This year’s Industry Choice Awards (ICA), sponsored by Island Sun Times (IST), made dozens of indoor tanning product and service providers extremely happy. Winners were named in almost 30 categories, from lamps to lotions. Only tanning salon professionals were eligible to vote.
Among the winners was our own TanToday.com, which won for “Favorite Discussion Board" for the second year in a row. Karen Butler, the forum’s community manager, acknowledges that much of the thanks goes to the forum's early pioneers. "As society becomes increasingly mobile, it gets easier for salon professionals to interact online. And yet, the discussion boards were started more than a decade ago by people who had the drive and vision to focus on the benefits of collaboration ... rather than obsessing about the perils of competition. Our ongoing goal is to continue to be that online gathering place where salon professionals at all stages of their career can unite to help keep our industry at its best. Many thanks to our veteran salon owners and moderator team for sharing their expertise, as well as to our newer members, who often bring unbridled enthusiasm (and their fare share of questions and ideas) to the table. We also appreciate our corporate sponsors who help make the venue a reality."
Here’s the complete list of winners:
Industry Online
Favorite Discussion Board – TanToday.com
Favorite Website – Supre Tan
Salon Support
Best Customer Service – Four Seasons
Favorite Training Program – New Sunshine
Favorite Distributor – Four Seasons
Salon Operation
Favorite Product/Service – Text Ripple
Sunless Systems
Favorite Booth – Sunless Inc., VersaSpa
Favorite Airbrush – Norvell Z3000
Favorite Solution – Norvell Amber Sun Premium
Salon Software
Overall Favorite Program – Helios
Tanning Systems
Favorite High-Pressure Sunbed – Ergoline Open Sun 1050
Favorite Low-Pressure Stand-Up – Ergoline Sunrise 480
Favorite High-Pressure Stand-Up – TanAmerica X2v HP by Heartland
Favorite Low-Pressure Sunbed – Ergoline Sun Angel
Product Marketing
Favorite Campaign – Devoted Creations
Accessories
Favorite Eye Protection – Wink-Ease
Favorite Salon Accessory – Wink-Ease
Sunlamps
Favorite Sunlamp, Low-Pressure > 121W – CosmoLux 9K90
Favorite HP Sunlamp – Supra Technologies
Favorite Sunlamp, Low-Pressure < 120W – JK-Light Genesis 120
Lotion
Overall Favorite Lotion – Trust Fund Baby by Devoted Creations
Favorite Package Design – Obsidian by Designer Skin
Favorite Scent – Ravish Me by Designer Skin
Favorite Bronzer – Obsidian by Designer Skin
Favorite Tingle Product – Bombshell by Designer Skin
Favorite Non-Tingle – JWoww Black Bronzer by Australian Gold
Favorite Moisturizer – Hempz by Supre Tan
Industry Contribution
Person of the Year 2011 – Max Recone, MR International
Lifetime Achievement – Rick Norvell, Norvell Skin Solutions
Congratulations to all of this year’s winners, and special thanks to IST and all the salon owners who took the time to cast their votes.
