NMBS and BMF are flying the flag for the merchant industry by being shortlisted at this year’s Memcom Excellence Awards.
The prestigious Memcom Excellence Awards celebrate “innovation and creativity” in UK Trade Associations and Professional Membership Organisations. Run by Memcom, the senior leadership network for the professional membership sector that has been helping individuals and organisations shape and achieve their goals since 2000, this year’s Awards will feature significant representation from the merchant sector with both NMBS and BMF shortlisted for the prizes.
Firstly, Memcom has recognised the success and importance of the annual NMBS exhibition with record merchant and supplier numbers, exclusive exhibition rebates and 24,000 leads at last year’s event seeing the show make the shortlist for the Best In-Person Event.
Dean Hayward, NMBS Head of Sales and Marketing, said: “It is brilliant to see the hard work that our team has put into organising and marketing our NMBS Exhibition has been recognised. We have just finished the 55th NMBS Exhibition, and it was our most successful show yet both for numbers and the strong sense of positivity for the coming year.
“As the Exhibition continues to go from strength to strength it is brilliant to get prestigious recognition from this shortlisting.”
The BMF, meanwhile, has been shortlisted in four categories — Best Trade Association; Best Celebratory Event (in recognition of the inaugural Top 100 Influential Merchants) and Best Use of Data, acknowledging the BMF’s ground-breaking Builders Merchants Building Index (BMBI), whilst BMF CEO John Newcomb is also a nominee for the Memcom CEO Leadership Award.
John said: “We are once again honoured and delighted to see the BMF’s work acknowledged by our peers in the membership community. We are constantly striving to ensure members gain value from their membership and I’m particularly pleased that the work of the whole BMF team has been recognised through our nomination as Best Trade Association.”
The Memcom Excellence Award winners will be announced on 26 September at a ceremony at the Hilton Bankside in London.
