Internet Retailer Announces The Inaugural 2015 Internet Retailer Excellence Awards

Held in Chicago next June during IRCE, the world's largest e-commerce event, the awards ceremony will honor e-retailers' outstanding achievements across multiple categories

Chicago, IL /PRNewswire/ - Internet Retailer, the world's leading publisher of strategic e-commerce business intelligence, today announced the inaugural Internet Retailer Excellence Awards, which recognize the outstanding achievements made by innovative online retailers and consumer brand manufacturers in the past year. Internet Retailer will host the Excellence Awards at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place hotel on June 3, 2015, as the Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition (IRCE)convenes for its 11th straight year. Internet Retailer serves as the official media sponsor of IRCE, which will occur at McCormick Place West in Chicago from June 2-5, 2015.

"We are creating the Internet Retailer Excellence Awards as an annual event in response to the growing role e-commerce plays in the global economy and because of the benefit that any major industry receives when it recognizes leading contributors whose outstanding achievements set a higher standard of performance for all competitors to aspire to," says Internet Retailer Publisher Jack Love. "And after more than a decade of researching and measuring the performance of e-retailers around the world, Internet Retailer is uniquely positioned to objectively provide this recognition."

The Excellence Awards' recipients will be determined by a team comprised of Internet Retailer senior editors and e-commerce industry experts. Based on their performances across multiple categories in 2014, online retailers worldwide will be nominated as contenders for the following awards: Web Redesign of the Year, Comeback of the Year, Newcomer of the Year, E-Retail Growth Award, Marketer of the Year, Best Video of the Year, Mobile Commerce Award, B2B E-Commerce Player of the Year, Global E-Retailer of the Year and the Internet Retailer of the Year. E-retailers can nominate themselves for several award categories; the Newcomer, Global E-Retailer, E-Retail Growth and Internet Retailer of the Year Awards, however, will be determined by e-commerce metrics culled from IR Research.

"We're pleased to launch our Excellence Awards at IRCE, which drives the biggest critical mass in the industry," observes Kurt Peters, Executive Editor of Internet Retailer. "The Awards give everyone the opportunity to learn from the industry's best in a relaxed environment with their peers and then apply those insights to their own businesses after the Excellence Awards and IRCE are over."

A limited number of tickets will be available for e-retailers that are not award nominees but plan on attending the main conference days of IRCE. E-commerce solutions providers can attend the Excellence Awards by procuring a sponsorship package.

For sponsorship information, contact: Tom Duggan, vice president of sales, product development, Internet Retailer, at 312.572.6250 or tduggan@verticalwebmedia.com.

For media inquiries, contact: Anna Applegate, corporate marketing communications, Internet Retailer, at 312.572.6264 or anna@verticalwebmedia.com.

About Internet Retailer®
The flagship brand of Chicago-based Vertical Web Media, Internet Retailer® provides comprehensive e-commerce business intelligence through print and digital channels, including a monthly magazine, several research guides, web sites, online databases, webinars and e-mail newsletters. Internet Retailer, launched in March 1999, is the largest e-retailing monthly magazine with 44,500 subscribers. InternetRetailer.com is the most visited informational web site in e-commerce featuring daily industry news and market analysis. The site attracts more than 205,000 unique monthly visitors. IRNewsLink, a daily e-commerce newsletter, is sent to more than 44,000 subscribers and features a weekly mobile commerce edition.

About Vertical Web Media
Vertical Web Media is a privately held, Chicago-based publisher that focuses on providing business intelligence for the e-commerce industry. Founded and led by journalists, the company aims to be the largest and most credible provider of objective business information on the market trends, technology, competitive practices and people shaping online retailing. Starting with Internet Retailermagazine, launched in 1999, Vertical Web Media has since introduced more than a dozen competitive data products and is now the largest publisher in e-commerce. Through its Internet Retailer® brand, the company operates a monthly magazine, two web sites, a daily e-mail newsletter, and 12 research guides—strategic content designed to equip e-commerce executives with the competitive data they need to help grow their online businesses.