Weather Trends International was named a Finalist for the 2011 American Business “Stevie” Awards in 6 categories:
1. Creative Web Site of the Year – Diversified Services
2. New Product or Service of the Year – Media & Entertainment
3. People’s Choice Award New Product or Service of the Year
4. Business Innovation of the Year
5. Information Technology Team of the Year
6. Information Technology Executive of the Year
The American Business Awards are the nation’s premier business awards program. All organizations operating in the U.S.A. are eligible to submit nominations - public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small.
This year’s Stevie Award winners will be announced during the annual gala on Monday, June 20 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. More than six-hundred executives from across the U.S.A. are expected to attend. The event will benefit Camfed (camfed.org), which fights poverty and HIV/AIDS in Africa by educating girls and empowering women to become leaders of change. The ceremonies will be broadcast on radio nationwide by the Business TalkRadio Network.
More than 2,800 nominations from organizations of all sizes, and in virtually every industry, were submitted this year for consideration in more than 40 categories, including Most Innovative Company of the Year, Management Team of the Year, Best New Product or Service of the Year, Corporate Social Responsibility Program of the Year, and Executive of the Year.
“We are absolutely thrilled to be named a Finalist in so many categories for our new and free global year-ahead weather forecasting web site www.weathertrends360.com,” said Bill Kirk, CEO Weather Trends International. “Who hasn’t planned a vacation, a party or wedding only to have the weather not cooperate? With wt360.com you can better plan your special days almost a year in the future anywhere in the world so you never have to leave weather to chance ever again,” added Kirk.
Weathertrends360 forecasts are independently audited by 3rd party Forecast Watch and are proven to be the most accurate in the industry. So, whether you need to know the weather in the next hour or the next week or the next year anywhere in the world, wt360 has you covered. The technology was also recognized by Forbes and ranked 5th as America’s Most Promising Company and now freely available to consumers everywhere!
ABA Finalists were chosen by business professionals nationwide during preliminary judging in April and May. Stevie Award winners will be selected from among the Finalists in each category next week by members of 10 specialized final judging committees. More than 150 executives will have participated in judging this year.
Details about The American Business Awards and the list of Finalists in all categories are available at www.stevieawards.com/aba. Sponsors and partners of The 2011 American Business Awards include Infogroup, IBM Netezza, American Support, Citrix Online, Epic Media Group, High Performance Technologies Inc., iolo technologies, LifeLock, Merisel, PetRays, SDL, SoftPro, and Vérité, Inc.
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About Weather Trends International
The global leader of actionable year-ahead business weather guidance for retailers, manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, agricultural firms, financial analysts and now consumers worldwide. Clients include some of the world’s most respected and successful companies like Wal-Mart, Kohl’s, Target, AutoZone, Anheuser-Busch, Johnson & Johnson, Clorox, Energizer, 3M, JP Morgan, Agway, Hershey’s and over a hundred others. Its business centric weather solutions and understanding of how consumers respond to the weather is used throughout organizations to help "manage the weather risk”. Utilizing technology first developed in the early 1990s, Weather Trends International’s unique statistical math based trade secret formula forecasting methodology projects temperature, precipitation and snowfall trends by day and week a year-ahead for millions of locations in all 195 countries with industry leading 80%+ accuracy. WTI is recipient of five business and technology awards including #5 on Forbes Magazine’s list as America’s Most Promising Company. Offices in Bethlehem, PA and Bentonville, AR. Visit www.wxtrends.com or www.wt360.com for more information.
About the Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about The Stevie Awards at www.stevieawards.com.
