Landor.com: Winner! Best Consulting Web site of 2006
Web site judged best amongst consulting firms; company's intranet Web application, Landornet, wins Excellence Award
Best ConsultingWeb site 2006
San Francisco, 27 September 2006 - Landor.com, the corporate Web site for global brand consulting firm Landor Associates, was named Best Consulting Web Site of 2006 in the Web Marketing Association's (WMA) Tenth Annual International Web Marketing Awards. Landor's company intranet, LandorNet, also vied for honors in the WMA competition and won a Standard of Excellence Award, an accolade placing it in the top percentile of all corparate intranets.
Over 2,300 Web sites from 35 countries vied for honors in this year's WMA competition. In the consulting category, Landor beat out leading organizations such as Accenture, Jack Morton Worldwide, and more than a dozen other top contenders to win the best-of-industry title. "While we're ecstatic and gratified by this accolade, we think we can do even better," said Larry Green, Landor's corporate Web project manager. "This award is a great benchmark against which to measure our future efforts as we build out the Landor brand online. We relish the challenge."
Sites entered in the WMA competition were rated across seven criteria (design, copywriting, innovation, content, interactivity, navigation, use of technology) using a 10-point scoring system. The highest score possible was 70; Landor.com tallied 66.5. The average score for other Web sites in the consulting category was 52.4; the average score for the several thousand sites entered in 95 other categories in the overall WMA competition was: 50.9.
For Landornet, the company's intranet, the Excellence Award was the second honor it has received in the last three years. In 2003, Landornet was named one of the Top Ten Intranets by the Nielsen Norman group.
Additional information about the Best Consulting Web Site Award can be found on the WMA WebAward site: www.webaward.org.
For more information, please contact:
Lawrence "Larry" Green
Corporate Web Manager
Landor Associates
415-365-4411
larry_green@sfo.landor.com
Mindy Romero
Manager, Public Relations
Landor Associates
212.614.5261
mindy_romero@landor.com
About WebAwards
Founded by the Web Marketing Association in 1997, the WebAwards is the standards-defining competition that sets industry benchmarks based on the seven criteria of a successful website. The goal of the WebAwards is to provide a forum to recognize the people and organizations responsible for developing some of the most effective websites on the Internet today. Beyond validation, entrants benefit from a website assessment by a professional judging panel, which provides specific feedback on how each site ranks against standards of excellence. For more information, visit: www.webaward.org.
