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Women in Business Awards
A number of Stroud businesswomen were celebrating success after winning recognition at The Citizen and Gloucestershire Echo's Women in Business awards 2011.
The Business awards presentation dinner, held at Cheltenham Racecourse and attended by over 240 people, was hosted by Sarah Irvine, Managing Director of Gloucestershire Media.
Sarah said: “The awards are all about giving the county's female entrepreneurs the recognition they deserve. The number of entries and calibre was outstanding and to reach the finals of this competition is in itself evidence of a winning performance.”
The New Business of the Year Award went to Chilli Elephant, run by Michelle Chesterton, based in Dudbridge Meadow, Stroud. Chilli Elephant produces top quality south east Asia dinner kits with all the fresh and hard to find ingredients. www.chillielephant.co.uk
Sabrina Pace-Humphreys of Stroud based Trailblazer PR was the joint winner of the Contribution to the Community Award. As well as running her successful PR company, Sabrina is mum to four and devotes a huge amount of her spare time to voluntary work. www.trailblazerpr.com
The Award for Innovation was won by Jane Vear, managing director of Stroud's Winstones Cotswold Ice Cream.
Jane has overseen the refitting of the factory with energy efficient equipment and a recycling system, transformed the company's production process and taken it through a radical process of change. www.winstonesicecream.co.uk
Finally, the Business of the Year Award was won by Nailsworth based Corinium Care. Founded by Camilla Miles in 1995, the company has grown from a one-woman venture to a market leader in the live-in care industry with 800 registered carers, an increasing client list and a rapidly rising turnover. www.coriniumcare.com
2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
The London Games are generating billions of pounds worth of contracts throughout the supply chain and there are still huge opportunities for companies, with significant contracts still to be awarded.
Contracts will be awarded to companies of all sizes, from multi-nationals to SME's and the Games are also creating opportunities across the country with 50% of all the existing Olympic contracts being won by companies outside London.
Companies interested in applying for 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games contracts can sign up to the CompeteFor web portal at www.competefor.com. CompeteFor is a free service that gives unique access to the many opportunities in the London 2012 supply chain.
