SME Coventry & Warwickshire Business Award 2018 | Events and PR |

Welcome to the SME Coventry and Warwickshire Business Awards, an excellent opportunity to support and share in our vision to raise the profile of industrious, hardworking and enterprising SMEs in the county of Coventry and Warwickshire.

Business awards are a sought after accolade of achievement, a veritable endorsement of success in business which offers exceptional marketing and PR opportunities as well as increasing your kudos and standing in the eyes of your peers and your customers. Of course, it feels pretty wonderful too!

Categories:

WCG Apprenticeships Apprentice of the Year Award
• An Apprentice is defined as a person who is learning a trade from a skilled employer, having agreed to work for a fixed period.

Regus Best New Business Award
• This award will got to the business that can show outstanding initiative, boldness and imagination in the enterprise, as well as sound management practices. Entrants to this award will be expected ro demonstrate sustainable growth combined with a degree of commercial success that is exceptional for the size of the business.

Conventry & Warwickshire Business Festival Business Innovation Award
• Entrants will be asked to show how the business goes about encouraging creativity and new thinking and how knowledfe or technology play an important part in developing the business. You will be asked to focus on a particular example of a successful change implemented in the last two years. Evidence of success will help your case- what your criteria were and how the business has benefited financially, in market position, or in terms of growing or securing employment.

FANUC UK Business of the Year Award Less than 50 Employees
• This award will go to the business that can show outstanding initiative, boldness and imagination in the enterprise, as well as sound management practices. Entrants to this award will be expected to demonstrate sustainable growth combined with a degree of commercial success that is exceptional for the size of the business.

Business of the Year Award More than 50 Employees
• This award will go to the business that can show outstanding initiative, boldness and imagination in the enterprise, as well as sound management practices. Entrants to this award will be expected to demonstrate sustainable growth combined with a degree of commercial success that is exceptional for the size of the business.

FM World Community Business of the Year Award
• You will already be a successful business in your own right. The judges will need to see evidence of your success. More importantly to like to ‘give something back’. Whether you do it quietly or shout it from the hill tops, the judges will want to see what you do locally, how you do it and why. You cannot be shy in this category, tell it as it is. If you have any local coverage or evidence of your kind efforts – let us know.

Employer of the Year Award
• Our criterion to win the award is simple – tell us how you as an employer look after your people so they take care of your business.

Stanair Enterprising Business of the Year Award
• This award will go to the business that can show outstanding initiative, boldness and imagination in the enterprise, as well as sound management practices. Entrants to this award will be expected to demonstrate sustainable growth combined with a degree of commercial success that is exceptional for the size of the business.

Entrepreneur of the Year Award
• You must be able to show how your business has progressed in line with your business plan and what potential there is for growth. Success will be demonstrated by your clear understanding of your marketplace, your position within it and your ability to work with internal and external stakeholders, as appropriate. You will be required to show leadership qualities, and good managerial and financial practice. You should also demonstrate your creativity, entrepreneurialism and your enthusiasm for new ideas. A consciousness of self-development and ability to reflect on your own journey is essential.

Coventry & Warwickshire Green Business Programme Green Award
• Being “green” in business terms means reducing or removing the harmful impact that products and/or services have on the environment.

Service Excellence Award
• The winner of this award will have the customer at its heart and will deploy and manage resources to most effectively meet the needs of its customer base. In most business disciplines the customer is offered a choice of supplier. To ensure the success of a business a customer care policy is paramount. This category encourages entries from any business that can demonstrate established and measurable systems for monitoring service standards.

Young Business Person of the Year Award
• For business people aged 30 or less (by 1st June 2015) who have demonstrated a high degree of entrepreneurship, creativity and vision for the future. The judges will be looking to identify a business that has set and achieved objectives within its business plans and established a position of sustainable profitability and success. In addition to this judges will want to see an understanding of the relationship between your own development and the success of the business.

Events & PR Not for Profit Business of the Year Award
• Not for profit is a type of organisation that does not earn profits for its owners. All of the money earned by or donated to a not for profit organisation is used in pursuing the organisation’s objectives. Typically not for profit organisations are charities or other types of public service organisations.

2017 Winners:

Overall Winner:
• Labyrinth Logistics Consulting

Apprentice of the Year:
• Winner: Sophie Barker – Access Engineering Supplies Ltd

Best New Business:
Winner: Green Cabin Company
Runner Up: Nomad HR and Recruitment Ltd

Business Innovation:
Winner: Labyrinth Logistics Consulting Ltd
Runner Up:Pink Connect

Business of the Year less than 50 Employees
Winner: Purity Brewing Company
Runner Up: Fancy Me Limited

Green Award:
Winner: Sarginsons Industries Ltd
Runner Up: Purity Brewing Company

Enterprising Business of the Year:
Winner: Perform Better Ltd
Runner Up: On The Rocks

Business of the Year greater than 50 Employees:
Winner: Eco-Clean And Maintenance

Community Business of the Year:
Winner: EnV(Coventry) C.I.C.
Runner Up: Appoint Us Services (Midlands) CIC

Employer of the Year:
Winner: Fancy Me Limited

Entrepreneur of the Year:
Winner: Sammantha Selby – Fancy Me Limited
Runner Up: Jo Derviller – Imaginate Creative Ltd

Service Excellence:
Winner: Protel Fieldwork Ltd
Runner Up: Netmetix Limited

Not for Profit Business of the Year:
Winner: Friendship Project
Runner Up: The LEC

Best Customer Service:
Winner: Millennium Balti
Runner Up: Joco Interiors Ltd

Pub of the Year:
Winner: The Old Thatch Tavern
Runner Up: The Golden Cross

Restaurant of the Year:
Winner: Aladdins
Runner Up: Millennium Balti