LEWISVILLE, Texas, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Parago (www.parago.com), a leading provider of innovative rewards-based incentive solutions, today announced that President and CEO Juli Spottiswood was named the Best Entrepreneur (in the Service Businesses up to 2,500 employees category) at the 6th Annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business. Parago was additionally a finalist in the Best Overall Company of the Year category.

The Stevie Awards for Women in Business honor women executives, entrepreneurs, and the companies they run - worldwide. The Stevie Awards have been hailed as the world's premier business awards.

Spottiswood has driven Parago's rapid growth and success by keeping a focus on introducing game-changing offerings to the consumer and corporate incentives industries. The award period marked an era of invigoration, excitement and exponential growth and included tremendous success with new product introductions and innovations in both technology and process.

"Our focus on innovation has been the foundation of our growth and success, first in the consumer incentives market, and now within the corporate incentives space," said Spottiswood. "It is with great pride that I accept this prestigious business recognition, which is one that I share with our partners and entire team, all of whom make Parago's success possible."

This professional award is the sixth of 2009 and caps off a successful year of business recognition for Spottiswood and Parago. Spottiswood received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2009 Award in the business services category in Southwest Area- North. Additionally, Parago was this year selected as one of the Dallas Business Journal's Best Places to Work in Dallas, received an A+ rating from the Dallas Better Business Bureau, ranked on PROMO magazine's 2009 PROMO 100 list of the top U.S. promotion agencies and saw CFO Mae Reeves selected as Dallas' CFO of the Year in the Midsized Private Companies category.

Finalists in the Stevie Awards for Women in Business were determined by the average scores of preliminary judges worldwide. Every entry with an average score of at least 7.0 out of a possible 10 was automatically designated a Finalist and was eligible to be considered in final judging, which determined the Stevie Award winner in each category. Stevie Award winners were announced at the 6th annual awards dinner on Friday, November 13 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.

Details about The Stevie Awards for Women in Business and the list of winners in all categories are available at www.stevieawards.com/women.

About Parago

Parago is the innovative provider of rewards-based incentive solutions that deploy technology to drive better results from consumers, employees and sales channels. Parago provides a full range of corporate and consumer incentive programs to Fortune 500 companies. Its offerings include incentive solutions targeted at customer acquisition and retention, employee performance improvement and recognition programs and sales and channel incentives solutions. Parago has distinguished itself in the rewards-based incentives field for more than ten years by consistent reinvention of legacy approaches, introducing 27 industry firsts and receiving three patents. For more information visit www.parago.com.

About The Stevie Awards

Stevie Awards are conferred in four programs: The American Business Awards, The International Business Awards, The Stevie Awards for Women in Business, and The Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. Learn more about The Stevie Awards at www.stevieawards.com.

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