Award Accolades for the Best in Business

Accolades for enterprise excellence were awarded to the best in business across South Durham on Saturday night.

Winners of the South Durham Business Awards were unveiled at a prestigious ceremony held at Redworth Hall hotel on Saturday 30th November – with almost 200 business peoplein attendance.

Celebrating its third year – the awards have become County Durham’s top accolade for Durham based businesses - recognising the outstanding contribution that local businesses make to the regional economy.

The event organised by South Durham Business Network and Engineering and Manufacturing Forum and sponsored by Business Durham and Bishop Auckland College - recognise business excellence, innovation and achievement. Awards included business apprentice of the year, best online business, employer of the year and best business start- up.

Other awards were presented for the best in engineering and manufacturing, innovation of the year, employer of the year and outstanding contribution to South Durham.

The awards were presented to winners by Cllr Neil Foster, portfolio holder for Economic Development and Regeneration at Durham County Council. Darren Race, Chairman of the South Durham Business Network said: “The awards have been a great success. This year has been our best year ever with even more categories and nominations.

“It is so important to recognise and showcase the achievements of all those businesses based in Durham. We have some fantastic businesses here and we need to celebrate and promote their success.

“Businesses have faced a number of challenges over the past few years. They have not only survived a tough economic climate - but have found innovative ways to grow and sustain their businesses.

“County Durham has such a diverse range of innovative businesses and I’m delighted that some of these companies have been recognised for their outstanding achievements.