WINNERS IP TOP Awards 99 ‘Zoom’, ‘SwissGuide’ and ‘Peter Rabbit’

Zurich, 18 November 1999
The IP TOP Awards 99 winners are ‘Zoom’, ‘SwissGuide’ and ‘The Official Peter Rabbit Website’. On the evening of 18 November the Awards were handed out by Andy Maerz, chairman of the jury and Head of New Media at Ringier, sponsor of the awards. The CC-TOP Award for the Best Corporate Communications Website was given to ‘Novo.dk’ by Martin Radelfinger, managing director of Homepage AG. The award ceremony took place in the night club ‘Jail’ in Zurich.

Choosing the winners was a very difficult job. The judges used special decision software to make it easier. ‘Comparing websites with different targets and in different formats took a lot of time,’ said one of the judges. But eventually four of these websites emerged as the best in European online publishing.

About Zoom
Zoom.no is Norway’s leading comparison-shopping service. It provides the consumer with a detailed list of over 700 shops on the Internet. It compares prices and products in the following categories: music, books, computers, cars & Cellphones, and provides a list of the best value options.

About Swissguide
Swissguide is an Internet Directory containing 78'000 Swiss Homepages and classifieds. The directory provides contact details and a map to a company searched for. The directory is complemented with news, weather, useful links, email-search, cars, books, and more. Visitors are also able to personalize the pages.

About The Official Peter Rabbit Website
www.peterrabbit.com offers a wealth of information for children, parents, grandparents, enthusiasts and anyone interested in the works and life of Beatrix Potter, one of the world's most celebrated authors and illustrators.

About Novo
The Novo.dk website is the corporate website of Novo Nordisk. The website is also used to publish the company’s annual and social reports. Novo Nordisk's first social report was published online and offline the same day. The Novo Nordisk's Annual Report 1998 was published online - in full - 10 days before the printed edition.

About IP TOP
As a strategic summit for new media publishers, 'Interactive Publishing' together with Ringier and the web publication Europemedia.com, in 1998 established a new and prestigious award for European interactive publishing. The award was presented for the first time during the 5th Interactive Publishing conference (11 - 13 November 1998, Zurich) in the presence of the key players in the European interactive publishing industry. The winners of IP Top ‘98 were The Irish Times for its excellent online news site, City Online from the Netherlands for its special community features and Swedish surprise 'Darling' for its irreverence and creativity.

About Interactive Publishing
The Interactive Publishing Network is the organiser of the annual Interactive Publishing conference, which takes place in Zurich and gathers top executives from all over Europe and the US. In 1998 the conference attracted over 300 participants. Strategists, innovators and net-workers from the industry will gather at "Interactive Publishing". The conference holds a prestigious position in the media world and its brand is widely recognized in both Europe and North America. The brand stands for quality, reliability, trust, independence, and offers the greatest networking opportunity in the online publishing business. This years conference will be held from 17-19 November in Zurich.

Sponsors:
Ringier
Europemedia.com
Homepage AG

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