Hill Cross makes award shortlist

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Hill Cross Furniture are delighted to announce we have made the Caterer and Hotelkeeper Web Awards 2011 shortlist within the Equipment Supplier category.The Caterer and Hotelkeeper Web Awards 2011 are the only web awards for the hospitality community. They recognise and reward the people and organisations responsible for developing some of the most effective hospitality websites on the internet today.

Over the last 18 months here at Hill Cross we have completely transformed our website with fresh new branding, all new content, layout updates and improved functionality alongside intelligent search facilities making the whole site more user-friendly.

Hill Cross continually evaluate, plan and carefully implement new and exciting features on a monthly basis in order to transform the selection of contract furniture to the leisure sector. Customers are our driving force and we continue to strive to give customers never-ending choice options.

Managing Director, Jake Bailey, said: “We are delighted to be shortlisted. This nomination is testimony to the hard work of Hill Cross’s staff. Our website development team work tirelessly developing content and assess its visual design, innovativeness and interactivity on a daily basis. We want to exceed expectations for operators and designers alike and in doing so our in-house web development team work closely with Stockton based web solutions company, Visualsoft.”

As a shortlisted website, this means that we are automatically put forward for overall Website of the Year, which is voted by you, our customers.

Mr Bailey continued, “to be shortlisted within the Equipment Supplier category is a huge achievement for us and we will have to beat off some stiff competition – we are all keeping our fingers crossed!”

The judging panel will be made up of web specialists and industry operators, and a full list of winners will be unveiled by Friday, 9 December, 2011.

To vote for us to win Website of the Year, then please vote for us here Please keep your fingers crossed for us.

Daniel Fountain / 23.11.2011

Editor, Hotel Designs

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