Your contact to the PLUS X AWARD

Unlike many other awards, being honoured with the PLUS X AWARD seal of approval signals the added value of the winning products in areas that matter to the end consumer. The nominated products are assessed for the added value that merits an award – the "PLUS X factor" – in the award categories Innovation, High Quality, Design, Ease of use, Functionality, Ergonomics and Ecology. The jury of the PLUS X AWARD consists exclusively of industry-neutral experts, trade journalists and market observers. The independent jury members take their decisions on the basis of their deep understanding of products and markets, and solely in the interest of the consumer.

Submitted products can be honoured in seven different categories: Innovation, High Quality, Design, Ease of use, Functionality, Ergonomics and Ecology. In principle the jury assesses each submitted product for every one of the seven categories. A product can therefore win in several award categories – the one-off licence fee is unaffected by this. In addition, submitted products have the opportunity to receive a further award alongside the PLUS X AWARD seals of approval. The product that gains the most seals of approval in its product class, and thus wins in the most award categories, is named Best Product of the Year in its product class. If a brand collects the most awards for its products in its class within one year, it can additionally be honoured as Best Brand of the Year. A very special award goes to the manufacturer honoured in the most award categories within one product group with its awarded products. It receives the Most Innovative Brand Award – the award for the most innovative brand. What counts is therefore the number of awards granted to the brand. This ensures that outstanding achievements in the categories Innovation, High Quality, Design, Ease of use, Functionality, Ergonomics and Ecology count equally towards the Most Innovative Brand Award.

Manufacturers can request the entry form for the PLUS X AWARD at any time at www.plusxaward.de, under the navigation item Participation.

The number of possible product entries is not limited. It is also possible to enter a complete product series.

No registration fee is charged for entering a single product or for taking part with a complete product series. Should the entered product or the entered product series be honoured, a licence fee is charged for the unlimited use of the PLUS X AWARD seals of approval. – For a single product the licence fee is EUR 2,940 net. – For a complete product series the licence fee is EUR 7,320.

For oversized products we ask you to arrange delivery, set-up and later collection of the products with our logistics team in advance (logistik@plusxaward.de).

Yes – please contact our logistics team (logistik@plusxaward.de) about this in good time as well.

You are of course welcome to have your submitted products collected again by a forwarding agent or transport service, either from the PLUS X AWARD or from the location of the jury session. Please inform us of the collection date in good time so that the products are ready for transport at that point.

The PLUS X AWARD seals of approval as well as the Best Product of the Year seal and the Best Brand of the Year seal may be used brand-related, internationally and without time limit for all marketing and communication activities. The Most Innovative Brand Award seal honours the innovative strength of an entire brand and may likewise be used internationally and without time limit for all marketing and communication activities – in this case also across products, and it does not have to be communicated together with the awarded products.

In principle yes. Subsequent licensing requires that the successor model also has the properties that led to the predecessor being honoured. The licence fee for subsequent licensing is EUR 970 per product. Please address your enquiry about subsequent licensing directly to the organisers of the PLUS X AWARD.

Shortly after the jury results are announced, the awarded products are added to and presented in the Hall of Fame – a website optimised for touch operation and devoted to the winning products.

As a winning manufacturer you receive, once you have accepted the award and acquired the licence to use it, a seal download by email giving access to the corresponding seals in German and English, in two different colour variants (for optimum adaptation to your point-of-sale and advertising activities) and in two different file formats: as a vector graphic (EPS) and as a JPG image file.

The licence fee, and the right of use acquired with it for the unlimited use of the PLUS X AWARD seals of approval over time, applies exclusively to manufacturers whose products won the competition after they entered them themselves. In that case payment of the licence fee is obligatory.