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editorial
Changes to the
2020 Hardware
Awards
AFTER THE INDUSTRY lost the best part of 5-6 weeks during lockdown, the May- June Digital Edition and magazine were nally signed o the day before we went into the relative luxury and freedom of Alert Level 1.
Since then, for us and for all the suppliers, retailers and merchants we’ve been talking to, it’s been far from “business as usual”.
In fact, everyone I’ve talked to recently has a subtly di erent take on what their “new normal” is...
Related to this, and with the pandemic and its ongoing e ects on our chosen industry in terms of lost time and resource top of mind, we have spent the last few weeks assessing how the 2020 Hardware Awards could and should t into this “new normal”.
We remain convinced that there is still a real need to come together this year and celebrate everything that’s great about our industry.
However, we also recognise a need to make up for lost time...
So, we’ve pushed the 2020 program out by a month and made a few changes to help streamline the nal event slightly – and yet retain the all-important
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erefore please note the following
changes to dates (including nomination and entry deadline extensions!) and categories...
A later date for the 2020 Gala Awards Dinner:
Wednesday 4 November at Cordis, Auckland (was 1 October). Don’t forget to book your tickets!
Simplifying the 2020 Hardware Awards categories:
Retail Store of the Year and Trade Store of the Year are no longer broken into large and small.
e key criteria of these two categories is quality of service rather than scale or quantity, after all.
ere are no changes to the Retailer, Young Retailer, Supplier Account Manager or Supplier of the Year categories.
More time with extended nomination & entry deadlines:
Retailer, Young Retailer and Supplier Account Manager of the Year – Nominations close 24 July. Entries close 7 August.
Retail and Trade Stores of the Year – Nominations close 24 July. Judging deadline 4 September.
Suppliers of the Year – Nominations close 24 July. Judging deadline 4 September.
If you have any questions or queries related to the Hardware Awards or anything else come to that, just drop me a line!
Steve Bohling, editor steveb@mpm.nz
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