The Award Money Can’t Buy,
Built Like It Means It.
Plaque-industry awards arrive by mail after a payment clears. This one can be lost. Its physical standard matches its earning standard: presentation-grade materials, real weight, and the winner’s name set permanently beside the full name of the award and the alliance presenting it.
Three Design Directions for the Inaugural Cycle
Each design is built from Rocky’s original UBA logo art — the gold lockup and torch emblem from the 2013 brand sheet, and the primary red-and-blue lockup — unaltered. One production standard will be chosen from these three.
The classic wall award, built heavy: dark walnut, a brushed-brass plate, and the gold alliance lockup set into a black enamel panel above the engraved citation — award name, winner, city and year, and the slogan.
The ceremony piece: a tall black-and-gold obelisk crowned with the gold torch-and-stars emblem — made to be presented in a room, photographed, and kept where customers can see it.
The set that travels: a framed certificate for the wall, paired with the round “Winner” window decal for the storefront — because the point of winning is that your next customer knows before they walk in.
Designs shown with placeholder winner text (“[Business Name]”) — each winner’s award is produced with their name, category city, and cycle year. Always the full lockup: The People’s Premier Choice Award, presented by UBA — United Business Alliance Group.
Cycles & Eligibility
Twice a Year
A spring cycle and a fall cycle. A business earns the award inside a cycle — never at a checkout page.
Eligibility
Be nominated by your customers, apply, host 30 days of anonymous shopping, and receive a passing score. Every category score is published to the business in its full report.
Re-Earned, Not Lifetime
Winners hold the award for their cycle year and can be shopped again in future cycles like everyone else. The torch gets re-earned — that’s why it stays worth earning.