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Шаблон:Infobox company Business Initiative Directions (BID) is a Madrid-based organisation selling what the Center for Investigative Reporting and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) have called "meaningless international awards", more widely known as "vanity awards".[1]

History and people

Jose E. Prieto is the president and CEO of Business Initiative Directions.[2] He founded the company in the US and Spain in 1986, after which it expanded to Europe.[3] The company says it is focused on the principles of the Total Quality Management movement.[3]

Awards

BID market a number of awards:

  • Century International Quality ERA Award (CQE)
  • International Arch of Europe Award
  • International Quality Crown Award
  • International Star Award for Quality (ISAQ) (one was offered to a school in Swaziland, which BID described as a "company")[4]
  • International Star for Leadership in Quality Award (ISLQ)[5][6]
  • World Quality Commitment Award[7]
  • WQC International Star Award

Criticism

The Center for Investigative Reporting and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) have called the awards "meaningless".[1]

Sri Lanka's Honorary Consul in Spain said that BID was possibly a scam company.[8] The Spanish Consulate in Mumbai stated BID was a fraudulent company.[8][9]

Botswana's Consumer Watchdog reported that the "so-called 'World Quality Commitment Convention', run by 'Business Initiative Directions' is remarkably similar to the equally ridiculous Bizz Awards scam we exposed some months ago."[10]

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