The Stevie® Awards

🏆 Winner Spotlight: Denu Stevie-winner Denu is an Australia-based producer of sensory wellness products designed for hospitality, retail, and cultural venues. Founded by Sarah Fisher, the company creates natural hand, hair, and room products using locally sourced ingredients, solar-powered manufacturing, and recyclable packaging. Through bespoke co-branded collaborations, Denu partners with iconic venues including the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Arts Centre Melbourne, and leading restaurants to transform everyday amenities into tailored brand experiences. The company has expanded its reach significantly, growing its customer base by 40% and delivering tens of thousands of guest interactions through custom-designed products. 🏆 Denu earned a Gold Stevie® Award for Company of the Year in Small Hospitality & Leisure, and Bronze Stevie Awards for Company of the Year in Consumer Products – Small Durables, and Company of the Year in Retail – Small in The International Business Awards®. Submit nominations in the 2026 program 👉 https://bit.ly/4djbHO5 #StevieAwardWinner #BusinessAwards #StevieAwards #IndustryAwards

🛍️ If your organization is redefining retail through tech, consider submitting a nomination in one of the brand-new Retail & E-Commerce Technology categories in the 2026 Stevie® Awards for Technology Excellence. 🏆 From omnichannel retail platforms and AI-powered personalization to logistics optimization, marketplace automation, and next-gen customer experiences, these new categories celebrate innovators shaping the future of commerce. Categories in this group include: - Company of the Year - Educational or Research Institution of the Year (no entry fee) - Technical Innovation of the Year - Technology Breakthrough of the Year - New Product of the Year - New Service of the Year - Management Team of the Year - Technology Team of the Year - Lifetime Achievement Award - Executive of the Year - Employee of the Year (no entry fee) 🔗 Explore the full list of categories and submit your nominations by the 11 June Final Entry Deadline: https://hubs.ly/Q04gv2s-0

🏆 Introducing another new AI Achievement Category in the 2026 Stevie® Awards for Great Employers: AI-Enhanced Recruitment and Hiring Achievement. This category recognizes notable single achievements or a series of achievements since the beginning of 2024 where #AI has been used to improve recruitment, candidate matching, screening, or hiring processes. Nominations should address efficiency, quality of hire, candidate experience, and steps taken to mitigate bias and ensure fairness. Request your Entry Kit to learn how to prepare and submit nominations, plus explore all categories that recognize the world's best companies to work for: https://hubs.ly/Q04gkDgP0 🗓️ Submit nominations by the May 7 Primary Entry Deadline to avoid late fees

💬 Hear from Phuong Tran, CEO of EXTENDMAX VIETNAM COMPANY LIMITED. Phuong served as a #StevieAwards judge for the 2024 and 2025 Asia-Pacific Stevie® Awards. Winners in this year's competition were celebrated at an awards ceremony on 17 April at the Venetian Hotel in Macau, China. Entries for the 2027 Asia Stevies will open on 14 October. 👨⚖️ Become a Stevie Awards Judge The Stevie Awards rely on professionals worldwide who volunteer their time and expertise across our nine programs. Judges gain insights into the work of leading organizations and professionals around the globe. Learn about eligibility and apply to judge the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards or any of our programs by visiting: https://hubs.ly/Q04gl7t50

✨New Category in The 2026 International Business Awards®: Global & Cross-Cultural Leader of the Year 🌍 This new category, part of a group of categories for Achievement in Management, honors senior executives who have excelled in leading across multiple countries, regions, or cultures since the beginning of 2024. If you or someone in your organization has demonstrated outstanding leadership on a global scale, consider submitting a nomination in this new category! 🏆The International Business Awards are the world’s premier #businessawards. There are 200+ award categories for virtually every industry, company size, and achievement. Request your Entry Kit to explore the full list of categories, plus tips to prepare and submit successful nominations: https://hubs.ly/Q04g8B1M0 📆 17 June Final Entry Deadline

