven professional public relations specialists as well as an advertising specialist.  The company is part of the Mazole Africa network which has a footprint throughout Africa where the company has active contacts and business interests.

Johanna McDowell said, "We are delighted to be part of the Stevie Awards family and we are looking forward to building the profile of the Stevie Awards brand in South Africa and maybe, in the not too distant future, into other countries in Africa."

Learn more about the agency at  www.hmcseswa.co.za

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The entry kit for The 2011 (8th annual) International Business Awards is now available. The IBAs are the world's premier business awards, honoring achievement in every facet of the workplace, including management awards, PR awards, IT awards, web awards, and more. All organizations worldwide are invited to participate.  Last year organizations in 28 nations won International Stevie Award trophies.

Get the entry kit.

Here are highlights of what's new and different for the 2011 IBAs.

Eligibility Timeframe
Eligibility now extends from 1 January 2010.  Nominations should cite achievements since that date.  Advertising, video, and other media issued since that date are eligible to be entered.  There is no eligibility timeframe for web site and blog entries, however - it doesn't matter when web sites and blogs were first published.

Entry Deadlines
- 12 April 2011: Early-bird deadline, offering discounted entry fees. This is the first year in which the IBAs have offered an early-bird deadline
- 11 May 2011: Final deadline
- 8 June 2011: Last day that late entries will be accepted (late fees charged in addition to any entry fees)

Entry Fees
For the fifth year in a row entry fees have not been raised. In fact, entry fees for several categories have been lowered, specifically the categories that welcome entries exclusively from non-profit and government organizations.

New Categories
- 33 new industry-specific Company of the Year categories
- 33 new industry-specific Executive of the Year categories
- 6 new region-specific Fastest-Growing Company of the Year categories
- Best New Product or Service - Health Products & Services
- Three new Web Site or Blog categories

• Best Mobile Site
• Best Facebook Fanpage or Group
• Best LinkedIn Group

Changed Categories
The categories that were formerly for Interactive Multimedia productions exclusively are now also open to Apps for smartphones and tablets.

Contact us if you have any questions about how to choose categories, prepare or submit entries to The 2011 International Business Awards.

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There are four Stevie Awards competitions:

• The International Business Awards, which are going into their 8th year.  This competition is open to all organizations worldwide, and opens again for entries in January.
• The Stevie Awards for Women in Business, which will are also open to all organization worldwide and will open its 8th annual competition in May 2011.
• The Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service, which is currently accepting entries from around the world for its 5th annual competition.
• The American Business Awards, which are open to all organizations in the U.S.A.

Our most successful representatives are independent public relations practitioners with extensive contacts and strong ties to their national public relations, advertising, and corporate communications communities, but that profile is not a hard and fast requirement of our representatives.  A decent command of the English language is a requirement, however, as are the following

• Facility with online marketing tools including email, social media, and web marketing
• The willingness to be compensated on a commission basis for entry fees and sponsorship fees received from your nation(s)

The list of current representatives is online, on the International Business Awards web site. If a nation is not listed on this page, we are looking for local representation there and we invite your expression of interest. Write to us here.