How to Enter

The Awards are now closed for nominations for 2008.

News of next year's Awards will be posted on this site in January 2009.

Entry of Nominations and Judging Information

All submissions must be received by the organisers no later than Thursday, 11th September 2008.

All nominations will initially be judged by the Managing Editor and Publisher of Builders' Merchants News, who will compile a shortlist of entries for each category. A judging panel of leading merchant industry figures will then judge each shortlist and determine a winner and two runners-up for each category.

Tips for Entering Nominations

The information you provide must be correct to the best of your knowledge
Ensure that your submission is entirely relevant to the category of award
Be succinct, make your nominations clear and simple
Use bullet points to help highlight your statements
Nominations can be entered with pictures and/or brief support material
Judges will be looking for evidence of sound strategies, achievement and innovation

Nomination Qualifications

Nominations will be accepted from builders, plumbers, timber, decorator, heating and other merchants, merchant wholesalers/distributors, architectural ironmongers, manufacturers and suppliers, housebuilders and contractors and installers and other supplier industry customers.

Nominations can be submitted for any Builders' Merchant or staff of a Merchant by third parties and Builders' Merchants are encouraged to submit nominations for their own company's/ their staff.

Companies and people can be nominated for more than one category of award.

All nominations will be treated in confidence and no part of any submission will be shown to anyone except the Awards judges.

Entry Forms

Click on Award Categories to fill in your appropriate entry form.

For those not entering online additional entry forms are available from David Wilson at Builders’ Merchants Awards for Excellence 2008, Hereford House, Bridle Path, Croydon, CR9 4NL. Tel: 020 8680 4200 Fax: 020 8680 8400
Email:  dvw@buildersmerchantsnews.co.uk