Retailers pick up prizes at CRN awards dinner

What do Micro Anvika, PC World, Quake, Office 95 and Ingram Micro have in common?

They were all winners of CRN retail categories in VNU's 1996 Channel Group Awards, presented at a gala dinner in London last Tuesday.

Micro Anvika, of Tottenham Court Road, won the independent retailer award and PC World the multiple retailer prize. GT Interactive picked up leisure product of the year for Quake, while Microsoft collected business product of the year for Office 95 and overall software product of the year for Windows 95. Ingram Micro won awards for retail distributor of the year and PC distributor of the year. Microtronica won the AMD award for alternative choice.

The awards were presented by Tommorrow's World presenter Phillipa Forrester and Billy Boyle, editor of CRN's sister paper PC Dealer.

This is the third year the Channel Group Awards have run. The winners and nominees are selected by votes from the readers of CRN, PC Dealer and stablemate Var World. Over 3,500 votes were received and independently counted by the Audit Bureau of Circulation.

See page 4 for a full pictorial account of the awards.