PC Retail

The Finalists

After weeks of anticipation and hundreds of lobbying emails and calls, the Finalists of the PC Retail Awards '09 have been announced – and this year's event will see an even more diverse range of companies battling it out for glory.

See below for the full list of categories and finalists, or click here to view our special PC Retail Awards '09 Finalists Supplement.

Taking place at the Royal Garden Hotel in London on Thursday March 19th, the PC Retail Awards '09 will once again celebrate all those in the computing and IT channel.

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THE AWARDS CATEGORIES AND FINALISTS IN FULL:

FRONTLINE
The Fronline Awards will recognise excellence in customer-facing organisations, be they on the High Street, the internet or dealing with businesses. The winners of these awards will be those organisations that have best represented the UK technology industry to the outside world. The category finalists are:

High Street Independent
Novatech Computer Store
Utopia Computers
YoYoTech
121 Computer Services
Shasonic

High Street Multiple
Argos
Comet
John Lewis
PC World
Tesco

Online Retailer
QVCUK.com
Novatech
Amazon
Play.com
Overclockers.co.uk

Value Added Reseller
Bear IT
Softcat
Form IT
Stone Computers
Keen Computers

Best Technical Support
Positive Computing
Bear IT
YoYoTech
GeeksOnWheels
Forum Computers

DISTRIBUTION
The distribution awards are designed to acknowledge the hard work put in by the unsung heroes of the channel. The sales and marketing teams at distributors are a vital link between vendors and retailers. The category finalists are:

Sales Team: Home
Interactive Ideas
VIP
CCI
Centerprise
Gem

Sales Team: Business
Entatech
VIP
Realtime
Ingram Micro
C2000

Sales Innovation
TotalPDA
Entatech
Interactive Ideas
Gem
M2M

Marketing & PR Team
VIP
Interactive Ideas
Ingram Micro
Gem Creative
Midwich

Specialist Distributor
TotalPDA
Midwich
Meroncourt
Widget
Target

VENDORS
The PC Retail Awards will once again concentrate on the sales and marketing teams, as they are the ‘face’ of those vendors in the channel. The category finalists are:

Sales Team: Home
Hannspree
Sapphire
BullGuard
AVG
Acer

Sales Team: Business
Acer
Lenovo
HP
Canon
Mitsubishi

Marketing & PR Team: Home
Symantec
Kapersky Lab
TomTom
Intel
Nvidia

Marketing & PR Team: Business
Cooler Master
Acer
Dell
AMD
Microsoft

Specialist Vendor
Billion
Medea
Antec
Kingston
Big Red

Grand Prix: The Grand Prix and Industry Achievement Awards will be unveiled on the night.

Industry Achievement: Awarded to the individual deemed to have made a contribution to the channel above and beyond the call of duty.

LOBBYING
A panel of judges from across the industry will now vote on the ultimate winners.