Introducing the AI Global Excellence Awards
Launched in 2018, the AI Global Excellence Awards provide us at Acquisition International Magazine with an opportunity to celebrate and draw attention to innovative companies, teams and individuals who are driving change, surpassing expectation, and excelling across the vast corporate landscape.
Dedicated to delivering vital updates and keeping our corporate readers informed to remain ahead of the curve, the AI Global Excellence Awards present the most prominent leaders and organisations from a diverse range of industries. Our job is to magnify the people, products and services that can fundamentally change things for the better.
Recipients are selected through a merit-based system, via research carried out by our own impartial team rather than external nominations. Our criteria require that there is evidence of significant achievement and a clear commitment to innovation in a given field, for a company to pass the shortlisting stage and go on to be recognised and publicised to our readership.
There are no preconditions when it comes to an organisation’s turnover, number of employees, year of establishment, or location. It is more important for us to identify recipients based on merit, innovation, and excellence. We select the nominees, asses them against our criteria and make the judgement on whether they meet the standards required to pass to the next stage.
Those that succeed will be presented with a range of options, which are explicitly designed to promote the awardee. We excel at online marketing and can really help to create some positive exposure around our winners.
Our marketing packages have been skilfully designed to boost the coverage and promotion of the news. The main vehicle for announcing the news is by featuring our winners within an edition of our monthly digital magazine, this platform offers essential publicity and is a reliable source and location for you to link to when you’re sharing the information within your own network.
We also recommend entries in our A-Z directory and inclusion in our annual winner’s supplement, again both excellent tools for linking and sharing.
We take pride in our policy that irrespective of budget, the AI Global Excellence Awards provide our winners with a rare chance to promote their businesses across our network and theirs, we can help to increase the size of their digital footprint and to stand out in a competitive arena.
Please feel free to direct further questions to the Brand Coordinator.
Jo joined the AI Global Media team in 2016 and has since been involved in numerous projects for AI Global Media Ltd. She is both creative and dedicated in her role as account executive. Jo works hard to ensure a great customer journey for her clients and is passionate about delivering maximum value for each recipient.
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.
"As a freelance business adviser, it was a fantastic feeling just to be noticed amongst all the other larger consulting firms in the UK.
I’ve used the award in a number of ways already: to assure clients that they are, and are continuing to, work with recognised excellence; and to assure my parents that their son didn’t turn out all that badly after all!
"This recognition has also meant that my credibility when submitting evidences and ideas to inform future government policy and wider business support practices is enhanced. It’s offered me a great excuse to rekindle relationships with lapsed colleagues and network contacts who reached out to congratulate me on this achievement."
Adrian Ashton – www.adrianashton.co.uk
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