Benifex and Pan American Energy named top winners of the year

Benifex (Southampton, UK) and Pan American Energy (Buenos Aires, Argentina) have won the Grand (“best of show”) Stevie® Award trophies in the tenth annual Stevie Awards for Great Employers.

The Stevie Awards for Great Employers are an international business awards competition that are open to all organizations worldwide. The awards recognize the world's best organizations to work for, and the HR teams, professionals, achievements, new products, and suppliers that help create and drive great places to work. The competition’s Gold, Silver, and Bronze Stevie winners in the various categories were announced two weeks ago and are available at www.StevieAwards.com/HR.

Benifex has won the Grand Stevie for Organization of the Year, on the strength of 30.5 award points earned by six Gold, four Silver, and three Bronze Stevie wins. Benifex submitted winning nominations on behalf of themselves and clients, including Acorn, Bupa, Convex, Flutter Entertainment, NATS, Refresco, and Whyte & Mackay. To determine the Organization of the Year Grand winner, each Gold Stevie win counts for three points, each Silver Stevie for two points, and each Bronze Stevie win for one-and-a-half points.

The Grand Stevie Award for the Highest-Rated Nomination of the Year goes to Pan American Energy of Buenos Aires, Argentina, for their submission titled “Elevating Training with VR.” Earning an impressive average score of 9.6 points out of 10 from the judges, it stands as the highest-scoring nomination in the 2025 competition. The entry also received the Gold Stevie Award for Best Use of Virtual Worlds for Learning. This achievement marks the first-ever Grand Stevie Award win by an Argentina-based organization.

Winners will be celebrated during a joint awards ceremony with the second annual Stevie Awards for Technology Excellence at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City on September 16. Tickets are now on sale. The presentations will be broadcast live.

More than 1,000 nominations from organizations in 35 nations and territories were evaluated in this year’s competition. Winners were determined by the average scores of more than 115 professionals worldwide, acting as judges. The Stevie Awards for Great Employers recognize achievement in many facets of the workplace.

Categories include:

• Employer of the Year Categories
• HR Achievement Categories
• HR Individual Categories
• HR Team Categories
• Solution Provider Categories
• Solutions, Implementations, and Training Programs or Media Categories
• Thought Leadership Categories

The awards are presented by the Stevie Awards, which organizes nine of the world’s leading business awards shows, including The International Business Awards® and The American Business Awards®.