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Mobile Fun MD in IoD Director of the Year Awards Finals

Tuesday 5th July 2011

Mobile Fun MD in IoD Director of the Year Awards Finals

 Online mobile accessories retailer’s awards success continues

Birmingham, 5 July 2011. The Institute of Directors (IoD) West Midlands has announced that one of the Midlands’s most successful and influential young directors is a finalist in the national IoD Director of the Year Awards.

Mohammed Hussain, Managing Director of Mobile Fun, has been shortlisted for the Young Director of the Year Award.

Earlier this year Mohammed Hussain won the Young Director category at the IoD (West Midlands) Director of the Year Awards.

More than 40 of the UK’s most successful company directors will discover on    23 September 2011 whether they have won a prestigious award at the IoD Director of the Year Awards UK Final award ceremony, which will be held at the Lancaster Hotel London in Hyde Park, and presented by Michael Portillo.

John Philips, Regional Director of IoD West Midlands, said: “We were very impressed with Mohammed’s enthusiasm. It is wonderful to see someone who is so passionate about their product and so very focused and dedicated to staff development. Mohammed has worked very hard to achieve all he has done in his business life, at such a young age, and very much deserves this award.

It is heartening to see directors like Mohammed Hussain demonstrating their commitment to driving the economy forward, creating and preserving jobs and fostering a culture of excellence in their businesses.”

The IoD Director of the Year Awards UK Finals were created to recognise and celebrate the exceptional achievements of individuals at director level within private, public and voluntary organisations across Britain. The shortlist consists of the very best from the IoD’s regional Director of the Year awards programme, from whom the best of the best in British business will be chosen.

Mobile Fun has already received recognition this year as the Mobile News Online Retailer of the Year and in the Hitwise rankings, Mobile Fun was #6 website in the Entertainment – Mobile Phones industry for 2010.

For more information on Mobile Fun’s international websites and wide range of accessories and devices, log onto www.mobilefun.co.uk or call the sales team on 0844 249 5058.

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About Mobile Fun

Mobile Fun is the UK’s leading Internet retailer for Everything Mobile – offering a market leading range of accessories for mobile phones and other mobile devices from its www.mobilefun.co.uk website. With a product range of over 7,000 globally-sourced mobile accessories and tens of thousands of mobile downloads available on its website, Mobile Fun has successfully established a market-leading position within the competitive mobile sector.

Mobile Fun has offices in the UK, Germany and France and delivers products to 21 European countries.

Mobile Fun was ranked as the UK’s 7th Fastest Growing Technology Based Company in the Sunday Times 2006 Microsoft Tech Track 100 and awarded the ‘Online Retailer of the Year’ title at the Mobile News Awards 2011.

For more information, please contact Ranbir Sahota or Nic Corns at Vitis PR on 0121 242 8048 or ranbir@vitispr.com / nic@vitispr.com

For more information about the IoD, please contact

Alistair Tebbit, Head of Media Communications

Mob: +44 (0)7800 850 460

Email: alistair.tebbit@iod.com

Notes to editors

?       The overall winner of the 2010 IoD Director of the Year UK Final was Graham Honeyman CBE, Chief Executive Officer of Sheffield Forgemasters International.

?       At the 2010 Director of the Year Awards UK Final Sir Alan Sugar presented one of the Director of the Year Awards.

?       The IoD runs Director of the Year Awards in all of the regions across the UK. The Director of the Year Awards UK Final provides an opportunity for all of the winners from the regional awards to enter into the UK wide awards.

?       The IoD (Institute of Directors) was founded in 1903 and obtained a Royal Charter in 1906. The IoD is a non-party political organisation with over 40,000 members in the United Kingdom and overseas. Membership includes directors from right across the business spectrum. Members include CEOs of large corporations as well as entrepreneurial directors of start-up companies.

• The IoD provides an effective voice to represent the interests of its members to government and key opinion-formers at the highest levels. These include ministers, constituency MPs, Select Committee members, senior civil servants and MEPs. IoD policies and views are actively promoted to the national, regional and trade media.
• The IoD places great emphasis on director development. Chartered Director – the IoD’s flagship qualification for directors awarded under Royal Charter – is the only professional award of its kind. The IoD’s Professional Development programmes provide specific board-level and director-level training and individual career mentoring programmes for organisations and individuals in all sectors of the economy.
• In addition, the IoD offers a wide range of business services which include business centre facilities (including eleven UK regional centres [three in London, Reading, Birmingham, Cardiff, Manchester, Leeds, Nottingham, Edinburgh and Belfast] and one each in Paris and Brussels), conferences, networking events, issues-led guides and literature, as well as free access to business information and advisory services and a comprehensive Information Centre.
• For further information, visit our website: www.iod.com