Promo Marketing's annual Supplier Excellence Awards give distributors the ability to vote for their favorite suppliers in a host of hard goods and apparel categories. Like last year, we reached out to a panel of some of the most experienced and successful distributors in the industry to refine our list of semifinalists to the finalists. Then, we left it up to you. We asked you to vote for your favorite supplier in each of the 40 product and apparel categories. Thanks to the thousands of you who voted, we narrowed down the list of finalists to the winners listed on the following pages.
In our July issue, you will find the gold, silver and bronze winners, as well as examples of their products in that category. Because we limited suppliers to only their top categories—up to three in the Classic categories and three in the STYLE categories—new winners emerged. Eighty-three companies won in 40 categories overall, with 32 of those companies winning gold.
The full list of winners by category is available now, and more information on the companies and their products can be found in the July 2014 issue of Promo Marketing.