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Internet Business Awards Winners 2011

 National Winner, Scotland: Business Stream

National Winner, England: Rated People

Business services (including company formation and secretarial services)
Winner: TheCityUK (entered by Positive Digital)
TheCityUK website is truly innovative in design and structure – in the systems used, integration with other communication channels and the backend CRM system - and exceptional in the user experience offering a personalized site with layers of prioritised, personalized and restricted information. Results have been outstanding, exceeding target by 200% in just 6 months from relaunch.

Energy and utilities
Winner: Business Stream (entered by Whitespace)
Business Stream is the leading provider of water to businesses in Scotland, in the world’s first competitive retail non-domestic water market. Business Stream needed its website to support a stronger commercial position. The main focus of the site transformation was to increase quality of customer service to assist retention and acquisition, as well as reducing the cost to serve. Whitespace embarked on a complete rethink of the Business Stream website to ensure that ambitious new targets were met. The results speak for themselves with increased business customers finding the website engaging, useful and effective.

Internet & IT products and services
Winner: Citicus
Citicus MoCA is a new, risk management application that runs on an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. Developed by Citicus, this ground-breaking ‘app’, offered for free, provides an effective way for decision-makers to identify the business impact of their organisation's assets and processes being disrupted. This is a key step in managing business risk. Citicus MoCA is very easy to use and enables a wider range of stakeholders to discover, assess and highlight the relative importance of their information resources, suppliers, products, sites and any other types of asset or process they depend on.

Management services (HR, etc)
There are two very different winners in the Management Services category.

Winner: Accenture
In January 2011, Accenture completed a two-year effort to make their website more engaging and user-friendly to visitors. The overall objective was to increase the visibility and exposure of Accenture insights, services and client successes by providing greater access to this content. This has been achieved in spades with massive increases in visitors and page views, engagement, video viewings and a dramatic decrease in bounce.

Winner: Turbine (entered by Articulate Marketing)
Turbine is an online service that lets companies do routine paperwork online. For example, managers and staff can take care of holiday requests, sick notes, employee record keeping, expense claims, purchase requests and more. The system wraps up clever workflows, reporting and approval systems in an easy to use web-based front end that anyone can use. Ultimately, Turbine wants to save millions of people millions of hours by eliminating orstreamlining routine paperwork and freeing up time for more productive, fulfilling activity.

Print and publishing
Winner: Minuteman Press Bristol
The website is structured to be easily navigable with a flat hierarchy, never moving more than two clicks down into the website and always with the main navigation bar readily accessible. Unusually, the website combines graphic design and print and is designed to be a friendly knowledge hub adding real value whilst maintaining a sales focus. Most graphic design websites are technically innovative and visually stunning: most print websites are the absolute opposite. Minuteman has succeeded in addressing both markets with an original and interesting approach.

Promotion, direct marketing and data
Winner: Kiddicare Ad Planner by HookLogic
E-commerce media creates opportunities for brands and shoppers to connect in and around the e-commerce environment. Kiddicare partnered with HookLogic, a leading provider of e-commerce media services and solutions, to offer premium placements to their suppliers, creating new opportunities to enhance recognition among targeted shopper segments.

Property (services, management & construction)
Winner: RatedPeople.com
RatedPeople.com is already the UK’s leading trade “match-making” service. Every day it publishes work worth over £2million to its 25,000 trade members, equivalent to £1billion worth of home improvement projects per annum.

Telecommunications (including mobile)
Winner: Phone Support
Phone Support Worldwide provides a telephone service to help companies maintain a prominent professional image no matter what their size or budget. The company’s aim is to help small to large sized businesses reduce operational costs over time thus increasing overall revenue by using Phone Support Packages.

Wholesalers and distributors
Winner: RS Components
While still recovering from the bruises of the worldwide recession, RS Components stuck out its neck and developed a completely new business model centred on a redesigned presence online. 
This was no small cosmetic change: it was a wholesale change programme that delivered a customer-focused website. It not only exceeded stakeholder expectations but also radically changed the organisation’s blueprint, with over 50% of the company’s business now transacted online.

Internet Business Awards Winners 2010

Volcanoes, earthquakes, flu epidemics, economic downturn, severe illness and a website down with catastrophic problems at the time of judging made for an exciting, depressing, exhilarating, disheartening, yet ultimately triumphant inaugural year for the UK’s Internet Business Awards.

Determination won through and the organisers are delighted to finally announce the very select group of winners of the first ever Internet Business Awards. In category order the winners are:

Advertising & Marketing Services

Winner: Red Advertising (www.redadvertising.co.uk)

Red Advertising receives an award for a truly innovative approach to online advertising in the recruitment market, creating “a game-changing” platform solution, developing their own filter and keyword technologies and “delivering transparent, measurable and targeted results”. In the judges’ view Red Advertising accomplished their objectives, and then some, providing clients with solutions that work, whether they are other job boards, recruiters, direct employers or advertising agencies.

Environmental Products & Consultancy

Winner: Futurenergy (www.futurenergy.co.uk)

Futurenergy wins for their highly informative website. While you can’t actually buy one of their 1KW or 10KW Warwickshire-designed and manufactured wind turbines on their website, you can book yourself onto an Installers’ Course, or request a quotation or a site survey, or you can read up on some outstanding case studies. A UK success story in every sense, Futurenergy is a deserving winner and, what’s more, a winner deserving the support of UK and overseas companies in need of local power generation. They’re easy to reach through their winning website.

Fleet Operations & Services and Transport & Logistics

Winner of both categories: ANYVAN (www.anyvan.com)

ANYVAN is a company dedicated to reducing CO₂ emissions by matching customers needing deliveries made with transport providers running empty or part-full vehicles. Customers list their products on the ANYVAN website and transport providers bid for the deliveries of those products. Each completed job saves a measurable amount of CO₂ . The judges viewed this as a forward-thinking, unique, web-based project, which brought benefits to customers and transport operators alike. They voted ANYVAN as the clear winner in both the Fleet Operations and Transport & Logistics categories

Mobile Telecommunications

Winner: Txtlocal (www.txtlocal.co.uk)

The judges decided to separate mobile telecoms from landline and broadband services, as the sector is burgeoning. The beneficiary of this decision is Txtlocal, the Chester-based, mobile marketing services company. Their big, bold website gives business customers instant access to Txtlocal’s full range of services, all supported by pithy bullet points and phrases. Unlike its competitors, Txtlocal can enable any size of business to use B2B text message marketing, quickly, easily and at low cost.

Recruitment & Staffing

Winner: JobMate Technology (www.jobmate.co.uk) from Red Advertising

The JobMate Technology website demonstrates and allows free trial of one of Red Advertising’s unique products. The same technology offered by Red Advertising’s competitors is “considered to be cost prohibitive". The JobMate solution, on the other hand, is cutting edge, up-to-date in terms of social media and with a strong focus on recruiters’ needs, backed by market-leading service, and at a very affordable price. Generating a sales increase of over 600%, the judges viewed the JobMate project as “outstanding” and “hope that the Internet Business Award will crown their growing trophy shelf.”

Telecommunications (excluding Mobile)

Winner: Broadbandchoices (www.broadbandchoices.co.uk) a division of Consumerchoices Ltd

The Broadbandchoices.co.uk website has a B2B section, offering the UK’s first up to date price comparisons on broadband services for businesses. As with most of the winners of the Internet Business Awards, Broadbandchoices reports a dramatic upsurge in business activity via the site, with a 71% uplift in visitors, and increases of over 200% in revenues and gross profits. By extending their consumer offering to businesses, Broadbandchoices win a well-earned inaugural Internet Business Award.