Judges, of which South Africa's Natalia Thomson of Now Media (a 2006 TABPI Young Leaders Scholarship award winner) was one, commented favorably on the high quality of the submissions.
Highlighting the Best Single Issue category — the competition's most comprehensive — are entries from BUILDER, National Real Estate Investor, and Inbound Logistics, which took the Gold, Silver and Bronze awards respectively. The Top 25 of the Best Single Issue category include Modern Healthcare, millimeter, Legal Business, Benefits Canada, Construction Week, Architect, FUEL, and SQM.
Gold design award winners are Information Security for Feature Design, Business Quotient for Front Cover, Digital Imagery; Pharmacy Practice for Front Cover, Illustration; Graphic Arts Monthly, for Front Cover, Photograph; SN's Whole Health/Supermarket News for Front Cover, Special Issue; NYSE for Opening Page or Spread and New Zealand Retail for Table of Contents.
Gold editorial award winners are Storage for Department; Publishers Weekly for Editor's Column; Physicians Practice for Feature Article; Fortune for Focus/Profile Article; BUILDER for How-To Article; Chemist+Druggist for News Coverage; Law Technology News for Regular Column; Network World for Single News Article; NYSE for Special Section and Storage for Technical Article.
This year's Best B2B Website winners are Accountancy Age, Computerworld and Modern Healthcare, which won the Gold, Silver and Bronze awards. In the new Online Feature category, Computerworld, PC World, and Therapy Times won the Gold, Silver and Bronze awards.
Magazines that took home four or more awards are Architect, Computerworld, CRM magazine, Exhibitor Magazine, HemAware, Interiors & Sources, Modern Healthcare, Network World, New Zealand Retail, PC World, Pharmacy Practice, Professionally Speaking, REALTOR Magazine, rt image, and Storage.
Complete results, along with selected comments from the judges and samples of the winning entries, are available at www.tabpi.org/awards.htm. Presented by Trade, Association and Business Publications International (TABPI), this fifth-year editorial and design competition was open to English-language B2B publications worldwide, published at least quarterly.
The 2008 Tabbies were also supported by companies that have an interest in working with B2Beditors and publishers -- as well as supporting editorial and design excellence. The Platinum Sponsor is FosteReprints. Gold Sponsors for the 2008 Tabbies are: Texterity Inc., RedRover Reprint & Content Management Services, BtoB Magazine and Proximity Marketing. Silver Sponsors for the 2008 Tabbies are: Business Strategies Group Asia and Lane Press.
• Based in Cleveland, Ohio, Trade, Association and Business Publications International (TABPI; www.tabpi.org) is a worldwide organisation dedicated to bringing together editors working for English-language publications worldwide, and encourage a common dedication to editorial ethics and excellence. In early 2008, TABPI funded the creation of a new b2b editorial group based in Johannesburg, called TABPI South Africa (www.bizcommunity.com/PressOffice/News.aspx?i=117002).
