CRN Sales and Marketing Awards shortlist revealed

The competition for the 2019 Sales & Marketing Awards (SMAs) has been fierce, so those that have made the shortlist should be very proud of their achievement. 

Entry standards have definitely been raised this year, and the judges have had to be stricter than ever on wordcount and rewarding those that really followed the criteria and told their story in a personal and informative way. 

The shortlist will now go through to the second round of judges where the winners will be decided. Their job is going to be even harder as it really is that close. 

See below for the full shortlist and congratulations to all those that have made it this year.  

Reseller Categories

Best company to work for (sub £50m)

• Fitzrovia IT
• Ideal
• Pure technologies
• Air IT
• Atlas Cloud
• Risual Ltd
• Cisilion

Best Marketing Campaign

• SWcomms - Health Campaign
• Mobliciti   - Enterprise Mobility and Cloud conference
• EACS - Optimise IT
• Academia - Surface Go campaign
• Softcat - Explain IT
• Probrand - A new way to buy IT
• Cisilion - Network Refresh campaign
• SCC - Workplace Productivity and Journey to the Modern Desktop

Best Sales Team

• Trustmarque Solutions ltd
• Mobliciti
• Risual Ltd

Best Graduate/Apprentice Scheme

• Swcomms
• Fitzrovia IT
• IPNetix Ltd 
• Circle IT
• Softcat
• PCM Technology Solutions UK Ltd

Best New Business Win

• MTI
• Fizrovia IT
• SysGroup
• Noveau Solutions Ltd

Vendor Categories

Technology Innovation Award

• TP-Link UK - Deco range
• Rubrik - Radar
• HP Inc - Device-as-a-Service
• Continuum - Fortify for Protection
• Agilitas IT Solutions - Inventory-as-a-Service

Best Marketing Campaign

• Trend Micro - Go Big in Japan
• Netwrix - Best Practices in Securing Enterprise File Storage
• Harmony PSA - Enabling Growth Campaign
• Unify - WorkUtopia
• Fujitsu - Pilot campaign
• PFU (EMEA) - 10 Million Campaign
• BullGuard - Flying High in Dubai
• HPE - Intelligent Storage

Best Partner Programme

• UKFast
• SYNAXON UK
• PFU EMEA Ltd
• HP Inc
• BullGuard
• Malwarebytes

Best partner event

• ESET UK Partner Conference
• HP Partner First Roadshow
• Barracuda Networks - Discover 2018
• Microsoft Partner Executive Summit
• SYNAXON UK Member Conference
• NetApp Partner Executive Forum 2018

Best Graduate/Apprentice Scheme

• Microsoft Apprenticeship Programme
• Mason Frank Tech Academy - Salesforce Recruitment Scheme
• HP Internship and Placement Programme UK&I
• Agilitas IT Solutions Apprenticeship Scheme

Best company to work for

• Virtual1
• Dropbox
• Datto Inc
• ESET UK
• Red Hat

General Category

Best channel marketing/PR agency

• ResourceIT Consulting Ltd
• Junction Marketing Agency
• Bite IT marketing
• Ice and a Slice
• Asgard Marketing
• Purechannels
• Kingpin Communications
• Pursuit Marketing

Distributor Category

Best Marketing Campaign

• Sigma Software Distribution - Attack of the Vulnerabilities
• Midwich - Midwich TV
• Ingram Micro Horizon - Delivering HPE Solutions for Digital Transformation
• CMS Distribution - See Commvault from a new Perspective
• Exertis - Plug in to Exertis
• Westcon UK - Inside Agent lead generation Campaign

Best Sales and Marketing Support Team

• Tech Data
• intY
• Westcoast Cloud
• Exclusive Networks
• Comstor Engage
• Ingram Micro Marketing Team

Best company to work for

• Westcoast
• Exertis
• Tech Data
• Purdicom
• Exclusive Networks

Best Graduate/Apprentice scheme

• Tech Data
• Exertis
• Westcon-Comstor

source channelweb​