The Bookseller.com

2nd December 2008

Award success for Book Depository

31.10.07 Victoria Arnstein

The Book Depository (TBD) has won two awards recognising its entrepreneurship. The company scooped both the Online Business of the Year award and the Retailer of the Year Award at the Startups Awards, part of the Startups.co.uk website.

Presenting the awards at the Royal Garden Hotel in Kensington, Adrienne Lawler from Sky News, said that the judges felt TBD "had identified a gap in the market and executed its business plan with total aplomb". She added that the company, which was founded in 2004, had showed "courage and self-belief especially when they came from Amazon as these guys have done".

Both Andrew Crawford TBF founder and Mark Thwaite managing editor had previously worked at Amazon before starting the online bookselling company. TBD also narrowly missed out on the overall prize of NatWest Startup Business of the Year, the winner of which was awarded a £5,000 prize, but did make it into the final four companies short-listed for the award.

"I think it ratifies us as the fastest growing bookseller in Europe," Crawford said after collecting the awards. "It is also fantastic for our staff who have been working so hard for these last three years."

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