Categories announced for the BikeBiz Awards 2024

The prestigious BikeBiz Awards in association with Push return for 2024, as we take the opportunity to celebrate another year of innovation and inspiration in the bike trade. 

Each year the BikeBiz Awards strive to recognise the superstars in this industry, from retailers, to bike brands, and advocacy champions. 

This year we will be bringing you 15 awards across five categories in the cycling and micromobility sectors. 

This year sees the Awards return in-person for the first time since 2019, with the winners announced at a special event on Thursday, October 31, at The Button Factory in Birmingham.

We will also be bringing back the judging panel, reintroduced in 2022, to help decide the winners in most categories. 

Last year, our 14 judges from across various corners of the bike trade helped decide the winners, bringing their expert eye to the awards. 

We are still on the hunt for judges for the 2024 awards – email daniel.blackham@biz-media.co.uk to find out more. 

You can see all the winners from the 2023 awards here.

Key dates

Entries and nominations: Open from Monday, June 17, close at midnight on Friday July 26. 

Voting: Opens Friday, August 2, closes at midnight Friday, September 13.

Winners: Announced at The Button Factory in Birmingham on Thursday, October 31.

How it works 

Entries and nominations 

Members of the cycling trade community will be invited to put themselves in the running for one of our prestigious awards using an online form, while prosumers can also nominate their favourite retailers, brands or individuals in any relevant categories.

Entries and nominations will be open from June 17, and run until midnight on July 26. 

The BikeBiz team will then review every entry and nomination to ensure the necessary criteria is met, in order to then compile a shortlist for each award. 

Shortlists will then be announced on August 2, kickstarting the voting process. 

Voting

This year, voting will be carried out either by our expert judging panel or by a wider vote open to the whole cycling industry, depending on the category (see below for the full list of awards and the voting procedure in each).  

Most awards, including our brands of the year, and distributors of the year, will be decided by our judging panel, who will offer years of combined experience in the cycling industry to select the winners.

Our judges will come from a broad range of backgrounds in the industry, including retailers, distributors, and advocacy groups. 

In order to make judging fair, judges will have to abstain from any award category that may relate to their own organisation, to avoid any conflicts of interest – for example, retailer judges will not be permitted to vote in the retailer category of awards. 

Judges will vote using their own online form, selecting their preferred winner, and offering up a reason for their selection. 

In other categories, including Woman of the Year, and IBD of the Year, voting will be open to the wider cycling trade through an online voting form. 

Voting will be open from Friday, August 2, until midnight on Friday, September 13. After the closure, the BikeBiz team will collate all the results, ready for the big event. 

The winners  

The winners will be announced at a special event on Thursday, October 31, at The Button Factory in Birmingham.

These will be shared online at BikeBiz.com and across our social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram), followed by a major feature in the December edition of BikeBiz magazine. 

The categories 

Brands 

Bike Brand of the Year – Nominations open to all bike brands, winner decided by judging panel 

P&A Brand of the Year – Nominations open to all P&A brands, winner decided by judging panel

Newcomer of the Year  – Nominations open to any cycling business which started operating on or after January 1, 2023, winner decided by judging panel

Distributors 

Bike Distributor of the Year  – Nominations open to all bike distributors , winner decided by judging panel 

P&A Distributor of the Year  – Nominations open to all P&A distributors, winner decided by judging panel 

Specialist Distributor of the Year  – Nominations open to any distributor specialising in a particular area of the market, e.g. e-bikes, BMX, MTB, triathlon, winner decided by judging panel 

Retailers, in association with V12 Retail Finance

IBD of the Year – Nominations open to independently-run bricks and mortar retailers with a maximum of three locations, winner decided by voting open to whole cycle industry 

Omnichannel Retailer of the Year – Nominations open to any omnichannel cycling retailers, winner decided by judging panel 

Best Retailer Services – Nominations open to any company providing services to benefit cycle industry members, eg training, EPOS, bike-fitting software, winner decided by judging panel 

Inclusivity 

Woman of the Year – Nominations open to any woman who has made a marked impact in the cycle industry over the last year, winner decided by voting open to whole cycle industry

Cycle Advocacy Award, in association with Re-Cycle – Nominations open to any company advocating cycling throughout the UK to benefit the cycle industry members, e.g. promoting funding schemes, cycling education, infrastructure campaigning, winner decided by judging panel

Diversity Champion – A special award given to a person or organisation who has made a significant impact on diversity and inclusion in the cycling industry,  winner decided by the BikeBiz team

Micromobility 

Best Shared Transport Provider – Nominations open to any UK e-bike or e-scooter shared transport scheme operator, winner decided by judging panel 

Micromobility Retailer of the Year – Nominations open to any specialist e-bike or e-scooter retailer, winner decided by judging panel    

Micromobility Brand of the Year  – Nominations open to any micromobility brand, winner decided to judging panel

For more information about sponsorship opportunities for the BikeBiz Awards 2024, in association with Push, contact Richard Setters – richard.setters@biz-media.co.uk