Recent Industry Recognitions
Crème de la Crème - Home Accents Today Magazine's 50 "Best and Brightest" Home Accent Retailers
www.cremegifts.com
Home Accents Today (HAT) Magazine annually recognizes 50 of the “Best & Brightest” independent home accent retailers throughout the nation. Americaneagle.com client Crème de la Crème has been featured in HAT’s 50 Retail Stars for 2008. The retailers that are showcased are chosen for their innovative strategies and creative business ideas to drive their sales, play a role in their community, and set themselves apart from the competition. Information in this report was researched by considering and surveying several independent retailers, investigating business publication archives, and talking to industry vendors. Crème de la Crème received this recognition following a full Web site overhaul by Americaneagle.com. For more information on the 50 Retail Stars recognition,
click here.
National Association of the Remodeling Industry - ASAE Gold Circle Winner
www.nari.org
The National Association of the Remodeling Industry (NARI) has been recognized as a 2008 Gold Cirlce Winner by the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) and the Center for Associaion Leadership. NARI's web site, located at www.nari.org was chosen as the winner under the Website category for associations with budgets of $2 million of less. The Gold Circle awards program chose winners based on excellence in communication campaigns. NARI's web site was chosen as the winner following a full redesign launched by Americaneagle.com. For more information on the 2008 ASAE Gold Circle Awards and to view a full list of winners, visit www.asaecenter.org/2008GCAWinners.
Power Equipment Direct - Internet Retailer Top 500 Retailer
www.powerequipmentdirect.com
Each year, Internet Retailer recognizes 500 of the largest e-retailers in thier annual Top 500 guide. This guide serves as the authoritative and comprehensive analysis of the 500 largest e-retailers in the U.S., based on annual Web sales, search engine rankings, and other key features. In 2008, Americaneagle.com customer Power Equipment Direct ranked in at #358. Power Equipment Direct’s many superstore Web sites include SnowBlowersDirect.com, PressureWashersDirect.com, and ElectricGeneratorsDirect.com. Americaneagle.com assisted with the design of these sites. Americaneagle.com congratulates Power Equipment Direct and is proud to be the site design vendor to a Top 500 retailer. For more information on this recognition, click here.
Fannie May and School Specialty Publishing - Multichannel Merchant - MCM 100 Web sites
www.fanniemay.com
Two Americaneagle.com customers received recognition in MultiChannel Merchant’s 2008 MCM 100: The Major Players list. Fannie May, a 1-800-FLOWERS brand, and School Specialty Publishing, a member of the School Specialty family of brands were both family brands of the companies listed as “major players” in the online retail world. The MCM 100 list was compiled by the Multichannel Merchant editorial staff following an in-depth analysis of public records, data cards, and input from financial analysts and sources within the industry. The FannieMay.com and SchoolSpecialtyPublishing.com websites were both designed and developed by Americaneagle.com. For more information on this recognition, click here.
Snow Blowers Direct - Internet Retailer "Hot 100" Web site
www.snowblowersdirect.com
Internet Retailer recognizes a select number of e-commerce Web sites each year for their innovative approaches to online retailing. Among the "Hot 100" selected by Internet Retailer for 2008 was Americaneagle.com client Snow Blowers Direct (www.snowblowersdirect.com). As a leading snowblower superstore, Snow Blowers Direct was selected as a pace-setting Hot 100 Web site following a complete redesign by Americaneagle.com. Kurt Peters, editor in chief of Internet Retailer noted, "Retailers in our Hot 100 represent the range of online retailing, from small to large, and include chains, catalogers, online-only merchants and brand name manuyfacturers. They have in common the willingness to innovate and set the standards in online retailing for what the rest of the industry should be doing." For more information on SnowBlowersDirect.com, click here.
BOMA Chicago - 2007 BOMA International Best Practices Award
www.boma-chicago.org
The Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) of Chicago Web site, located at www.boma-chicago.org, was recently awarded the 2007 BOMA International Best Practices Award for the Web site developed with Americaneagle.com. This award, presented at the Board of Governors meeting at the Commercial Real Estate Congress and Office Building Show in New York City, is a prestigious recognition that distinguishes one Web site out of over 100 BOMA organizations from all over the world. BOMA Chicago won the award in the Electronic & Interactive Communication Category as well as an award in the Marketing Communications Category. Americaneagle.com proudly celebrates the achievement of this honor alongside BOMA Chicago.
