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Final judging of The 2013 (10th Annual) International Business Awards, the world's topbusiness honors, is set to begin next week, and the names of the chairs of the 10 final judging committees have been revealed.

The IBAs recognize achievement in every facet of the workplace, and this year received a record-number of entries from organizations in more than 50 nations.  Final judging will begin on July 29 and conclude on August 7, and will determine the Gold, Silver and Bronze Stevie® Award winners who will then be announced on August 14.  The awards themselves will be presented on October 14 at the W Hotel in Barcelona, Spain.

Here are the chairs of this year's final judging committees:

Company / Organization Categories: Dr. Kim Ki-hak, CEO, KEPCO Nuclear Fuel Co., Ltd, Seoul, Korea

Corporate Communications, Investor Relations & Public Relations: Kevin Read, Managing Director, Bell Pottinger Business & Brand, London, United Kingdom

Creative Media: Egemen Ozcan, Director, Boogy The Event Company, Istanbul, Turkey

Customer Service & Support: Angela Blevins, Vice President, Customer Care, Bluegreen Corporation, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

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Duffey Communications of Atlanta, Georgia, USA earned a Gold Stevie® Award for Communications or PR Campaign of the Year in the the 2012 Stevie Awards for Women in Business, the world's top honors for women executives, entrepreneurs, employees and the organizations they run. (Entries are now being accepted for the 2013 edition of the awards - review the entry kit here.)

Child trafficking is a rampant problem worldwide, and Atlanta, Georgia, ranks among the FBI’s top 14 U.S. cities for criminal pimping activity. A Future. Not A Past. (AFNAP)­ was launched in Georgia in 2007 to stop the domestic prostitution of adolescent girls. Stevie Award winner Duffey Communications has played a major role in shining a light on this problem.

Overcoming Public Apathy
Duffey Communications worked with a coalition, including the Juvenile Justice Fund (now youthSpark), to develop the campaign’s name, brand, and strategy – and rollout the initiative statewide.  The challenge over the time was to overcome public apathy, because most people at that point ignored the issue or believed it only existed in other countries. 

This challenge was met when Keisha Head, a survivor of domestic child trafficking, volunteered in 2011 to serve as AFNAP’s spokesperson. Keisha agreed to tell her story on behalf of AFNAP to elevate public awareness about child trafficking within the United States.

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Voting is now open for the fifth annual edition of the People's Choice Stevie® Awards for Favorite New Products, a feature of The American Business Awards.  Anyone may vote for their favorite new products and services in more than 30 categories at PeoplesChoice.StevieAwards.com.

Among the categories are Favorite Cloud App/Service, Favorite Consumer Product, Favorite Telecommunications Service, and Favorite Hardware. Voting will close on August 9.

All new products and services that were nominated in the new product awards categories of The 2013 American Business Awards are automatically included in people’s choice voting. Organizations will have the opportunity to win two awards: a Gold, Silver, or Bronze Stevie Award, as determined by professionals in the ABAs’ peer-review judging, and a crystal People's Choice Stevie Award, as determined by the public vote.

Winners of the crystal People's Choice Stevie Awards will be announced at The American Business Awards' new product and tech awards banquet at the Julia Morgan Ballroom in San Francisco on September 16.

Past winners of the People’s Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite New Products include Apple, Boost Mobile, Dow Jones, and Samsung.

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Winners of the 21st annual Golden World Awards for Public Relations Excellence, staged by the International Public Relations Association and managed by the Stevie Awards, have been notified. A public announcement of the winners will be made in September...

The 2014 (8th annual) Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service will open for entries this July 31. Join the mailing list, and you'll be emailed the entry kit on August 1...

The Stevie Awards will soon launch its fifth awards program, the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards. This program will be open exclusively to organizations operating in the 22 nations that comprise the Asia-Pacific region. Join the mailing list for these awards and we'll send you the entry kit as soon as it's available...

You're invited to apply to be a preliminary-round judge in this year's Stevie Awards for Women in Business. As a judge you'll see how many women and organizations around the world are innovating and achieving success, and you'll receive a certificate of appreciation suitable for framing. Judging will begin in September...

August 9: Voting closes for People's Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite New Products

August 14: Results announced in 10th International Business Awards

August 28 : Entry deadline for 10th Stevie Awards for Women in Business

September 16: Second of two American Business Awards banquets, Julia Morgan Ballroom @ The Merchants Exchange, San Francisco