holding thumbs for 15th January

Last last year Jump Shopping decided to host the 2006 South African E-Commerce Awards.  
 
“The 2006 South African E-Commerce Awards are run by Jump Shopping, South Africa’s leading online shopping search engine, and entry is free. Jump Shopping identified the opportunity for such an awards event, and took the opportunity to start this as part of their goal to uplift e-commerce in South Africa.

These awards have been designed to recognise and reward those companies and organisations that have demonstrated excellence through the use of the Internet, with specific emphasis on e-commerce. The Awards are open to South African businesses based in South Africa.”

I’ll save the The Autostyle Motorsport history lesson for another time.  Nominated in November and voting took place during December. This Monday the panel of judges choose the winners.   Nominations in the Automotive category is rather debatable with Autostyle being the only real ‘online store’ while the others are more of a classifieds/listing type services.

Win or lose, I’d like to think its still an accomplishment and a feather in the hat of a rather niche industry. Anything to give us and fellow car styling junkies more exposure is always a good thing!