Entry Form

Category 1: Best Innovation

Tell us about your latest innovations, inventions, and inspiring projects. Innovation continues to drive this fast paced and ever developing industry forward. We want to hear about the projects that have created a positive impact, a leap forward in best practice, or have been a game changer for your customers or community. It’s time to tell the industry what differentiates your initiatives from the rest, from cleverly utilising new technology to merging gift cards with consumer trends; how is the industry moving forward?

Category 3: The Big ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance) 

ESG: Delivering quality Environmental, Social & Governance practices are an opportunity for companies, organisations, and our wider society. Tell us how your organisation is going above and beyond in the face of these challenges, tackling climate change, supporting human rights or exemplifying quality regulatory compliance. Explain the bold, noble, and admirable strategies you’ve put in place to conquer these issues between January 2023 and now; particularly illustrating a strong commitment and focus to ESG above all else.

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Catgegory 4: Best B2B Product or Service

Once again, the B2B market has taken up the lion’s share of growth for the industry, whilst also retaining the majority share of the gift card market. With new B2B players and exciting initiatives this is a hotly contested category. It’s time to highlight how your B2B strategy is unique, ambitious, and adhering to best practices. Are you the B2B disruptor overcoming challenges with a B2B gift card solution? It’s time to shout about it.

Category 5: Best B2C Product or Service

There’s no doubt that GCVA members are exceptional at understanding their customers, so it’s time to illustrate how your business has really spotted a gap in the market and made gift cards the solution. In this category we want to hear how you have identified and acted on real consumer needs, from supporting customers experiencing financial difficulties, to inspiring them to take up a new activity within their community. Show us how your consumer gift card or service has made the customer the true focus.

Category 6: Team of the Year

This award is for the outstanding team, or teams, working together to create significant impact and achieve brilliant results. Have you discovered the key to working collaboratively across borders or when overcoming a particular challenge? The key to this category is to show collaborative mechanisms in place to achieve greatness, whilst adhering to best practices in all working relationships. Most notably showing how recognising and utilising diverse skill sets can create a fantastic result.

Category 7: Manufacturer of the Year

Manufacturers are at the forefront of the gift card industry: they are the consumers first engagement with the physical product and at the cutting edge of design, personalisation, and use of sustainable materials. As the physical gatekeepers to the industry, it’s imperative that manufacturers stay ahead of the latest innovation and technology. This category asks that entries illustrate how manufacturing fields are integral to the wider gift card industry and in what ways the entrant is carving the way for future best practice.

Category 8: Service Provider of the Year

This award recognises companies that provide services to other organisations in the industry, who have gone above and beyond to drive growth, increase sales and support collaboration and innovation. Show us how you have made a valuable and creative contribution to not only your client’s business’ but also the wider gift card industry through innovation and best practice. Are you paving the way for a brighter gift card future? We want to hear about it. 

Category 9: Retailer/Issuer of the Year

Winning a GCVA Retailer/Issuer award has become the pinnacle for gift card success. This prestigious and coveted award celebrates excellence and innovation in the retailer/issuer eco system and wider gift card industry. This could be through positive consumer experiences, alternative strategies or advances in technology creating state of the art products and services. This category submission should show the resilience within this space and illustrate how gift cards can be the hero and solution.