Flooring America wins Silver Stevie® Award in the Consumer Brand Experience category for its Where Friends Send Friends Mobile Tour in The 12th Annual American Business Awards.

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.

Nicknamed the Stevies for the Greek word for “crowned,” the trophies were presented to winners during a gala banquet on Friday, June 13 at the Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park Hotel.  More than 400 nominees and their guests attended.  The presentations will be broadcast by the BizTalk Radio Network this week on Tuesday and Friday nights.

Flooring America’s 10-city Where Friends Send Friends Mobile Marketing Tour logged over 10,000 miles and captured the spirit of hundreds of real customers on why they choose to shop at their local Flooring America stores. The testimonials were used in Flooring America’s national marketing campaigns, including digital, social, broadcast and more.

“It’s fantastic to have been named a Silver winner for this year’s Stevie Awards for the Where Friends Send Friends mobile tour,” said Frank Chiera, Vice President of Marketing for Flooring America. “Our goal with the tour was to engage with customers in a unique way to gain valuable insight as to why our customers shop with us. This recognition validates the resources we invested in this tour on our quest to becoming the most recommended flooring store in North America.“

More than 3,300 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry were submitted this year for consideration in a wide range of 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, among others.

Stevie Award winners were selected by more than 240 executives worldwide who participated in the judging process this year.

“It’s an honor for us to recognize and celebrate such an outstanding class of organizations and individuals,” said Michael Gallagher, president and founder of the Stevie Awards.  “The judges were especially discerning this year.  All of this year’s Gold, Silver and Bronze Stevie winners should be proud that the judges recognized their achievements and their ability to express those achievements in a way that captured the judges’ hearts and imaginations.”

Details about The American Business Awards and the lists of Stevie winners who were announced on June 13 are available at http://www.StevieAwards.com/ABA.

About Flooring America
Flooring America is a division of CCA Global Partners the nation’s largest floor covering cooperative. With more than 550 independent, locally-owned flooring retailers, Flooring America’s member stores work hard every day to become the most recommended flooring stores in North America. Flooring America’s independent retailers strive to make customers deliriously happy by guiding, advising and finding the right floor to make homes beautiful. We are the flooring store where friends send friends for their new floors.

About the Stevie Awards
Stevie Awards are conferred in five programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service.  A sixth program, the German Stevie Awards, will debut later this year.  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 http://www.StevieAwards.com.

Sponsors and partners of The 2014 American Business Awards include Biz Talk Radio, CallidusCloud, Citrix Online, Cvent, Engility, John Hancock, LycaMobile, PetRays, and Softpro.