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Best of NeoCon® 2010 Awards

The annual Best of NeoCon® awards honor new products introduced to the U.S. market since the close of NeoCon® 2009. The competition anticipates one Gold Award and one Silver Award in each category (Gold Award for the top winner; Silver Award for the next highest-scoring entry), along with Innovation Awards, Editors' Choice Awards, and one Best of Competition Award.

Eighty awards were distributed in the 21st annual Best of NeoCon® 2010 competition of contract furnishing products during NeoCon® at The Merchandise Mart, Chicago. Seven Innovation Awards, three Editors’ Choice Awards, and a Best of Competition Award also were selected among the 39 categories—ranging from Architectural Products to Workplace Technologies. View the 2010 Best of NeoCon® Award Winners

The Process:

Each year, Best of NeoCon® product entries are submitted via the Contract-Network.com Web site. Entered products must be exhibited at NeoCon® World's Trade Fair, The Merchandise Mart, Chicago that year. A judges panel of more than 40 corporate, government, and institutional facilities management executives, interior designers, and architects evaluate the entered products on the Thursday, Friday, and Saturday prior to the opening day of NeoCon®.

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The Winners:

Winners are announced on the opening day of NeoCon® at 7:30 a.m. CST at the Best of NeoCon® Awards Breakfast at the Renaissance Hotel, One West Wacker Dr. & State St. The 2010 Best of NeoCon® winners are distributed via a booklet to attendees after the breakfast, featured in upcoming Contract magazine editorial, and published at ContractDesign.com and Contract-Network.com. View the past winners in our Best of NeoCon® retrospective gallery.

New this year to the awards selection, Contract magazine, along with Designer Pages and MMPI, now offers the industry a chance to vote for their favorite Best of NeoCon® products to select a People's Choice Award winner, via an online tool called Product Wars. Learn more.