BIFA Awards
“ It’s been brilliant for our profile. Customers old and new have taken note of it and obviously seen the wider way that we operate as a Denholm Good Logistics, winner of the Ocean Services Award 2024 company – Tom Reid, “ it is a little bit of hard work to get there and get your entry submitted, but it’s well worth it. It’s an opportunity really to showcase your business – Sarah Franklin, John Pipe International, winner of the Specialist Services Award 2024
Group, winner of the Apprentice of the Year Award 2024 How has winning a BIFA Award impacted your business/career? “It’s been brilliant for our profile. Customers old and new have taken note of it and obviously seen the wider way that we operate as a company. I think that’s appealed to a lot of customers, both existing and, then obviously, new customers that are looking to work with us.” – Tom Reid, Denholm Good Logistics, winner of the Ocean Services Award 2024 “And it also helped me to showcase this to DHL as well, look what the younger generation can do. So, continue with the graduate schemes and the apprentices because it can go far.” – Thomas Bedocs, DHL Global Forwarding, winner of the Young Freight Forwarder of the Year Award 2024 What would you say to a BIFA Member who is thinking of entering? “Definitely do it. Yes, it is a little bit of hard work to get there and get your entry submitted, but it’s well worth it. It’s an opportunity really to
How to enter Over the years we have simplified the entry process and now all you need to do is visit How To Enter - BIFA Awards, read the category notes and download the relevant entry form(s). You will need one entry form per category entered. Make sure that you send your completed submission to bifaevents@bifa.org before 11am on Wednesday 7 October 2026. Why enter? Last year, ahead of the 2025 competition, BIFA TV spoke to some of the 2024 winners and this is what they had to say: What inspired you to enter the BIFA Freight Service Awards? “It felt like the right time and a good opportunity to showcase our services and our success as well as an opportunity to fully recognise the work that goes on day in, day out, by the European road freight team who are fully committed to going the extra mile each and every day to provide our clients with an exceptional service.” – Rebecca Sanderson, Cargo Overseas, winner of the European Logistics Award 2024 Do you have any top tips for members completing their entries? “The way that I decided to do it was to go out to our customers to get testimonials from them and also some client feedback by way of a
questionnaire that they could reply to. That then gave us information that we could put into meaningful statistics so we could benchmark the metrics against successes.” Specialist Services Award 2024 “I think just be honest with what you’ve done. Like, if you think you’ve done what it takes to win, you know, that should be enough. So, just put it there and just try to go into as much detail as you can and put the best piece of work you can out there for them.” – Joseph Freestone, Woodland – Sarah Franklin, John Pipe International, winner of the
showcase your business.” – Sarah Franklin, John Pipe International, winner of the
Specialist Services Award 2024 BIFA TV has also spoken with winners from last year, you can see their interviews here.
CATEGORY SPONSORS BIFA recognises the contribution of the category sponsors who support the awards and give up their time to select the winner of each category. Thank you
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