🏆 Winner Spotlight: SignManager Established in 1999, Stevie-winner SignManager delivers intelligent signage management solutions for major organizations across Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. Rather than manufacturing signs, the company specializes in simplifying the entire signage lifecycle—design, production, installation, and maintenance—while protecting and strengthening client brands. SignManager supports more than 50 major corporate organizations across 150,000 sites and 400,000 signage assets. In the past year, the company achieved its strongest performance in over a decade, with significant profit increases and successful expansion into new sectors through strategic marketing and operational innovation. 🏆 SignManager won a Bronze Stevie® Award in the Company of the Year – Business or Professional Services – Small category at The International Business Awards®. Submit nominations for the 2026 program 👉 https://bit.ly/3OS54ZW #StevieAwardWinner #BusinessAwards #StevieAwards #IndustryAwards

Join us this summer for the 2026 Women|Future Webinar Series! Discover practical strategies to help you grow and future-proof your organization, build credibility through #businessawards, and get firsthand perspectives from #womenentrepreneurs who have successfully built and scaled their businesses. Register: https://lnkd.in/epfcWtY2

🏆 Hear from the CEO of Blancco Technology Group on what winning a Gold Stevie® Award for Technical Innovation of the Year – Information Technology in the 2025 Stevie® Awards for Technology Excellence means to their organization. Blancco develops secure data erasure and device diagnostics solutions that help organizations safely manage end-of-life IT assets while supporting the transition to a circular IT economy. Its software enables enterprises and IT asset disposition (ITAD) providers to securely remove sensitive data and prepare devices for reuse or resale. ⏲️ Don't Miss the 14 May Primary Entry Deadline for the 2026 Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence! Request the Entry Kit & Submit nominations here: https://hubs.ly/Q04fsfh70 #StevieAwards #TechnologyExcellence #IndustryAwards #BusinessExcellence #StevieWinner2026

🏆 Winner Spotlight: Freelancer Stevie-winner Freelancer.com has shifted from a traditional freelance marketplace into a platform designed to coordinate global expertise at scale in the AI era. By combining AI with human talent, the platform now supports complex, enterprise-level challenges, from multilingual AI training to large-scale innovation initiatives. It also enables faster delivery and significant cost efficiencies for organizations worldwide. Freelancer’s model is increasingly aligned with emerging fields such as quantum computing and advanced AI, where expertise is scarce and globally dispersed. By enabling organizations to access and coordinate that expertise, the platform is positioning itself as infrastructure for a new category of innovation work. 🏆Freelancer earned a Gold Stevie® Award for Best Business Technology Pivot in The 2025 International Business Awards®. Read the full blog 👉 https://hubs.ly/Q04bnJB30 Submit nominations for the 2026 program 👉 https://iba.stevieawards.comcom #StevieAwardWinner #BusinessAwards #StevieAwards #IndustryAwards

🏆Five Grand Stevie Award winners have been announced in The 2026 American Business Awards®! 🇺🇸 The Grand Stevie Awards are best-of-competition prizes awarded to organizations that submit the best body of work to the competition, in their own name or in the names of one or more clients. Grand Stevie Awards cannot be applied for directly. Congratulations to this year's Grand Stevie winners: ✨ Organization of the Year: Delta Dental of Kansas (Wichita, KS) ✨ Most Honored Public Relations Agency of the Year: MikeWorldWide (New York, NY) ✨ Most Honored Marketing Agency of the Year: Mountain View Group (Atlanta, GA) ✨ Highest-rated Nomination of the Year: The nomination entitled “From Vision to Legacy: AstraZeneca and Emota Driving Sustainable Innovation,” submitted by the Emota Experience Agency (London, United Kingdom) ✨ Highest-rated New Product Nomination of the Year: The nomination entitled “The AI That Showed Up for the Students Nobody Else Scaled For" submitted by Praxis AI (Pleasanton, CA) Read the announcement for more details about the winners: https://hubs.ly/Q04fqjkt0 #StevieAwards #AmericanBusinessAwards #Stevies #BusinessExcellence