Online mobile accessories retailer’s 2011 awards success continues with an Online Retail Award and finalist status for the National Business Awards and IoD Young Director of the Year
Birmingham, 2 August 2011. Mobile Fun has won an international Online Retail Award 2011 for its mobile accessories business. Its customer service, product range and speedy delivery contributed to the award win.
Additionally, the Institute of Directors (IoD) West Midlands has announced that one of the Midlands’s most successful and influential young directors, Mohammed Hussain, MD of Mobile Fun, has been shortlisted for the Young Director of the Year Award. More than 40 of the UK’s most successful company directors will discover on 23 September 2011 whether they have won a prestigious award at the IoD Director of the Year Awards UK Final award ceremony, which will be held at the Lancaster Hotel London in Hyde Park, and presented by Michael Portillo.
Mobile Fun is also shortlisted within the National Business Awards’ Small Online Business of the Year category. Over 150 of Britain’s most innovative and sustainable public and private sector businesses have been announced today as finalists of the National Business Awards in partnership with Orange. Mobile Fun will now prepare to make its Dragons Den style presentation in person before an independent, expert judging panel in September at the offices of Coutts & Co, London.
Earlier this year Mohammed Hussain won the Young Director category at the IoD (West Midlands) Director of the Year Awards. John Philips, Regional Director of IoD West Midlands, said: “We were very impressed with Mohammed’s enthusiasm. It is wonderful to see someone who is so passionate about their product and so very focused and dedicated to staff development. Mohammed has worked very hard to achieve all he has done in his business life, at such a young age, and very much deserves this award.
“It is heartening to see directors like Mohammed Hussain demonstrating their commitment to driving the economy forward, creating and preserving jobs and fostering a culture of excellence in their businesses.”
This year an awards-filled one for the company, which has already received recognition as the Mobile News Online Retailer of the Year and #6 website in the Entertainment – Mobile Phones industry for 2010, in the Hitwise rankings.
For more information on Mobile Fun’s international websites and wide range of accessories and devices, log onto www.mobilefun.co.uk or call the sales team on 0844 249 5058.
