Commercial Cannabis Awards
GHP News is excited to announce the return of our Commercial Cannabis Awards! The awards aim to reward and expose those pioneering individuals and firms who have stood in the face of adversity to create a booming industry through helping those in need.
The Commercial Cannabis Awards are your chance to talk to our audience about your experiences within a once controversial industry, how you haven taken steps in helping people with pains and illnesses and building upon a young industry despite opposition.
Medical research has showed the use of cannabis and hemp products to be safe and effective for many ailments. Even in countries where the use of marijuana is still illegal, people are reaping the benefits of Hemp and CBD products.
Taking part in the Commercial Cannabis Awards is the perfect way to showcase your new products and innovations to an audience of top level CEOs and healthcare professionals, as well as showing your employees that their efforts are valued by the organisation, whilst also providing the public with evidence of your successes as a business. Notifying stakeholders of your participation in our programme indicates that your business is garnering the attention of third parties, and that your work or your expertise, customer service or products offered are creating a buzz within the industry.
The Commercial Cannabis Awards welcomes nominations from all who work in the sector, including but not limited to doctors, cultivators, budtenders, lawyers, retailers, dispensaries, researchers, insurance companies, technicians and more! The awards will highlight those companies who are found to be driving the innovation and competition within their sectors, ensuring that the most deserving businesses get to stand in the spotlight this year.
Winning a one of our awards provides you with the evidence you need to prove, beyond doubt, that you stand apart from the competition. Enhancing your victory with visual reminders, allows for the promotion of your brand to extend even further, which in turn can attract talented new employees, looking to work for the best and new clients and customers looking to work with the best.
As mentioned, our programme is open to all businesses operating in this industry, we also encourage those companies and organisations, who facilitate the growth and development of this business community, to join the programme and allow for their efforts in making certain an equitable opportunity exists for these new and innovative endeavours to thrive.
Our awards are based solely on merit, rather than the number of votes received. Our process works to ensure that we reward parties based on their excellence in the industry, the quality of their products and their dedication to service.
So if you know of any company or organisation you feel is deserving of a nomination in this prestigious award, please leave their details in the voting form below. We can also accept self-nominations so please feel free to nominate your own organisation!
Key Dates
Entries Open:
Monday 21st September 2020
Entries Closed:
Monday 14th December 2020
Winners Announced:
March 2021
Awards Coordinator
Laura is the Awards Manager and on top of this she also manages some of our key awards programmes herself. Laura joined the business in 2014 and quickly rose through the ranks to become a most valued and respected member of the management team. Laura is highly customer-focused and is very dedicated to ensuring our products deliver real value, our service is second to none and that our processes and systems are truly customer-centric. Award nominees and winners are in very safe hands with Laura!
Our Methodology
Researching Global Health & Pharma nominees
The team work hard in identifying great businesses, driving many of the nominations themselves. The team encourage external nominations from GHP magazine subscribers, web visitors, social media following, clients and wider circulation. Nominating parties are invited to put forward either their own business or third-party companies whom they hold in high regard.
Shortlisting our nominees
All nominees are formally requested to accept their nomination, all firms and individuals are obviously free to accept or decline if they so wish. Those who formally accept are given the opportunity to submit supporting information. There is no obligation to supply such material, we have found however that many nominees value this stage, in the process, as do our research team.
Judging & evaluating nominees
Our dedicated research team assess all information presented to them. The team gather information independently from a variety of publicly accessible sources, which are assessed alongside any material supplied by a nominating party or by the nominee themselves. The research team casts their final judgment based on various criteria such as great contribution to the global healthcare or pharmaceutical industries, longevity, diversification, sustained or continued growth, significant innovations, feedback from patients and customers etc.
Reaching out to winners
Once winners are selected, they are personally notified before any public announcement is made, allowing time for any communications throughout the wider business and the coordination of marketing strategies. Unfortunately, not everyone can be a winner; however, all who take part are encouraged to come back next year. Once the press embargo is lifted, details of our award winners will be made public via the GHP website, award winners’ magazine and subscriber newsletter.
Make the most of your win
We offer a range of promotional packages and items to GHP award winners, these vary from inclusion in the free-of-charge winners’ directory, trophies, content in our magazine and content on our website.
We encourage winners to publicly announce their win independently in order to gain maximum exposure. Announcements via company websites, blogs, social media, via publicly released press releases, and through local and national press are all great ways of maximising the exposure which can be gained from such a great achievement. If you have need of further advice on how to publicise your win, please feel free to get in touch.
FAQsHow long has Global Health & Pharma been in circulation for?
