Dealer of the Year
Which company will be SDM’s 2024 Dealer of the Year? Maybe Yours!
Submission Deadline: July 1, 2024
The SDM Dealer of the Year award program is the magazine’s highest honor, bestowed upon one security company each year since 1980. Here’s your chance to enter and compete among the finest businesses in the electronic security industry. The award is open to all companies in the security industry, regardless of size or market niche.
If your firm meets or exceeds the preliminary criteria, then complete the form below and return it to SDM. You may use this form to nominate your own company or another systems integrator.
To be considered as an SDM Dealer of the Year candidate, your company must:
- Have been in business at least three years as of May 31, 2024.
- Be in the business of selling and installing electronic security and related systems to residential and/or non-residential markets.
- Derive more than 50 percent of its revenue from the sale, lease, installation, service, and/or monitoring of these systems.
HOW TO APPLY
Applying for SDM’s Dealer of the Year Award is a two-part process.
- Companies nominating themselves or nominating others must complete and return the online nomination form by July 1, 2024.
- Companies meeting the basic qualifications outlined in the nomination form will receive the formal application from SDM and need to return it by the specified deadline.
Once all of the applications have been received, SDM’s editorial staff reviews and scores them individually, then meets to compare scores and determine a winner. The winner is notified and a photo shoot and interview times are scheduled. The formal announcement and a feature article profiling the winning SDM Dealer of the Year will be published in SDM’s December 2024 issue.