TheLawyer.com named ‘Best Business Website of the Year’ 2005

TheLawyer.com has won Business Website of the Year in the Association of Online Publishers awards – the 'industry Oscars' for online publishers.

The Lawyer.com beat other shortlisted candidates – BrandRepublic.com, IFAonline.co.uk and AccountancyAge.com – to take the award, which was presented at a glittering ceremony at the London Hilton in Park Lane on Friday 7th October 2005.

The judges, who included senior representatives from all the major online publishers, said:

"The Lawyer.com is packed with highly relevant content for the target audience and manages to present enormous amounts of complex information in a usable way. The site's energetic commercial team has achieved impressive revenue growth of 28 per cent year on year and both commercially and editorially the site is innovative, value driven and accountable."

Helen Trim, sales and marketing director at Sift, comments:

"Centaur has made tremendous efforts to take TheLawyer.com to where it stands today. Sift provides the technology solution to Centaur and we are proud to be involved in such an achievement. The experience will help us to develop our platform and expertise further, to deliver even better solutions to publishers thinking seriously of making a commitment to the online channel."

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For further information, please contact:

Galya Holden
Web Services Director, Legal & Financial Publishing, Centaur Holdings
galya.holden@centaur.co.uk

Darren Falkingham
Marketing Manager, Sift Software
darren.falkingham@sift.com
Sift Software, 100 Victoria Street, Bristol, BS1 6HZ, United Kingdom
tel: +44 (0) 117 915 9609


EDITOR’S NOTES
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Sift’s clients include Centaur Holdings, CMPi, Institute of Physics Publishing, British Mensa, Kennel Club, British Council, The Countryside Agency, European Commission, NHS, Scottish Executive and York City Council.

Sift is a successful company recently recognised by Deloitte & Touche, the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 and New Media Age as one the fastest growing companies in the UK.