The Joint Commision Annual Report - Hermes Creative Awards Gold Award
www.jointcommissionreport.org
Americaneagle.com also proudly celebrates the award obtained by The Joint Commission. Following the development of the Joint Commission’s Annual Report Web site, located at www.jointcommissionreport.org, the Joint Commission has been honored with the Hermes Creative Awards Gold Award. The Hermes Creative Awards is an international competition for creative professionals involved in the concept, writing and design of traditional materials and programs, and emerging technologies. The awards competition, which was administered and judged by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals, recognized The Joint Commission Annual Report Web site as one that sets a standard for excellence. For more information on the Hermes Awards, please visit www.hermesawards.com.
Chiasso - Internet Retailer Magazine Best of the Web Top 50
www.chiasso.com
Internet Retailer recently recognized Chiasso.com as one the Top 50 Retailing Sites for 2007 in their annual selection of the Best of the Web. Internet Retailer’s Best of the Web recognizes sites in eight categories, all of which have adopted interesting approaches to online retailing. As a retailer of modern furnishings, Chiasso ranks in the Housewares/ Home Furnishings category—the company’s first appearance in the Top 50. This recognition comes after Americaneagle.com gave Chiasso’s online storefront a major overhaul. More information can be found at the Internet Retailer site.
Washington Capitals - Forbes.com Best Web Pick
www.washingtoncaps.com
Forbes.com – a leading Internet media company - has recently recognized WashingtonCaps.com as the best Web site in the National Hockey League within its “Ultimate Hockey Franchise” feature. This feature acknowledged 10 different categories that encompass the framework for an ultimate franchise. Forbes.com writer Kurt Badenhausen noted, “No team is as devoted to their online content as the Caps, owned by AOL honcho Ted Leonsis. The site uses audio, video and writing to offer comprehensive pre- and post-game coverage. It does a brisk ticket business, as well, with more than 2,000 tickets sold online in the 24 hours leading up to the team's home opener this season.” To view the Forbes.com story online, click here.
New York Giants - NFL Best Site Design Internet Award
www.giants.com
The NFL recently recognized the New York Giants Web site, developed by Americaneagle.com, for its outstanding design. At its annual Internet Awards event, the NFL selects those club sites that stand out from other clubs in various categories such as best content, best fan interactivity, and in the case of the New York Giants, best site design. To view the award-winning design, visit www.giants.com.
NASCAR Partners - 2006 W3 Award, Silver Disitinction
www.nascarpartners.com
Americaneagle.com is pleased to announce that client, NASCARPartners.com, is a recipient of a 2006 W3 Award, Silver Distinction. The W3 Awards honors creative excellence on the Web, and recognizes the creative and marketing professionals behind award winning web sites and marketing programs. The W3 Awards is sanctioned and judged by The International Academy of the Visual Arts, an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals of acclaimed media, interactive, advertising, and marketing firms. This year, honor is given to NASCARPartners.com after a major overhaul of the branding and functionality of this online portal for NASCAR sponsors. More information can be found at the W3 Awards site.
Schaul's Signature Gourmet Foods - 2006 Multichannel Merchant Award
www.schauls.com
Schaul’s Signature Gourmet Foods was honored as one of the best new Web merchants at the 2006 Multichannel Merchant Awards. This award comes after Americaneagle.com’s recent creation of Schaul’s ecommerce channel, www.schauls.com, which sells premium food for personal dining and gift giving. The site, featuring several navigation methods, monthly gift plans, and online promotions, combines Web site development and search engine strategy to generate a year-round stream of online sales. More information can be found at the Multichannel Merchant Awards site.
Irvin-Simon Photographers - Create Magazine Recognition
www.irvin-simon.com
Create Magazine—a publication targeted to creative professionals—offers recognition of Americaneagle.com in the 2005 Winter issue. This edition takes time to acknowledge outstanding sites that “combine new world technology with old world sensibilities.” Of those mentioned, Americaneagle.com receives merit for the creative efforts of www.irvin-simon.com. Irvin Simon Photographers, specializing in children’s school portraitures, teamed up with Americaneagle.com to design a user-friendly online reordering center. The end result is an “easy-to-use site that offers bite-sized chunks of information,” enveloped in a fluid and vibrant graphic design.