The Women in Marketing Awards are exclusive to the London region and celebrate the outstanding performance of London’s best female marketers, and male marketers working on women’s product campaigns.

Receiving recognition for your hard work brings great satisfaction and boosts your profile, and entering these Awards is your opportunity to shine, and showcase your work with the industry. So send out a clear message that your marketing is exceptional, and get that competitive edge above your peers visit www.wimawards.co.uk and enter today.

The categories – free to enter

1. Best Female Leader in Marketing
2. Best Female Leader in International Marketing
3. Female Fast Track Marketer of the Year
4.  Best Female Marketer – Private Sector
5.  Best Female Marketer – Not-for-Profit
6.  Best Male Marketer for Women’s Campaign
7. Best Female Marketer – Professional Services – sponsored by BDO

Headline sponsored by KevinAllenPartners and Kraft Foods, this year’s Women in Marketing Awards are judged by a panel of high profile and expert markers including:

• Gail Gallie, Fallon London
• Daryl Fielding, Kraft
• Anna Bateson, YouTube EMEA
• Emma Harris, Eurostar
• Helen Kellie, BBC Worldwide
• Andrew McKinlay, Nokia
• Allyson Stewart-Allen, International Marketing Partners.

Important deadlines
Entry deadline: 7 September 2011
Finalists announced: Mid October 2011
Awards ceremony: 3 November 2011.

The LionHeart Challenge  is a programme that takes young people through a series of business challenges designed to hone their entrepreneurial skills and to encourage greater teamwork. Volunteers from a range of professional organisations and businesses help by donating time and knowledge. The final round asked young people to “to conceptualise, design and create a product or device which will become a major aid to fire prevention in the UK.”  Members of the GLR were on hand on July 1st at the Emirates Stadium to help make the event a success. Mocky Khan, GLR Chair, and Phillip Preston, Regional Director, East of England and Greater London, were both judges.  Steve Revill, Robert Harris, Michael Lowkin, Sebastian Franco, Jay Gorasia and Mark Ganellin were all there to offer advice and guidance.

Thinking through a challenge

Each team had the morning to complete a detailed business plan covering product development, pricing, marketing, and budgets. GLR volunteers were there as mentors, to help teams when they needed clarity on marketing issues. The teams were judged on a range of key criteria including the market potential, profit and loss accounting, product design and team performance. And that’s only a few of the areas the teams were scored on. They also had to complete a master plan, PowerPoint Presentation, an ICT mock-up, an advert, a research proposal and a team report. This project was a huge challenge, one where teamwork was absolutely essential.

A real introduction to business