Finalists in the 17th Annual Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service, an international competition recognizing excellence in disciplines that are crucial to business success, were announced today.    

A diverse group of organizations and individuals around the world are among those recognized in the customer service awards, contact center awards, business development awards, and sales awards categories. 

Organizations with five or more Finalist nominations include Anexa BPO (Mexico City, Mexico), Blackhawk Network (Pleasanton CA USA), Cinch Home Services (Boca Raton, FL USA), ClearSource BPO (Pleasant Grove, UT USA), Datasite (Minneapolis, MN USA), DP DHL (worldwide), Druva Inc. (Santa Clara, CA USA), GoHealth (Chicago, IL USA), IBM (worldwide), Justworks (New York, NY USA), Michael Kors (New York, NY USA), Optum (Eden Prairie, MN USA), PowerSchool Group LLC (Folsom, CA USA), PT Telkom Indonesia (Persero), Tbk (Jakarta, Indonesia), Purpol Marketing Limited (Chippenham, United Kingdom), Sales Partnerships, Inc. (Broomfield, CO USA), SAP (worldwide), SoftPro (Raleigh, NC USA), Support Services Group, Inc (Waco, TX USA), Talkdesk (San Francisco, CA USA), TransPerfect (New York, NY USA), UPMC Health Plan (Pittsburgh, PA USA), and ValueSelling Associates Inc. (Carlsbad, CA, USA).

For a full list of Finalists by category, visit www.StevieAwards.com/Sales.

All Finalist nominations ultimately will be named Gold, Silver and Bronze Stevie Award winners. The placements will be revealed during a gala banquet on Friday, March 3 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. Tickets are now on sale.

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

More than 2,300 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were evaluated in this year’s competition. Finalists were determined by the average scores of more than 170 professionals worldwide in seven specialized judging committees. Entries were considered in more than 60 categories for customer service and contact center achievements, including Contact Center of the Year, Award for Innovation in Customer Service, and Customer Service Department of the Year; 60 categories for sales and business development achievements, ranging from Senior Sales Executive of the Year to Sales Training or Business Development Executive of the Year to Sales Department of the Year; and categories to recognize new products and services and solution providers, among others.

Beginning today through February 17, the general public may vote for their favorite providers of customer service in the People’s Choice Stevie® Awards for Favorite Customer Service. Voting is open at http://peopleschoice.stevieawards.com. Winners of the People’s Choice Stevie Awards in multiple industries will be determined in mid-February and honored at the awards gala in Las Vegas on March 3.

Nominations for a special prize, the Sales Partnerships Ethics in Sales Award, remain open through February 3. Nominations to that category are free. Winners will also be announced and recognized at the March 3 ceremony.