Just before you all bugger off for the weekend, a quick reminder that as well as the glamorous Nexus One competition, we’ve got some other ongoing reader interaction that is just as sexy. Well, almost. Well, probably nowhere near.

Anyway, we’re after your nominations for our humble little Best Company In Britain 2009 vote-a-thon, which launches soon. It’s a sweet-smelling counterpart to our fierce, snarling Worst Company In Britain 2009 contest that almost led to civil war around these parts.

So, in the little comments box below, tell us the company who gave you the deepest satisfaction over the past twelve months and a bit and why. Then, early next week, we’ll kick another (shorter, probably) bout of voting. Anyone for Royal Mail? Paypal? eBay? No…?

Right you ‘orrible lot. Ever since we ran our Worst Company in Britain 2009 competition, the pungent stench of negativity around these parts has been lodged in our nostrils like a fat crow in a robin’s nest. We reckon it’s time to think nice thoughts for a bit instead.

So, while the year gone by is still fresh in your memory and as a potential spoiler to the Oscars ™, we’re looking for your nominations for the Best Company In Britain 2009. We’re not expecting the strength of feeling that its ‘Worst’ equivalent provoked from you all but if there’s a company out there that consistently delivers the goods for you (literally as well as figuratively) we want to know who they are.

Stick their name and your reasons for nominating them in the comments box below and after the weekend, we’ll put it to a vote and see who comes out on top. And (blushes) yes, you CAN nominate HotUKDeals and Bitterwallet if you want to…

The nominations are closed and the voting starts soon for Bitterwallet’s Worst Company Of 2009 competition.

It’ll grip you between now and the end of the year and will hopefully stop you from thinking about Kim Woodburn’s infernal jungle boobies…

A few days ago, we launched our Worst UK Company of 2009 award, urging you to get your nominations in for the brands that have had you tearing your hair out over the past 12 months. So here’s a reminder that we’re still looking for your suggestions.

There’s countless reasons why you might nominate a company – rotten customer service, cack-headed pricing, shoddy packaging or delivery… maybe you just don’t like their logo.

Whoever it is who has got your goat, let us know (preferably telling us why as well) and we’ll cull the nominations down to a more manageable list shortly. Then, the voting will commence.

By the end of the year, we’ll have found a worthy successor to 2008’s winner, Setanta, who ‘tragically’ went tits-up a few months later.

Right, time for you lot to tell us lot just who you think the Worst UK Company of 2009 has been.

If you remember, last year’s vote was won at a canter by Setanta (ooh, that rhymed!) – wonder whatever became of them…?

Over the coming weeks, we’ll carefully sift through your suggestions and come up with a definitive shortlist. Then, we’ll play the companies off against each other in a head-to-head public vote.

Around about Christmas time, we should have a new holder of the golden turd (pictured right) that we presented to Setanta at the end of 2008 – wonder what became of that…

Come on then, let’s have your suggestions – any company operating in the UK is fair game, and if you could tart up your nominations with the reason why they’ve gotten your goat so much this year, that would be even better.

We’ll start the ball rolling. Halifax Bank Of Scotland, for charging customers a daily fee just for having an overdraft. Wankers.