Gloucestershire Echo

Waiting is over... tonight’s the night for the stars of business

- Olivia FOX oliviarose.fox@reachplc.com

THE wait is finally over – The Gloucester­shire Business Awards take place tonight (October 10).

This evening will see Cheltenham Racecourse fill with local inspiratio­nal business profession­als as we celebrate their achievemen­ts.

It has been a long six-month wait in the build-up to the event of the year for local businesses.

Throughout this time, we have delivered many stories about the most incredible businesses and local companies in the area. Tension has been building, but tonight is finally the night of the awards.

The judging process proved to be quite the task because having to narrow down the finalists from the wonderful nomination­s that we received was difficult.

Only two weeks ago, we hosted a reception for the finalists at the Randall & Payne headquarte­rs in Cheltenham.

Last week, we finally revealed who would be our guest speaker at the awards. Tonight, comedian and former brain box behind everything digital at Innocent drinks, Helena Langdon, will take to the stage, ready to enthral the audience.

It really is not a night to be missed. More informatio­n can be found on the Gloucester­shire Business Awards website at https://reachplcev­ents.com/events/west/gloucester­shire-live-business-awards/.

» THESE are the official finalists in the 2019 Gloucester­shire Business Awards

» Business of the Year Avon Specialty Metals Ltd EESI Group Services GBE Converge

» Small Business of the Year Cyber Security Associates Limited Haremi Ltd The Logical Utilities Company Ltd

» Family Business of the Year Geometric Manufactur­ing Ltd Gloucester Carpet Outlet Leeways Packaging Services

» New Business of the Year Cleevely Electric Vehicles Gloucester Student Houses T2 Alloys Limited The Coconut Tree Limited

» Young Business Person of the Year George Tatham-losh, Move Sales and Lettings Hannah Hudson, Stonelea Riding Centre Tom Parling, CEO Ocere Ltd Tora Atkinson, of Element Recruitmen­t

» Business Innovation Leeways Packaging Services Ltd Protrack Solutions Limited Salpo Technologi­es

» Marketing Campaign of the Year Barrington Ayre Shirtmaker & Tailor First Base Employment Ltd Vanessa Arbuthnott

» Best Place to Work Holiday Architects Radioactiv­e PR Sanctus Ltd

» Growth Business of the Year Geometric Manufactur­ing Ltd Gloucester Carpet Outlet

» Corporate Social Responsibi­lity Award Colour Connection Furniture Recycling Project Procook

» Best Employee Carmen Daley, Apprentice Management Group Olivia Pym, Move Property Sales and Lettings Remi Ashton, Ocere Ltd.

 ??  ?? Tim Watkins, managing partner of Randall & Payne, presents the last year’s Business of the Year award to Batten and Allen
Tim Watkins, managing partner of Randall & Payne, presents the last year’s Business of the Year award to Batten and Allen
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