Online Business of the Year     Name: Andrew Crawford Job title: CEO Company name: The Book Depository Ltd Address: Goodridge Business Park, Gloucester  GL2 5EB Telephone number: 01452 307 905 Website: www.bookdepository.co.uk The Book Depository, Online Business of the Year and Retailer of the Year L-R Stuart Feton, Andrew Crawford, Adrienne Lawler, Ivan Croxford (BT) Judges’ Comments: With his business, The Book Depository, Andrew Crawford identified that much sought after ‘gap in a market’ and executed the business plan with aplomb. Judges couldn’t fail to be impressed by Crawford’s ability to manoeuvre such market share in a sector seemingly cornered by his former employer Amazon through his innovative approach to sell the ‘longtail’, making all books available for all. Most of all though, judges felt it was a business that simply couldn’t have succeeded sourcing and selling globally so prolifically, and within just three years, without such intelligent use of the internet. A brilliant, pure online business.
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