Best Growing Business

Sponsored and Judged by NatWest

The Category

Is your company experiencing rapid growth in turnover versus prior years and/or business targets, or increased the range of products or services offered, or perhaps grown in personnel, or created strategic alliances with partners? Your company must have been trading for a minimum of two years at June 2009.

There are two separate groups for small/medium and large companies within this category.

What the judges are looking for

Companies should be able to demonstrate high growth over the past twelve months which substantially exceeded their original business goals.

Businesses should also be able to demonstrate that, through maximising the opportunities available, they have increased in personnel, strategic partners and/or the number of markets in which they operate (i.e. geographic or product related).

Specific questions to answer

1. What level of growth has been achieved in comparison to the business objectives?
2. How have you achieved this growth?
3. What measures are in place to sustain/improve growth?
4. How have you maximised the usage of your management/employee skill base?
5. What systems are in place to satisfy legislation, e.g. employment law, health and safety?

About the judges

Nat West Bank supports its customers with their growth aspirations by providing timely and bespoke funding solutions from its commercial office in Chelmsford. There is a wide range of support available from the organisation ranging from trade finance to acquisition funding.

Judges Paul Andrews and Darren Clark are highly experienced managers based in Chelmsford responsible for delivering financial services and funding solutions to a portfolio of commercial clients. They look forward to receiving entries to the 'Best Growing Business' category.

Last year's winner

Unizone Financial Solutions, Coggeshall

- provides a personalised, independent financial advisory service to clients. Expansion has been achieved by forging strategic alliances and the careful acquisition of three other IFA practices. They recently introduced their own professionally managed investment funds.

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