Best New Start up

Eastaway Property
Devos Dance & Drama
RS Mobile Services Ltd

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Employee/Team of the Year

Bluebird Care
Matthew Cox
Nisa Northfields

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Business Innovation

Pocket Sargeant
Cell Regeneration Ltd
Art Pop-Up

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Businessperson of the Year

Ben Wells - WELLSPINE
Elisabeth Summers - Stamford Strings Ltd
Mat Cooper - Stamford Gymnastics Club

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Small Business of the Year

BEfit Gym
Two Chimps Coffee
Options Day Care Opportunities Ltd
Pocket Sergeant

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Large Business of the Year

Connections Legal Management Ltd
Retail Data Partnership
MorePeople

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Customer Care

Stamford Property Maintenance Ltd
Peters' Cleaners Ltd
Green Oakham Dental Care
Healthy Hearing

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Best Independent Retailer

Vine House Farm
Simmons Optometrists
Nisa Northfields
PET STOP

Environmental Champion

Root-and-Branch Out C.I.C
Two Chimps Coffee
Retail Data Partnership

Best Social Enterprise

Osprey Leadership Foundation
Second Helpings
Options Day Care Opportunities Ltd
Stamford & Rutland Junior Netball Club

Best New Start up

Has your business been a roaring success in its infancy? Has it exceeded all your expectations or is it exactly on the right track, looking strong and with excellent prospects for the future?

You may be a one-man band looking to expand, or you may have started at a larger scale and already proved your ideas work. This award is open to companies in business for up to three years from the date of the launch (Friday, September 4, 2020).

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Employee/Team of the Year

This award is to celebrate dedication and commitment to the business. The title will go to the employee or team who always go the extra mile and exceed expectations within their company.

The judges will be looking for an employee or team who can demonstrate how their attitude, commitment and dedication to their job has delivered significant benefits to the company they work for.

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Business Innovation

This award will go to the organisation that can best demonstrate an ability to create, grow and develop innovations or processes that improve commercial performance or the prospects of the company.

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Businessperson of the Year

The winner of this award will be an individual who stands out from the crowd, has an entrepreneurial spirit, demonstrates outstanding achievement and inspires others around them.

The winner of this award will have been instrumental to the success of their business, growing the reputation of both their business and the area in which they operate.

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Small Business of the Year

This award is open to a business trading for more than three years with up to 20 employees and which is able to demonstrate excellence and innovation in its field, management with the ability to drive the business forward and funding arrangements and investment plans for the future of the business.

It must show it understands its market, has arrangements to respond to change and can demonstrate why the business should win.

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Large Business of the Year

This award is open to a business trading for more than three years with more than 20 employees that can show evidence of business growth, a commitment to the local community, a business strategy and vision for the next three to five years, proven success and achievement during the past two years, management with the ability to drive the business forward and a genuine commitment to its staff.

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Customer Care

This award will recognise the company, irrespective of size or sector, that can prove it really does put the customer first. Has your business excelled to help one customer in particular or perhaps you have introduced new ways of working to help every customer?

The organisation must have objectives for high quality customer service and clear methods of monitoring and evaluating standards.

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Best Independent Retailer

This award celebrates the shops which truly make the Mercury area special and will be judged on financial performance, product and store innovation as well as excellent customer service.

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Environmental Champion

Presented to the business that can demonstrate a commitment to reduce its carbon footprint with projects such as cutting its use of fossil fuels, caring for the natural environment, improving the use of resources by cutting waste, reducing pollution and increasing its environmental understanding.

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Best Social Enterprise

This award is open to charities and social enterprises who can demonstrate significant commercial and social impact of their activities. Judges will want to see clear evidence of commercial awareness and innovative strategies that complement the altruistic aims of the organisation.

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