Three cheers for channels!

In an effort to promote excellence in the channel community, the DQ Week
Mumbai honoured outstand-ing channel partners in different categories. In its
second year, the DQ Week Award makes for a closely contested, keenly sought
accolade in the channel community. Instituted in 2003, adjudged by an eminent
industry panel these Awards recognize the contribution of channel partners
across 16 cities of West India including Mumbai.

Here is a low down on who won what:

q The Best Channel
Partner Award in Amravati and Aurangabad went to Golden Systems and Cyber
Peripherals respec-tively while Rhythm Electronics bagged it for Baroda.

q Navjeen Computers
and Veetrag Computers were awarded as Best Channel Partners for Jalgaon and
Kolhapur regions respectively.

q For Gujarat
upcountry, the Best Channel Partner Award went to Advance Computers and Compu
Garage while Amay Computers and Datatro-nics Systems bagged the Best Channel
Partner Award from Mazgaon and Nagpur respectively.

q Omega Infocom bagged
the Best Channel Partner Award for Nashik.

q The other winners in
the Best Channel Award category include Apex Computers and Engi-neering Services
of Panjim, Netlink Infocom of Rajkot, Valsons Com-puter of Surat, Keshav
Computers of Thane and Gujral Infotech of Vashi.

q The Best Retailer
and Best System Integrator (SI) Award for Ahmed-abad went to Care office
Equipments and Sai Infosystems respectively while Damson Techno-logies bagged
the Best Reseller Award. The Best Sub-Distributor Award went to Shani
Peri-pherals and Silverline Infocom.

q From Pune region,
the Best Retailer Award went to Compu City while Best SI and Best Reseller Award
went to CITPL and GV Sales respectively. The joint winners for Best Sub
Distributor Award were Data Care Corporation and Karan Solutions.

q In the Mumbai
region, the Most Promising Retailer Award went to Vijay Sales and the Runner-up
in this cate-gory was Gigahertz.

q The Best Retailer
Award went to Info City, while Softcell Technologies bagged the Best Soft-ware
Solution Provider Award and the Best Retailer Runner-up SI was Kaybee Infotech.
Allied Digital Services and Ash-tech Infotech were join-tly named as Best SI.
The Best Reseller Award went to Radiant Technologies while the Runner-up in this
category was Ortek Computers.

q The Most Promising
Sub-Distributor was Active Infocom and the Runner-up was Best IT World. The
Award for the Best Sub Distributor went to Arihant Computers.