Winners Announced for 2006 Tabbie Awards.

CLEVELAND -- The 2006 Tabbie Awards broke the previous year's record for entries, with almost 800 nominations in editorial and design categories. Entries came from the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Germany, India, Lebanon, Ireland, Singapore, and the United Arab

Highlighting the Best Single Issue category -- the competition's most comprehensive -- are entries from Legal Business, Builder, and Latin Finance, which took the Gold, Silver, and Bronze awards respectively. U.K.-based Legal Business also won the Best Single Issue Gold in 2005. The Top 25 of the Best Single Issue category include IEEE Spectrum, Latin Trade, Accountancy Age, Pursuit Magazine, Automotive News Europe, Construction Week, Network World, Instore, Engineering News-Record, CIO Insight, Indian Architect & Builder, ABA Journal, Executive Magazine, eatdrink Magazine, Wood Design & Building, and Business Insurance.

Gold design award winners are Digital Connect, for Front Cover, Digital Imagery and Table of Contents; CRN, for Opening Page or Spread and Front Cover, Special Issue; Legal Business, for Front Cover, Photograph; and InfoWorld, for Front Cover, Illustration.

Gold editorial award winners are Computerworld, for Editor's Column, News Coverage, Regular Column, and Technical Article; Transmission & Distribution World, for Focus/Profile Article; Vodaworld Magazine for Product Section; Tobacco Reporter, for Feature Article; Digital Connect, for Department; CIO, for How-To Article; and Builder, for Single News Article and Special Section.

Magazines that took home four or more awards include Associations Now, Builder, CIO Decisions, Computerworld, CRN, Digital Connect, Information Security magazine, InfoWorld, Pensions & Investments, Realtor Magazine, RT Image, and Storage Magazine.

The 2006 Tabbies are supported by companies with an interest in working with b2b editors and publishers. Your support of them is appreciated. Gold Sponsors for the 2006 Tabbies are: Business Wire (www.businesswire.com), DHL Global Mail (www.deutschepost.de), Proximity Marketing (www.proximitymarketing.com), Quark Inc. (www.quark.com), and Texterity Inc. (www.texterity.com). Silver Sponsors for the 2006 Tabbies are: Business Strategies Group Asia (www.bsgasia.com), Data Depth Corporation, d/b/a iCopyright.com (www.icopyright.com), RedRover Reprint & Content Management Services (www.redroverreprints.com), and SRDS (www.srds.com).

Presented by Trade, Association and Business Publications International (TABPI), this third year editorial and design competition was open to English-language b2b publications worldwide, published at least quarterly. Complete results, along with selected comments from the judges and samples of the winning entries, are available at www.tabpi.org.

ABOUT TABPI:

Based in Cleveland, Trade, Association and Business Publications International (TABPI; www.tabpi.org) is a worldwide organization dedicated to bringing together editors working for English-language publications worldwide, and encourage a common dedication to editorial ethics and excellence.

TABPI's editorial and design awards program, The Tabbies, is open to English language b2b publications in more than 40 countries, and encompasses 12 editorial and six design categories.