Revealed: Winners in 16th annual Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service

KUALA LUMPUR, March 2 -- Winners in the 16th annual Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service, recognised as the world's top customer service awards and sales awards, have been announced.

According to a statement, Stevie Award winners will be celebrated during a virtual awards ceremony on May 11.

More than 2,300 nominations from organisations in 51 nations were considered in this year’s competition. Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie Award winners were determined by the average scores of more than 150 professionals on eight specialised judging committees.

IBM of Armonk, NY USA and DP DHL, worldwide both won 11 Gold Stevie Awards, the most of any organisation in the competition.

Other Stevie winners with three or more Golds include Sales Partnerships, Inc., Broomfield, CO USA (eight), ValueSelling Associates, Carlsbad, CA USA (six), HP, Inc. Boise, ID USA (four), The Biz Dojo Inc, Calgary, Canada (four), and, UPMC Health Plan, Pittsburgh, PA USA (four).

Winners of two Gold Stevie Awards include Contact Lens King Inc., Champlain, NY USA; Datasite, Minneapolis, MN USA; Dubai Municipality, Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Empolis Group, Kaiserslautern, Germany; Future Generali India Insurance Company Ltd., Mumbai, India; and, Michael Kors, New York, NY USA.

Other organisations winning a combination of four or more Gold, Silver, or Bronze Stevie Awards include Abrigo, Austin, TX USA; Arise Virtual Solutions, Miramar, FL USA; Blackhawk Network, Pleasanton CA USA; CarrefourSA, Istanbul, Turkey; and, Clubspeed, Irvine, CA USA.

The 10 most-honoured organisations in the competition will receive Grand Stevie Award trophies. Those winners will be announced the week of March 14.

Through April 1, the public may vote for their favourite providers of customer service in the People’s Choice Stevie® Awards for Favorite Customer Service, an annual feature of the awards.

Voting is open at http://peopleschoice.stevieawards.com. Winners of the People’s Choice Stevie Awards in multiple industries will be announced the week of April 4.

The complete list of Stevie Winners by category is available at http://www.StevieAwards.com/Sales.

More details at www.StevieAwards.com.

-- BERNAMA