And the Award goes to...

There are many awards – for movies, actresses, music, wines, cars. The list is endless. But now there is also something new: the TAB-Awards.

TAB-Austria sells its products all over the world with specially selected distributors. For the first time a prize was awarded to the Upper Austrian company’s best partners from a short list of 40 in three different categories: “Best Marketing”, “Best Technical Performance” and “Best Overall Performance”. The awards were presented on January 25^th in London.

This special evening started with cocktails followed by fine dinner with various Austrian wines. A brief presentation overviewing the company’s history, and its upcoming activities was then given. The awards were then presented. As soon as the single envelopes were handed out the names of the winners were awaited by all with suspense.

Honoured were Bally Wulff, Germany for the best marketing, Leisure Tech, Dubai as company with the “Best Technical Performance” and Norditalia, Italy for the “Best Overall Performance”.

The companies were valued and selected because of their performance over previous years. Special attention was also made of their results in 2005. “It wasn’t about how many terminals each distributor bought. The point was, how much commitment and engagement the partner showed. Believe me, it was not easy to come to a decision because we’re really lucky to have so many good and dedicated partners.”, said Mr. Siegfried Dattl jr., the Managing Director of TAB-Austria. To show that several partners deserved to win the prizes, three companies were nominated in each category.

After the celebration there was wine tasting of numerous award winning wines from Burgenland, Austria presented by the Austrian wine-growers Birgit Braunstein and Martin Pasler.

The party lasted into the early hours. Everybody who wasn’t able to join this special evening can look forward to 2007 when it is said again: “And the award goes to…”

Bally Wulff, Germany		Leisure Tech, Dubai		Norditalia, Italy