Awards

The ECMOD Awards

Wednesday 14th April 2010
Lancaster London Hotel

The cream of the UK’s multi-channel retail sector has been commended at the prestigious ECMOD Awards for Outstanding Business Performance in 2009.

Eighteen companies were commended at a glittering ceremony at the Lancaster London Hotel. The awards were presented by Sky News anchor Dermot Murnaghan.

The popular event aims to recognise the hard work, flair and commitment of businesses in the catalogue and multi-channel sector.

Take a look at the AWARD WINNERS GALLERY HERE!

Winners in the business-to-consumer categories were:

* Best Rebranding/Creative Makeover: Cath Kidston

* Charity/Good Cause-Related: Sightsavers

* Children’s Market: Aspace

* Food and/or Drink: Personalised Presents Direct

* Gardening Products: Marshalls Garden Catalogues

* Giftwares and Gadgets: notonthehighstreet.com

* Health and Special Needs: Able2 Wear

* Homewares: House of Bath

* Men’s Apparel and Accessories: Peter Christian

* Most Effective Customer Engagement: Axminster Tool Centre

* Outstanding Customer Service: Axminster Tool Centre

* Outstanding Website Innovation and Performance: BrightMinds

* Women’s Apparel and Accessories: Nicola Jane

There were also a number of winners from the business-to-business sector:

* Educational, Training Materials, and Supplies: A to Z Supplies

* Industrial, Health, Safety, and Security: Stocksigns

* Medical, Dental, Laboratory, and Scientific: Williams Medical Supplies

* Niche Trade Supplies: Ironmongery Direct

* Outstanding Customer Service: Ironmongery Direct

* Outstanding Website Innovation and Performance: ARCO

* Warehouse, Materials Handling, and Packaging: Rapid Racking

The ECMOD Lifetime Achievement Award
During the event, a Lifetime Achievement Award was also presented to Johnnie Boden for his contribution to the catalogue and home shopping sector. This award has only been bestowed upon five previous winners in the history of the awards. Recipients of the title are Jim Martin of N Brown Group, the late Michelle Kershaw of Lakeland Limited, Sir David Jones of Next PLC, Tony Laithwaite of Direct Wines and Nigel Swabey of Scotts & Co.

About the ECMOD Awards

When the ECMOD Awards first launched in 1998 few envisaged how important they would become to businesses in the catalogue, home shopping and multi-channel sector, or to the forward thinking supplier organisations that endorse and support them.

How the ECMOD Awards are operated
The ECMOD Awards categories are designed to reflect multi-channel, catalogue producing and online retailing organisations serving business or consumer customers and are now based on merchandise categories. This enables, for example, a fashion business to compete against other fashion business entries; an industrial supplies business entry to compete with others in its product category, and so on. The entries take into account each business' complete calendar year of activity and achievement, 1st January - 31st December 2009.

Each year the ECMOD team recruits a panel of independent expert adjudicators who undertake the judging process. Selected Judges agree to treat all submitted entries in complete confidence and not to decline to judge any entries from companies with which they have an ongoing, impending or recent past relationship. ECMOD judges are drawn from the USA and the UK, and undertake the judging process remotely. Their results are filed in a score based format and fed into a master database which then computes the runners-up for each category.