The ECMOD Awards
for Business Excellence in 2009

Date: 14th April 2010
Venue: Royal Lancaster Hotel, London

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DOWNLOAD THE ENTRY FORM HERE: ECMOD Awards Entry Form (PDF, 917.6 kb)

About the Awards

...A uniquely prestigious & influential opportunity for communicating your brand...

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.

The ECMOD Awards Gala Dinner will take place on Wednesday 14th April 2010 at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, London.

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. Shortlisted Entrants are offered 2 FREE places for the Awards Gala Event.

The Categories are as follows:

NEW CATEGORIES:

• Best International Performance - One award for overall best
• Best Re-branding/Creative Makeover - One award for the overall best
• Most Effective Customer Engagement - One award for B2B & one award for B2C
• Outstanding Customer Service - One award for B2B & one award for B2C
• Outstanding Website Innovation & Performance - One award for B2B & one award for B2C

CONSUMER:

• Charity/Good Cause
• Children's Market
• Food and/or Drink
• Gardening Products
• Giftwares & Gadgets
• Health & Special Needs
• Homewares
• Men's Apparel & Accessories inc.Sportswear
• Women's Apparel & Accessories inc. Sportwear

BUSINESS TO BUSINESS:

• Catering, Hospitality, Facilities Management
• Educational, Training Materials & Supplies
• Industrial, Health, Safety, Security
• Medical, Dental, Laboratory, Scientific
• Niche Trade Supplies
• Office Equipment, Stationery & Supplies
• Premiums, Incentives & Personalised Products
• Warehouse, Materials Handling, Packaging

How It works:

• Choose the category(ies) that most closely reflect your product speciality and finest achievements. It may be a single category or it may be several.
• Prepare your entry based upon your output, developments and achievements from 1st January to 31st December 2009.
• Pull together supporting materials such as catalogue copies, promotion pieces, screen grabs, hard copies of email newsletters, customer testimonials, shots of your retail stores, press clippings and any other materials that you believe will allow our judiciary panel a full visual insight into your business - you will need 12 copies of each item.
• Prepare your Executive Summary - up to four A4 sides.
• Example Executive Summary (Microsoft Word Document, 30.5 kb)
• Prepare your 150 word precis of your milestones and major achievements during 2009 including what you felt were the most outstanding highlights and the most successful outcomes experienced.
• Write a covering letter that gives a flavour of your business, its USP and goals, tell our judges what winning an ECMOD Award would mean to your business.
• For FREE shipping of your entries call Citipost on 0208 301 8500 before 22nd February 2010, for collection by the 26th February. Quote Ref: ECMOD Awards 2010/Lee Barham.

CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES: 1st March 2010