Among the winners this year was ShowWorks Eventz for the 2012 IIHF Challenge Cup of Asia under the Most Admired Sports Event category, Acme Events India who won the Best Corporate Event Management Company, and NeoNiche Integrated Solution for the Gartner IT Infrastructure & Data Center Summit 2012 under the Most Admired Event for Information Technology category.

"We are elated to be named the Best Corporate Event Management Company in South East Asia", said Geo Thomas, Founder and CEO, Acme Events India. "We are extremely grateful to our clients who are more than 200 of the most recognized names in the corporate space and have made this award possible for us. We also thank our partners in the industry. We pledge to continue giving our clients the most professional and process driven service, as we go forward with this new feather in our cap."

Commenting on ShowWorks winning an award for the 2012 IIHF Challenge Cup of Asia, Harjinder Singh, Managing Director, ShowWorks Eventz, said: "The CMO award is a recognition of our focussed effort to create a resource rich vertical to engage and amaze audiences in non-cricketing sports. With ice hockey and WSBoxing gaining a foothold in the Indian sporting consciousness, I see an enormous opportunity unfolding for sports entrepreneurs. ShowWorks Sporting is primed and ready to partner all such initiatives. We see a world beyond IPL, which is exciting, immersive and rewarding."

The strategic partners for the event were CMO Council and brandchannel; Pulp Strategy was the official communication partner; the supporting organisation was DMAi; media partners were India Business Journal and AD Asia; and the online media partner was Audiencematters.com.