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Global Excellence Awards

The Global Excellence Awards 2026 shines a spotlight on the innovation, leadership, and achievements of businesses across the corporate spectrum – from ambitious startups and visionary entrepreneurs to established corporations and industry-leading service providers.

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About The Award

Celebrating global leaders driving excellence and innovation.

Acquisition International is excited to announce the return of the Global Excellence Awards! For almost a decade, we have been committed to recognising the organisations and professionals setting new standards of excellence across industries worldwide.

This year, the Global Excellence Awards 2026 will shine a spotlight on the innovation, leadership, and achievements of businesses across the corporate spectrum – from ambitious startups and visionary entrepreneurs to established corporations and industry-leading service providers.

Think your organisation deserves global recognition? Register Your Interest today.

Why Take Part?

🏆 Authority – Be named among global business leaders by Acquisition International

📈 Growth – Harness your award to attract new clients and partners

🏅 Proof – Third-party validation for your product, service, or team

🌍 Reach – Boost exposure to a global network of peers and decision-makers

🧰 Ready-to-Use Assets – Gain access to a complimentary marketing toolkit

Who Can Enter?

The awards recognise outstanding achievements across all sectors, business disciplines, and regions. We welcome entries from organisations of all sizes and types – whether you’re a startup, a family business, or a multinational enterprise.

What We Recognise

💡 Innovation & Creativity - Developing groundbreaking products, services, or processes.

📊 Business Growth & Success - Achieving measurable growth, market expansion, or record-breaking performance.

💼 Leadership & Strategy - Demonstrating visionary leadership or exceptional management practices.

🤝 Client & Customer Excellence - Delivering outstanding service that drives loyalty and satisfaction.

Made an impact in any of these areas? Register Your Interest now. Don’t see your achievement listed? Choose ‘Other’ on the form and we’ll review it against our criteria.

How It Works

The Global Excellence Awards 2026 are judged through Acquisition International’s independent, merit-based process, ensuring every award is earned through genuine achievement. The awards are not pay-to-play, and commercial packages never influence results – guaranteeing fair and impartial outcomes for all nominees.

  1. Acknowledgement – Be recognised organically through our internal search process or complete the short form to tell us about your organisation to get on our radar.
  2. Internal Review – Internal evaluation of each nomination, with assessment against set criteria including (but not limited to) company innovation, industry impact, client satisfaction, and social responsibility.
  3. Results – Winners are contacted by brand coordinator Jo Holloway and guided through the next steps.
  4. Promotion – All winners receive a complimentary marketing toolkit and online directory listing, with optional upgrade opportunities for enhanced exposure.

See how previous winners made the most of their recognition in our Hall of Fame.

Ready to Showcase Your Success?

If your organisation is inspiring change, driving innovation, and achieving exceptional results worldwide, the Global Excellence Awards 2026 invites you to take part today!

Ready to share your success story? Register Your Interest or contact campaign coordinator Jo Holloway to put your achievements forward for recognition.

Admission into this campaign is solely at the discretion of our team, if you think you have what it takes, please email the coordinator and we'll review your request.

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In today's multi-channel world of precise online engagement, being able to target and engage your ideal demographic is very powerful. Acquisition International can help you to successfully connect with our readers and web visitors through our selection of products and services which you can view in our brochure.

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Our Approach

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The Acquisition International team work assiduously to distinguish the most relevant and eligible professionals for inclusion in the awards. We keep well-informed of industry trends by subscribing to and examining prominent and trusted corporate news sources, M&A activity, funding, and investment rounds, B2B events, and significant people moves. We conduct full and thorough investigations to formalise our nominees and pass them over to the next stage, Research.
Our in-house research team assesses each nominee independently. We investigate each candidate against a range of sources, largely available within the public domain. This includes news articles, journals, corporate websites, members associations, professional directories, press releases and other published work.

The criteria include education, experience, third-party corporate recognition, physical and digital presence, client testimonials, investor reviews, products and services and corporate progression.

Once our recipients are agreed, our Brand Coordinator contacts them each individually to discuss their insertion and next steps.
The recipients of our AI Global Excellence Awards are personally notified about their achievement before we, the publisher makes any public announcement. This time is essential to allow for wider corporate communications and the coordination of marketing strategies.

We ask the winners to “accept” the award privately before anything is published and depending on the level of coverage they agree, this will be formalised via our monthly digital magazine, the annual winners supplement, or the A-Z directory.
There are no compulsory costs associated with accepting the award; our winners are invited to feature in our A-Z directory on an entirely complimentary basis.

We encourage our winners to spread the good news across their own website and social media channels to capitalise on the success. Afterall, what’s the point of winning an award if you don’t tell anyone!

We do also offer several paid for options, these are for winners who seek to maximise the potential of the award via supplementary coverage. These packages offer varying levels of exposure across our platform and include skilfully produced promotional resources designed to increase the coverage.

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Frequently Asked Questions
Who nominated me?
The AI Global Excellence Awards are managed solely in house. This means that all nominations stem from decisions made within the organisation. For specific detail on any case, please email the Brand Coordinator who sent the notification.
Why was I selected?
We use a selection of trusted sources to guide our selection process, usually including trade news sources and publications, corporate finance news, funding/investment rounds, B2B events, members associations, professional directories, and press releases.
Who makes the decision?
As with the selection process, all decisions regarding winners are also determined in house. This allows us to maintain high and consistent standards when evaluating candidate against our criteria.

We believe this method is the most efficient in determining which companies and individuals are the most deserving of inclusion in the programme and has brought us much success and praise throughout its use.
Is there a winner’s ceremony/award dinner?
We have always favoured a digital approach to our celebrations as that is where we think our winners can gain the maximum benefit from their success. It is not only a logistical challenge to coordinate our winners for one evening of celebration but it also places unnecessary cost burdens on them. We focus on cost-effective methods of promotion across our international platform and believe that the optional costs associated with an award are better placed in a year’s worth of online marketing compared to one ceremonial evening.
Are there any costs involved?
There are no compulsory costs involved. We do however offer a range of paid for packages, which can support promotional activity around the award for winners who see value in it. These are entirely optional.

We are proud to offer a free of charge listing in the annual winner’s directory. Our policy will always ensure that irrespective of budget, our winners should be able to garner the full value of the award and our seal of approval.

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Winners Hall Of Fame

Welcome to our Winners Hall of Fame, a special space dedicated to honouring and showcasing the individuals, teams, and organisations that have achieved unparalleled success in the corporate world.


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