Everything Channel Honors Award-Winning Leaders at RetailVision Fall, Highlighting the Strength of the Technology Retail ChannelEvent Included 'Fresh,' a Launch Platform for New Consumer TechnologiesPRNewswire Everything Channel, the leader in accelerating technology sales channels worldwide, today announced the RetailVision and Industry Award series winners from RetailVision Fall. The event, which took place in San Diego, has been the recognized leader in bringing together established and emerging vendors with top retailers for nearly 20 years. "The retail channel is the pulse of the North American marketplace," said Nancy Hammervik, Vice President, Everything Channel Events. "RetailVision has been the leading event for retailers and vendors in the consumer market and the success of this event demonstrates its importance in the marketplace." As part of Everything Channel's mission to help grow and enrich technology reseller Channels worldwide, RetailVision Fall brought together retailers, suppliers, and other retail professionals and vendors in a setting that provided one-on-one meetings, private boardroom appointments, vendors showcases, industry insight sessions and a series of business networking events. In addition, RetailVision in conjunction with The Sightline Group presented "Fresh", a platform for new technologies trying to reach the consumer market and a trigger point for successful product launches. Seven emerging vendors demonstrated key features in a lively multimedia production. For additional information on these companies, go to: http://www.crn.com/retail/210201061?queryText=fresh Best of RetailVision Awards More than 180 retail executives attending the event voted for the Best of RetailVision Awards, representing 100 retail chains in the United States, Canada and Latin America that buy over $60 billion worth of products each year. After two days of boardroom presentations and one-on-one meetings, the retailers vote on the products and services presented at the show. The Best of RetailVision Awards are a proven springboard to increased brand awareness and product credibility in the consumer channel. The winners include: -- Best Product: Hardware - Vuzix
-- Best Product: Peripheral - The Neat Company
-- Best Product: Accessory - IOGEAR
-- Best Product: Digital Home - Sling Media
-- Best Merchandising - CPG/Woot!
-- Best Retail Strategy - CPG/Woot!
-- Best Presentation - CPG/Woot!
-- Best New Technology - KOTRA
-- Best Vendor - IOGEAR
-- Best Service Provider - AppArt
-- Best FRESH Vendor - DM Technology
-- Best Latin American Retail Strategy - Western Digital
-- Best Latin American Vendor - Western Digital
RetailVision Star Club Awards
The RetailVision Star Club Awards honor retailers for their long-standing support of ten or more RetailVision events and their dedication to the event. The RetailVision Star Club awards were presented to:
-- Michael Carioti, Provantage
-- Jamie Hough, Nebraska Furniture Mart
-- Matt Martin, PC Connection
Retail Fast Growth Award Winners
The Fast Growth retailers showcase the industry's fastest growing retailers. Fast Growth winners were selected on total percentage revenue increases between 2005 and 2007, which were verified by editorial staff. Winners include: -- Newegg.com
-- DataVision
-- PC Universe
-- Provantage
-- Ritz Interactive
Retailer and Retail Executive of the Year Award
Retailer of the Year award honors the stand-out Retailer/E-tailer chosen for the strength of its business strategy, demonstrable innovation, major accomplishments, customer and partner satisfaction, and visibility in the industry. The Retailer of the Year Award winner is:
-- Micro Center
The Retail Executive of the Year award winner is:
-- Kevin Jones, Micro Center's Vice President of Merchandising
Retail Vendor and Vendor Executive of the Year Award
The vendor of the year award honors the standout technology vendor that demonstrates a strategic retail strategy, brings innovative product to market through retailers, achieves customer and product satisfaction, and has high visibility within the retailer industry. The Retail Vendor of the Year award winner is:
-- Nokia
The Retail Vendor Executive of the Year winner is:
-- Robert Pignataro, Nokia's multimedia Sales Director for North America
Everything Channel's Test Center Best in Show Awards
Everything Channel's Test Center presented live demos to showcase hot, new products. Winners were chosen based on the product demo at RetailVision Fall. The Everything Channel Test Center Best in Show Award winners are: -- Gold - icon/Motion Systems -- Silver- Vuzix -- Bronze - Battery-Biz "Retail is a significant and important Channel for technology vendors, and we salute our 2008 Retail Fast Growth Retailer award winners, as well as our Retailer of the Year and Vendor of the Year. This group clearly demonstrates the power of the Retail Channel, and the strength of the technology market as a whole," said Robert C. DeMarzo, Senior Vice President and Editorial Director, Everything Channel Editorial. For more information on Everything Channel's RetailVision visit: www.retailvision.com. Everything Channel (www.everythingchannel.com, www.channelweb.com) Everything Channel is the one-stop-shop for accessing, enabling and accelerating technology sales channels. From branding and recruiting to marketing and sales, Everything Channel offers technology marketers the unmatched breadth and depth of global brands and market intelligence combined with an unparallel audience loyalty and credibility serving all technology sales channels. Through innovative sales and marketing solutions, Everything Channel arms the sellers of technology with the resources they need to achieve measurable and significant results. About United Business Media Limited United Business Media Limited is a leading global business media company. We inform markets and bring the world's buyers and sellers together at events, online, in print, and with the information they need to do business successfully. We focus on serving professional commercial communities, from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewellery traders, from farmers to pharmacists around the world. Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organised into specialist teams that serve these communities, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently. For more information, go to www.unitedbusinessmedia.com. First Call Analyst: SOURCE: Everything Channel CONTACT: Kate Spellman of Everything Channel, +1-516-562-7383, Web site: http://www.everythingchannel.com/ |