Global Health & Pharma first launched in 2015 and is a global information sharing platform. Global Health and Pharma has a circulation of 260,000 and is one of the digital magazines published by AI Global Media, a UK based publisher which has published over 200 worldwide publications to its name since 2010.
Where did the nomination come from?
We at Global Health & Pharma frequently nominate candidates ourselves. We also gather votes, we accept both self-nominations and of course third-party nominations. In the interest of maintaining high response rates, we do not ask nominees to reveal their personal identity. The main ethos of our awards system is that your ability to succeed is not linked to the number of votes received. As a means of identifying spam votes and countering cyber-threats, we monitor activity to the voting form.
What happens once I agree to be on the shortlist?
As we look to keep maximum focus on relevant candidates, we ask all nominees to formally accept their position on the shortlist. This gives individuals and businesses the complete control in their decision on whether they would like to move forward with the award. There is no cost for you to be added onto the shortlist or if you go on to win. Nominees who accept will then proceed to our rigorous internal vetting procedure and are given an opportunity to present their own data which gets considered alongside the information collated by our research team. It can take up to 8 weeks for research to be completed.
Who determines the winners?
We employ an entirely impartial panel of 5 individuals to conduct all of the research to a high standard. At the helm of the panel we have a veteran academic leader with international academic and training experience. The team are well versed in research, fact-checking and mediation. We believe this method is the most efficient in determining which individuals and companies are most deserving in winning an award and has brought us much success and commendation throughout its use. Our continued use of this panel plays a key part in enforcing Global Health & Pharma’s stance that winners are not determined by popularity of votes, but by their contributions to the sector.
Is there an award dinner and if so, when is it?
We do not focus our efforts on a celebratory event. Despite being an enjoyable occasion, it doesn’t support our group’s philosophy of cost-effective marketing. As well as the lack of cost efficiency, Global Health & Pharma runs awards worldwide and we believe it would be logistically difficult for some of our winners to attend an awards ceremony. We follow the belief that any of the optional costs involved with the award would be more beneficial in a year’s worth of online marketing for a winner. All of our press announcements are made digitally, online and across our network to enforce our position as digital publishers. We aim to arm you with the tools (both digital and physical) to generate real-world value from your award win.
What happens if we go onto win?
There is a short press embargo in place where we ask you not to make any public announcements surrounding your win giving us the chance to prepare the different means of coverage we offer. This means that during this period the program manager will liaise with you to agree on the most appropriate coverage for you. Our main feature takes the form of a digital celebratory magazine, but we also offer physical trophies, wall mounted and digital certificates, web-based advertisements and press releases. The wide variety of options are aimed to make the awards tailor made to each individual firm, no matter which option you decide to go for.
Is there a cost involved?
There are no compulsory costs in accepting a nomination or winning an award with Global Health & Pharma. We do offer a variety of paid additional benefits for our winners, but these are entirely optional and are supportive to your award rather than essential. To demonstrate our commitment to no mandatory fees, all winners are offered a free of charge package. Our company policy will always remain: regardless of budget, our clients should always be able to garner the full value of the award and our seal of approval. We offer a variety of promotional opportunities to our winners. as we have an extensive network and we fully understand the wider business benefits from promoting industry awards.
Our Winners
Here you will find detail of our award winners. All featured winners are included in our digital awards magazine published here on our website and distributed to the circulation of Global Health & Pharma (GHP). All winners are included in our winners’ directory which is held here on the website. Once winners have been announced for each year you will find the full winners list below, please click on the appropriate year to view.
Our Awards Team
Phil Pearson - Global Health & Pharma Lead Researcher
Phil joined the research team at AI Global Media in 2016 and has been an integral part of Global Health & Pharma ever since. Phil is client-focussed and dedicated in ensuring each nominee is researched to ensure only the most deserving go on to win a much-coveted Global Health & Pharma award.
Laura Hunter - Global Health & Pharma
Laura joined AI Global Media in 2014 and has since proven to be a most respected, conscientious and valued team member. Steven oversees GHP's key awards programmes ensuring that all nominees and winners receive a great experience from the team and that our winners are supported in gaining maximum exposure for achieving truly great things within the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries.
Jeremy Roe - Head of Research
Jeremy is committed to each Global Health & Pharma nominee and each award winner. Jeremy has manged to build a strong team of research individuals around him, each of whom is dedicated in their role and to the clients they come into contact with. GHP’s readers, followers and web visitors can rest assured that Jeremy and his team select the best of the best as award winners.
Jane Henderson - Director
Jane is a founding member of the publishing group AI Global Media and one of three directors driving the business today. Jane is steadfast in ensuring that GHP is considerate of the professionals engaging with the publication and its website in ensuring that the team showcase only the most innovative, respected and trusted of businesses and business owners within the industry.
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