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Posted by Alex Bellinger on 1st November 2007.
I had the great pleasure of attending the Startups Awards yesterday afternoon to mix with some inspiring new businesses at an event that had a real buzz to it.
The startup to walk away with the overall winner prize was SportStars which provides organised sport coaching sessions for 4-12 year olds through schools and the local [...]
Posted by Guy Clapperton on 20th June 2007.
Here’s an interesting story that happens to tie in with another of my core activities. A franchise operation, the Dyno Group, has won an award as a good place to work.
Actually there’s a little more to it than that. The franchise’s parent company has won, so the franchise - which no doubt played its part [...]
Posted by Guy Clapperton on 16th May 2007.
The search is on for Britain’s best franchisee - click here for the British Franchise Association’s website which carries details on the front page.
Personally I wonder about the validity of this sort of exercise. Yes of course there can be awards for business, but supposing someone is involved in manufacturing something under a franchise agreement. [...]
Posted by Alex Bellinger on 1st May 2007.
Until I started posting about them on this blog, it hadn’t struck me before how many awards there are for small businesses and entrepreneurs.
I’m all for celebrating success and let’s face it small business owners are well deserving of a few plaudits. And an award is good for business. Not only for the winners, but [...]
Posted by Alex Bellinger on 24th April 2007.
Entries are now open for the fourth annual Startups Awards which aim to recognise the most successful new businesses launched in the last three years.
There’s a wide range of award categories, so if you think your business deserves recognition, it’s worth a punt. Generally the amount of effort required to enter this type of [...]
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