Award Categories

This Award was created to recognise the business personality who best represents achievement and longevity. Synonymous with his or her business sector in the UK, the award acknowledges the winner’s sustained achievements within the business community during a distinguished career. Honing their leadership styles as they lived and breathed their respective businesses and industries, they have demonstrated the value of growing with an organisation and becoming an industry leader. 

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Open to those that began trading on or after April 2010, this Award celebrates Britain’s highest performing new companies and recognises those that have exceeded initial targets for growth and financial performance; best demonstrated an understanding of their competitors, customers, and the markets they operate in; and have the foundations in place for continued commercial success.

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This Award is open to any organisation in the public, private or third sector whose primary aim is to help other enterprises become more profitable or more cost-efficient; to transform or restructure; to develop key aspects of their business; or to achieve new commercial goals.

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Celebrating the qualities of successful entrepreneurship – from drive, ambition, vision and tenacity to inspirational leadership, inventiveness and confidence – this Award recognises an enterprising individual that has achieved the highest and most sustained levels of growth and financial performance through a culture of innovation, market knowledge, and talent development.

Celebrating the achievements of British businesses that have achieved the highest levels of growth from international sales or operations, this Award will identify ten market leaders that have demonstrated exceptional growth from overseas business over the last 18 months. 

Open to any UK organisation trading online, this Award recognises those best optimising all aspects of the web to achieve consistent growth and strong financial performance through exceptional delivery, customer experience, and innovation.

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Celebrating those organisations demonstrating the link between customer service and profit, this award recognises those constantly striving to exceed customer expectations, deliver industry leading standards of service, and innovate around customer experience.

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Focusing on corporate longevity, this Award recognises those organisations that have embedded business sustainability principles and practices and are reaping the benefits in terms of improved commercial performance, competitiveness, customer perception, staff engagement, and prospects for continued financial strength. 

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Focusing on a range of diversity objectives, this Award recognises those investing in processes, policies and culture to promote and enable greater diversity at executive level - and demonstrating the positive impact this is having on commercial performance and operational excellence. 

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Celebrating the organisations that exist to address social or environmental need, reinvesting all profits or surpluses into the community or back into the business, this award recognises those achieving the greatest impact while demonstrating excellence in all aspects of enterprise – from innovation, staff engagement and customer focus to growth, leadership and financial performance. 

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This award recognises the most successfully applied ideas, approaches, processes, products, services, technologies and applications that have enabled organisations or their clients to improve their commercial performance, competitiveness or operational efficiency.

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Recognising an outstanding increase in sales, profit, market share, headcount or geographical expansion, this Award will go to the organisation demonstrating the best levels of growth for its size and sector and the most robust plan for sustained financial performance.

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Highlighting the story behind the share price, looking at how Britain’s best large businesses are delivering shareholder value while growing sustainably and expanding operations in the UK and overseas, this Award will recognise ten market leaders from a range of industries in the FTSE 100. 

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Highlighting the role of the private sector in addressing social challenges, and improving the communities in which they operate, the Corporate Citizenship Award will recognise those demonstrating the greatest impact on quality of life, economic prosperity or regeneration through direct investment, pro bono work or employee led initiatives. This Award also seeks to demonstrate the link between corporate citizenship and commercial success.

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This Award will go to the organisation that has achieved significant improvement in commercial and operational performance by investing in people - in their development and well-being - and creating a truly collaborative culture with a well-motivated, well-trained, ambitious, innovative and integrated workforce. 

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This Award recognises the SME that has maintained consistent growth and strong financial performance, understands its customer, has full buy-in from staff with strong leadership, and is continually innovating and investing in R&D to support future growth.

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This Award recognises the personal imprint of the UK’s most high profile leaders on the culture and success of their organisations and the industries they operate in – with five high profile CEOs invited to participate as industry champions from key sectors. Focusing on their achievements as business leaders over the last 18 months, and what they have achieved in the course of their career, this award presents five different but exemplary leadership styles.

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