Liberty Global Announces Vendor Awards 2011
Englewood, Colorado – September 15, 2011: Liberty Global, Inc. (“Liberty Global”) (Nasdaq: LBTYA, LBTYB and LBTYK), announced the winners of its 2011 ‘Vendor Awards’ at the ‘Liberty Global Technology Summit’ in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Senior management from 80 key vendor partners attended the event together with Liberty Global’s senior management in the areas of technology, IT, product development and procurement. The company recognized its partners’ achievements in four categories: ‘Best Account Management’, ‘Best Product & Service Quality’, and ‘Best Support & After Sales’.
The award for ‘Best Innovation/Breakthrough Supplier’ went to a group of eleven partners who jointly contributed to the innovations of Horizon, Liberty Global’s next-generation TV platform: Intellicore, Samsung, NDS, Intel, Philips, Metrological, Celeno, Nagravision, ThinkAnalytics, EventIS and RedBee. Liberty Global decided to award these companies collectively due to the exceptionally strong collaboration on this breakthrough product suite.
The winners of the Liberty Global Technology Awards are selected based on input from a large number of senior executives across the entire Liberty Global group. It is the fourth time that Liberty Global has acknowledged its relationship with its partners and suppliers in this way, especially those relationships that have structurally supported the high level development and innovation of Liberty Global’s business.
“Liberty Global recognizes the outstanding work of our vendor partners. We are extremely grateful for all their efforts and their ability to collaborate as demonstrated by the development of Horizon. Our partners’ professionalism and industry knowledge enable us to keep offering our customers new and reliable products and stay ahead of the competition,” said Balan Nair, Chief Technology Officer of Liberty Global. “Our partners are an integral part of our success story”.
About Liberty Global, Inc.
Liberty Global is the leading international cable operator offering advanced video, voice and broadband internet services to connect its customers to the world of entertainment, communications and information. As of June 30, 2011, Liberty Global operated state-of-the-art networks serving 18 million customers across 14 countries principally located in Europe, Chile and Australia. Liberty Global’s operations also include significant programming businesses such as Chellomedia in Europe.
