Categories: Best Sole Trader, sponsored by 08 BusinessConnect Do you run your own business single-handedly? Can you demonstrate good business practice? Have you achieved success by winning a new order or new clients, developed strategies for overcoming difficulties or offer a service that is second to none? Enter this award now and tell us about your success. By entering this award you could receive the reward you deserve for successfully setting up and running your business. Best Small Business, sponsored by BusinessLiverpool Whatever your trade, if you have a great business, tell us about it! If you have between two and 30 employees and can demonstrate all-round business excellence you should enter this award. The judges will be looking for specific achievements in your market place, evidence of an excellent business strategy, good financial performance and your potential for the future. If your business achievements are impressive, enter now! Most Promising Business Start-up If your business has been running for two years or less, why not enter this award and achieve recognition for your hard work? You may have brought a fantastic new product to market, found a niche area to focus on or overcome all odds to achieve success. You will need to explain the background to your business and your market place, how your business has performed to date, as well as your plans for the future. Best Young Business Achiever Are you, or one of your colleagues or employees, able to demonstrate outstanding achievements in your field? From innovative and fresh approaches to traditional ways of thinking, excellent career progression, to excellent leadership and management, tell us about these achievements. Best Social Enterprise, sponsored by 20/20 Liverpool If your not for profit organisation is making an impact on your community or environment make sure you enter this awards. Judges will be rewarding the concern that has achieved success in delivering objectives and made good use of the resources available driven by excellent business management. Best Responsible Business, sponsored by Liverpool Chamber of Commerce Does your business have a history of applying ethical values to business behaviour and embracing that in all areas of your business? Be rewarded for your commitment and enter this award by telling us about your company values and how these are practices through business management and in the workplace. Tell us how your business behaviours have had an impact on staff morale, your local community or the environment and how they have led to real business benefits. Enterprise Champion Do you, or does someone you know, stand out from the crowd among other entrepreneurs? Receive the recognition you/they deserve and enter this award. Judges will take into consideration overall business performance in recent years, prospects for the future and how this entrepreneur has been instrumental in the success of the business, along with the specific reason behind what makes this person different to the norm. Entry information Entries must come from within the Liverpool ECHO circulation area. To enter, applicants must submit a written summary to demonstrate how they or their business meet the category requirements as well as demonstrate how they stand out from others. Entrants must also complete the financial chart. The closing date for entries is July 6. For further information please contact: 0151-472 2570. Latest information/apply on line at: www.icliverpool.co.uk/enterprisechampions or email: enterprisechampions@icliverpool.net |