Awards honour companies that successfully use the Voice of the Customer to drive business results
TORONTO, May 13, 2015 /CNW/ - AskingCanadians, one of Canada's leading online data collection companies, and Corby Spirit and Wine Ltd., a leading Canadian marketer of spirits and imported wines, have been jointly awarded a 2015 Confirmit ACE (Achievement in Customer Excellence) Award.
The Confirmit ACE Awards celebrate outstanding achievement in Voice of the Customer (VOC) programs and recognize companies that have established outstanding initiatives to measure customer feedback and to act upon those insights to increase satisfaction, improve operational efficiencies, and to enhance revenue growth.
AskingCanadians and Corby were selected among the recipients of this year's awards in recognition of a customer feedback survey tool created within the AskingCanadians platform called The Corby Panel. The initiative was established in an effort to help Corby better target and directly dialogue with consumers without having to create their own branded research panel and to provide Corby with access to as many Canadians as possible based upon their proprietary segmentation model.
To date, Corby has used the panel to pre-test new products, packaging changes, campaigns, taglines, etc. and has had the ability to course-correct as needed based on panellist feedback.
"Receiving a Confirmit ACE Award highlights our commitment to working with clients like Corby Spirit and Wine Ltd. to help them gain insights and deliver the best customer experience possible," said Raj Manocha, Senior Vice President of AskingCanadians. "We're excited to share this award with Corby and look forward to continuing to help them find innovative new ways to uncover valuable customer insights to drive their business."
"We are delighted to receive a Confirmit ACE Award, and are honoured by this testament to our customer-focused business practices," says Corby CEO Patrick O'Driscoll. "The Corby Panel is an invaluable tool used by multiple teams for diverse projects, and it empowers us to keep our finger on the pulse of Canadians. Our customers provide us with crucial feedback that allows us to offer some of the most innovative, successful, and unique products on the market today."
"Corby Spirit and Wine Ltd., with the support of AskingCanadians, has proven to be a true leader in customer excellence. Its comprehensive program ensures that the Voice of the Customer is not just part of the business process, but built into the fabric of the company to improve business results and drive change," said Henning Hansen, President and CEO of Confirmit. "We are proud that Corby and AskingCanadians work with Confirmit for its customer experience initiatives."
About the Confirmit ACE Awards
The ACE (Achievement in Customer Excellence) Awards program was established in 2005 to recognize outstanding achievement in customer experience. Receiving a Confirmit ACE Award is a distinct honor that demonstrates both rigorous application of customer feedback processes and outstanding performance as measured by those processes. All Confirmit customers are eligible for Confirmit ACE Awards for their company, business units, or segments of a business. To be eligible for a 2015 Confirmit ACE Award, your organization must have conducted one or more customer satisfaction surveys between January 1 and December 31, 2014.
About AskingCanadians
AskingCanadians, a Delvinia company, is an online data collection firm with access to a research community of 600,000 Canadians who have opted-in to participate in online surveys that significantly influence today's leading brands. Established in 2005, we own and manage the AskingCanadians online research community and its French counterpart Qu'en pensez vous. AskingCanadians is dedicated to enabling market researchers to quickly gather and deliver high quality information from Canadian consumers. AskingCanadians and Qu'en pensez vous are built through incentive partnerships with Aeroplan, Hudson's Bay Rewards, Walmart and PETRO-POINTS. The result is an average response rate that eclipses the industry. For more information, please visit corporate.askingcanadians.com.
About Corby Spirit and Wine Limited
Corby Spirit and Wine Limited is a leading Canadian marketer of spirits and imported wines. Corby's portfolio of owned-brands includes some of the most renowned brands in Canada, including J.P. Wiser's® Canadian whisky, Lamb's® rum, Polar Ice® vodka and McGuinness® liqueurs. Through its affiliation with Pernod Ricard S.A., Corby also represents leading international brands such as ABSOLUT® vodka, Chivas Regal®, The Glenlivet® and Ballantine's® Scotch whiskies, Jameson® Irish whiskey, Beefeater® gin, Malibu® rum, Kahlúa® liqueur, Mumm® champagne, and Jacob's Creek®, Wyndham Estate®, Stoneleigh®, Campo Viejo®, Graffigna®, and Kenwood® wines.
About Confirmit
Confirmit is the world's leading SaaS vendor for multichannel Voice of the Customer, Employee Feedback, and Market Research solutions. The company has offices in Oslo (headquarters), Chengdu, Cologne, Grimstad, London, Moscow, New York, San Francisco, Vancouver, and Yaroslavl. Confirmit's software is also distributed through partner resellers in Madrid, Milan, Salvador, Sydney, and Tokyo. Confirmit powers Global 5000 companies and Market Research agencies worldwide with a wide range of software products for feedback / data collection, panel management, data processing, analysis, and reporting. Customers include Aurora, British Airways, Cross-Tab, Dow Chemical, GfK, GlaxoSmithKline, GMO Research, JTN Research, Keep Factor, Morehead Associates, Nielsen, Research Now, Swisscom, and The Wellcome Trust. Visit www.confirmit.com for more information.
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