WiLife Takes Home Two Awards At Retailvision

By Doug Olenick -- TWICE, 9/5/2006

Denver - In what was one of the more evenly matched Retailvision award contests, wireless surveillance camera maker WiLife took home two awards while the remaining nine plaques went to nine different companies.

WiLife took home the Best Hardware and Best New Technology awards, while Neat Receipts, which makes a portable business card/receipt scanner, won for Best Peripheral. Battery Biz was named Best Accessory and Stamps.com won Best Software for its application that placed a digital image onto a postage stamp.

Ben Kaufman, Illuminator and founder of Mophie, accepting the trophy for Best Retail Strategy.

Best Product: Digital Home went to mStation for its iPod audio products, while another iPod-family member Mophie won Best Retail Strategy. Griffin Technology took the stage for Best Merchandising and the Continental Promotions Group was named Best Presenter. Hard drive maker Lacie was tapped as Best Vendor and FreeFlow the Best Service Provider.

The two awards for the Latin American segment of the show went to Logitech for Best Strategy and Griffin Technology for Best Vendor.

RetailVision Fall 2006 - Nominees and Award Winners

Best: Product: Hardware

Nominees:
1.Archos Technology
2. Lacie
3. Neat Receipts
4.Sling Media
5. WiLife
Winner:WiLife

Best: ProductPeripheral

Nominees:
1.Laserline
2. Logitech
3. Neat Receipts
4. Sling Media
5. WiLife
Winner: Neat Receipts

Best Product: Accessory

Nominees:
1. Battery-Biz, Inc.
2.IOGEAR
3. Jasco Products
4.Pantone
5. Xantrex Technology
Winner: Battery-Biz, Inc.

Best Product: Software

Nominees:
1.BitDefender
2. IRIS
3. Stamps.com
4. Stardock Corp.
5. Symantec
Winner: Stamps.com

Best Product: Digital Home

Nominees:
1.Corinex Communications
2.mStation Corporation
3. Neat Receipts
4.Sling Media
5. WiLife
Winner:mStation Corportation

Best Merchandising:

Nominees:
1.GearHead LLC
2.Griffin Technology
3. Lacie
4. Logitech
5. Mophie
Winner:GriffinTechnology

Best Retail Strategy:

Nominees:
1. Griffin Technology
2.Jasco Products
3. Lacie
4. Mophie
5. Woot
Winner: Mophie

Best Presentation:

Nominees:
1.Continental Promotion Group
2.Griffin Technology
3. Jasco Products
4. USRobotics
5. Western Digital
Winner: Continental Promotion Group

Best New Technology

Nominees:
1. Corinex Communications
2.Logitech
3. mStation
4. Sling Media
5.WiLife
Winner: WiLife

Best Vendor:

Nominees:
1. Griffin Technology
2.Jasco Products
3. Lacie
4. Logitech
5. Western Digital
Winner:Lacie

Best Service Provider

Nominees:
1. FreeFlow
2. Inoveris
3. Velocity Fulfillments
Winner: FreeFlow

Latin America :Best Strategy:

Nominee:
1. Griffin Technology
2. InFocus
3. Logitech
Winner: Logitech

Latin America : Best Vendor:

Nominees:
1. Griffin Technology
2. InFocus
3. Lacie
Winner:GriffinTechnology