A handful of Panasonics’ finest Premier Integrators were honoured at the PPI awards held at Jongleurs comedy club in Birmingham on Wednesday 23rd May. The ceremony took place during IFSEC 2007, one of the industry's most important security exhibitions of the year, and proved to be a first class evening.

The awards night was the first ceremony hosted by Panasonic solely for premier integrators and aimed to recognise those organisations and individuals that have delivered exemplary service during the past year.

Entries were submitted by PPIs around the UK and the judging process took place in association with the most respected magazines in the industry including SMT, Security Installer and PSI alongside Panasonic System Solutions Technical, Sales and Marketing representatives. This brings a strong level of independent accreditation to the awards, with editors bringing their own knowledge and experience to the judging process.

The winners:
• Best PPI – VIS
• Best Project – Clear Image for University of Bradford
• Best Marketing Initiative – Pointer Ltd
• Best Engineer – Dave Rogers, OCS
• Best Sales Person – Gerry Numa, Acctive Systems

After such a successful debut, Panasonic has already started planning for next year’s awards ceremony and with Panasonic looking to further this scheme amongst other installers over the next year, it can only get bigger and better!