Awards are back once more

THE Red Rose Awards – Lancashire’s premier celebration of business excellence – are back for a 10th year.

Details of the annual event were unveiled at a launch at Stanley House in Mellor.

Award organisers Lancashire Business View revealed a new category for retail business of the year, a merged leisure and hospitality award and categories aimed at online sales and export.

They also unveiled a new timetable for the awards –launched earlier to give businesses more time to enter.

Entries will close at midnight on December 13.

It all culminates in the biggest evening in the county business calendar, the glittering, prize-giving ceremony at Blackpool’s Winter Gardens on March 12 next year.

As it marks its 10th anniversary, the Red Rose Awards will bring back all its familiar favourites – a wide range of categories to cover organisations from all sectors, a sell-out ceremony with a massive party atmosphere, and a true celebration of all things Lancashire.

Forbes Solicitors has been headline sponsors since the launch of the Red Rose Awards 10 years ago and Barclays have now sponsored the event seven years consecutively.

Blackpool and Fylde College has also been announced as judging partner for a second consecutive year.

Each year the aim is to celebrate Lancashire’s finest businesses in style, and each year organisers hear more awe-inspiring stories than before.

Red Rose Awards will once again back charity partner Cash for Kids, for which it has raised £40,000 over five years.