MAYOR'S BUSINESS OF THE YEAR

This award is open to a business trading for more than three years with a minimum of five employees that can show strong business growth, a commitment to the local community, a business strategy and vision for the next three to five years.

The Borough Council is looking to acknowledge a business which can provide evidence of strong performance in the following areas:

1. Marketing, promoting and growing your business
2. Use of innovation and development of new products or services
3. The growth of new markets and customers at home or abroad
4. How you manage, train and develop your staff
5. How you control and manage the performance of your business
6. Use of good practice in environmental sustainability

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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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BUSINESSPERSON OF THE YEAR

This award will go to 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 their local area.

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BUSINESS INNOVATION

This award celebrates new ideas, processes, products, services, technologies and applications that have had an impact on an organisation’s success. This award will go to the organisation that can best demonstrate an ability to create, grow and develop innovations or processes that substantially improve the commercial performance or prospects of the company.

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ENVIRONMENTAL CHAMPION/S

Presented to the West Norfolk 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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EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR

Individuals may nominate themselves or be nominated by their employers or colleagues. The judges will be looking for an outstanding contribution not only to the organisation and its success, but also to colleagues’ welfare and enhancing the working environment and customer experience.

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APPRENTICE OR TRAINEE
OF THE YEAR

This award is for the rising stars of tomorrow, aged 35 or under, who have made an exceptional contribution to their workplace and can demonstrate commitment to personal development, dedication to career progression and outstanding levels of success.

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KING'S LYNN CHAMPION

This category is specific to levy-paying businesses within the King’s Lynn BID area. The BID Board will be looking for active involvement in the King’s Lynn town centre, evidence of support and/or trade for/with other businesses in the BID, as well as a demonstrable commitment to promoting King's Lynn Town Centre as a place to visit, shop, work, and do business.

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CUSTOMER CARE

This award will recognise the organisation, irrespective of size or sector, that can prove the customer really does come first. You will need to be able to demonstrate commercial success and strategies for growth whilst achieving excellence in looking after customers. The organisation must have objectives for high quality customer service and clear methods of monitoring and evaluating standards.

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LEISURE & TOURISM

Open to any organisation, irrespective of size, involved in the delivery of leisure, tourism, visitor attractions or hospitality. The organisation must demonstrate commercial success and evidence of growth, investment and delivery of innovations and improvements. It should have added value within the borough of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk, created employment opportunities and provided staff development and customer satisfaction.

INDEPENDENT RETAILER

This award is open to all independent retail businesses and will be awarded to the business that can best display ‘first-class’ customer service, market and customer engagement excellence, product and services innovation and differentiation, the ability to adapt to consumer/trading trends.

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