Bigmouthmedia finalists in the National Business Awards for the second year running

Bigmouthmedia, Europe's largest search agency, is a double finalist in the National Business Awards for Scotland for the second year running. The search agency has been short listed for the Marketing Strategy of the Year Award, along with bigmouthmedia CEO and founder Steve Leach who has been short listed for Entrepreneur of the Year.

Last year's National Business Awards for Scotland ceremony saw bigmouthmedia take home the awards for The AXA Small to Medium Business of the Year, as well as The LogicaCMG Growth Strategy of the Year Award.

Speaking after the announcement, bigmouthmedia MD Lyndsay Menzies commented: "To be double finalists for the second year running is a great testament to our team. The National Business Awards are important for any Scottish business and to be involved again is very exciting."

This year has seen bigmouthmedia's award winning streak continue with recent wins including ‘Best Use of Search Optimisation/Search Marketing’ with client Superbreak – the online travel company – at the Technology for Marketing and Advertising Awards in February 2007, plus awards at the inaugural Fast Growth Business Awards and Dadi Awards. Bigmouthmedia were also named in the Top 50 FT UK Workplaces for 2007.

Notes to Editor:

About bigmouthmedia and GlobalMedia:

Bigmouthmedia, part of the GlobalMedia Group is a leading digital marketing agency with 11 locations in the UK, Mainland Europe and the USA. Servicing over 300 clients across all sectors, ranging from SME’s to major global brands, bigmouthmedia offers a range of search engine marketing services leveraged to offer its clients maximum return for their online investment.

Founded in 1997, bigmouthmedia has offices in Edinburgh, Manchester, London and New York, Stockholm and Oslo and counts among its clients British Airways, Barclays, Tesco and Hilton.

Parent company GlobalMedia was founded in Manchester in 1996 and has a further 5 offices in Hamburg, Milan, Munich, Paris and Seoul and clients including AOL and lastminute.com.

Bigmouthmedia was named the AXA Small to Medium Business of the Year at the 2006 National Business Awards, with comments from the judges including: “Successful on a global scale. Impressive, knowledgeable” and “A real market leading service performed exceptionally well."

The National Business Awards for Scotland

The National Business Awards for Scotland recognises and rewards excellence, innovation and success. Uniquely open to organisations of all sizes and from any industry sector – public or private, the programme allows the best businesses to showcase their achievements and benchmark their successes.

The total entry in the 2006 event had a combined turnover of £22billion, generated profits of £8.3billion (which accounts for around 30 per cent of Scotland’s GDP) and employed over 300,000 people.

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