Local business owners can enter their business into one of 10 categories to be in with a chance of winning at the sixth annual Mendip Business Awards. The winners will be announced during the evening celebrations at the Royal Bath & West Showground on Wednesday 27th May.
Mendip is home to 6,000 independent and vibrant businesses and the annual awards are held to recognise and celebrate their hard work and success.
Cllr Peter Goater, Mendip District Council portfolio holder for economic development said, “I am looking forward to seeing which Mendip businesses take the opportunity to enter these fantastic awards. Old, new, big, or small – we’ll be celebrating the very best in Mendip and giving them the recognition they deserve.”
This year’s awards have a category for every type of business, including ‘Market Trader of the Year’. This award celebrates the art of market trading in Mendip towns throughout 2019.
Businesses wishing to enter the awards can find more information on the website: www.mendipbusinessawards.co.uk. Categories open to all Mendip businesses include:
• Community Enterprise of the Year – sponsored by Aster Group
• Retail/ Hospitality Business of the Year – sponsored by Middlewick Holiday Cottages
• Customer Services Excellence – sponsored by Melhuish & Saunders
• Taste of Mendip – sponsored by Swan Hotel, Wells
• Family Business of the Year – sponsored by Ayton Global Research
• Market Trader of the Year – sponsored by Burton Sweet
• Apprentice of the Year – sponsored by Mendip District Council
• New Business of the Year – sponsored by Old Mill
• Small Business of the Year – sponsored by NFU Mutual, Wells
• Business of the Year – sponsored by Heart Radio
Last year’s Business of the Year was Netitude. Netitude is a Frome-based business offering complete IT solutions including business technologies, IT and communications infrastructure, training, cyber security, cloud migration and digital transformation.
The Customer Service Excellence Award 2019 went to Chris Young Opticians in Shepton Mallet. Chris said, “My team felt on top of the world when they found out that they’d won the Customer Service Excellence Award’. We couldn’t believe it, it was fantastic. Our customers have responded really positively to the news that we’d won.”
This year’s title sponsors are Strode College, The Royal Bath & West Show and Mendip District Council. The awards are also held in partnership with many local food and drink specialists around the district including Burns The Bread, Worleys Cider, Brothers Drinks, Barbers Farmhouse Cheese and Lilley’s Cider. Red Berry Recruitment are kindly sponsoring the welcome drinks at the awards evening.
For more information and how to enter or to register your interest in tickets, visit www.mendipbusiness awards.co.uk, email: biz awards@mendip.gov.uk or call 01749 341345. You can also follow @MendipBiz Awards on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
