{"id":81939,"date":"2018-07-27T12:45:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T01:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=81939"},"modified":"2018-07-27T17:05:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T06:05:11","slug":"orias-booktopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2018\/07\/27\/orias-booktopia\/","title":{"rendered":"A Great Result for Booktopia at the ORIAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Booktopia\u00a0has been voted Best Pureplay Online Retailer at the 2018 Online Retailer Industry Awards\u00a0(ORIAS).<\/p>\n<p>This year, the other nominees for\u00a0Best Pureplay Online Retailer were Catch, HelloFresh, Vinomofo, Tinyme and Glamcorner. Booktopia has been a finalist in the ORIAS every year since 2013. To win this year is indeed a superb result!<\/p>\n<p>In addition to this Tony Nash, CEO of Booktopia, has won the Industry Recognition Award. In his acceptance speech Tony expressed his gratitude, thanking his family and the whole Booktopia team for giving him the\u00a0opportunity to work in his dream job.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-81937 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/orias-banner.png\" alt=\"ORIAS\" width=\"665\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;On behalf of Booktopia I accept this huge acknowledgement of our journey thus far and look forward to making many more years of Australian retail history with all of you.&#8221; &#8211; Tony Nash<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This year marks the ninth annual ORIAS and the winners were announced last night at an awards gala at the ICC Sydney Grand Ballroom.<\/p>\n<p>With 800 guests in attendance,\u00a0awards were presented across 16 categories which celebrate the excellence of Australia&#8217;s vibrant and innovative online retailing visionaries. It is a great\u00a0honour to be nominated and a remarkable accomplishment to win.<\/p>\n<p>Booktopia was also nominated for the Best Mobile Commerce Site\/Application Award. And Wayne Baskin, Deputy CEO and CTO, of Booktopia, was one of the other nominees for the Industry Recognition award. With 4 nominations and 2 wins, Booktopians have much to celebrate!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 300px; min-width: 300px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BlsZmMyAgNW\/\" data-instgrm-version=\"9\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50.0% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;\"><a style=\"color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BlsZmMyAgNW\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Winners of ORIAS Best Pureplay Retailer for 2018!! Thanks to our wonderful team and super awesome customers!! \ud83c\udf96\ufe0f\ud83c\udfc6\ud83c\udf89<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\">A post shared by <a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/booktopiabooks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Booktopia<\/a> (@booktopiabooks) on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2018-07-26T11:48:05+00:00\">Jul 26, 2018 at 4:48am PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async defer src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cTo be considered the best in the land at what we do is a real honour and great recognition of our long term commitment to the book industry and to our customers.\u201d \u2013 Tony Nash<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A big congratulation goes out to the Booktopia team and all the awesome Booktopia customers who made this possible!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Booktopia\u00a0has been voted Best Pureplay Online Retailer at the 2018 Online Retailer Industry Awards\u00a0(ORIAS). This year, the other nominees for\u00a0Best Pureplay Online Retailer were Catch, HelloFresh, Vinomofo, Tinyme and Glamcorner. Booktopia has been a finalist in the ORIAS every year since 2013. To win this year is indeed a superb result! In addition to this Tony Nash, CEO of Booktopia, has won the Industry Recognition Award. In his acceptance speech Tony expressed his gratitude, thanking his family and the whole Booktopia team for giving him the\u00a0opportunity to work in his dream job. &#8220;On behalf of Booktopia I accept this huge acknowledgement of our journey thus far and look forward to making many more years of Australian retail history with all of you.&#8221; &#8211; Tony Nash This year marks the ninth annual ORIAS and the winners were announced last night at an awards gala at the ICC Sydney Grand Ballroom. With 800 guests in attendance,\u00a0awards were presented across 16 categories which celebrate the excellence of Australia&#8217;s vibrant and innovative online retailing visionaries. It is a great\u00a0honour to be nominated and a remarkable accomplishment to win. Booktopia was also nominated for the Best Mobile Commerce Site\/Application Award. 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