The waiting is over!ﾃつ On Thursday 30 September, we held the awards lunch for the British Business Boost and announced the winners.ﾃつ And what a great event it was!
All ten finalists were there and they should all be congratulated, celebrated and recognised.ﾃつﾃつﾃつ All of them had remarkableﾃつhistories and excitingﾃつopportunities.ﾃつ They reminded me once again of the passion, drive and resilience of Britain’s owner managers – the “unsung heroes” of the economy.ﾃつ The businessesﾃつrepresented a wonderful cross-section of British inventiveness and vision including several high tech businesses, innovative engineering businesses and high value-adding service businesses.
It’s our joy and our privilege to help them to build even better businesses and to contribute even more to leading us all into the recovery.
I was delighted to be one of the founding partners of the British Business Boost along with Siemens Enterprise Communications who generously sponsored the competition.ﾃつ And I was thrilled to work with such hugely successful fellow judges in Tristram Mayhew, founder and Chief Gorilla of Go Ape, Julie Meyer, founder of Ariadne Capital and Entrepreneur Country, Sarah Willingham from BBC’s “The Restaurant”, and Liam Mangan, Channel Sales Director at Siemens Enterprise Communications.
Of course, there could only be one overall winner.ﾃつ And what a business it is!ﾃつ
The winners of the British Business Boost are:
Matmi New Media Design!
Matmi ( http://www.matmi.com/) are market leaders in an almost entirely new industry.ﾃつ In a world where traditional advertising is being over taken by activities online, Matmiﾃつwork for major brand owners toﾃつdesign and build online interactive games to promote the brands.ﾃつ Their clients include music artists such as Lily Allen and Gorillaz and more traditional brands such as ITV and United Airlines.
Matmi are led by their inspirational and charismatic founder and owner manager, Jeff Coghlan.ﾃつ Jeff is a fireball of creativity, a technical genius and a world expert in this new industry.ﾃつ He is also sufficiently self-aware to realise that he needs to develop himself as a leader of his business in order for it to fulfil its fantastic potential.ﾃつ So, he’s hugely enthusiastic aboutﾃつparticipating in our Better Business Programme as part of his prize.ﾃつ Matmi will also receiveﾃつa state-of-the-art unified communications system from Siemens and an adrenaline-packed team-building day at Go Ape.
To get a flavour of a remarkable business, take a look at their own blo about winning the British Business Boost http://www.matmi.com/blog/?p=1098
Given the standard of the entries it was wonderful that we were also able to award three runners-up prizes to
- Zentek Solutions who design and deliver innovative IT solutions to enhance educational and learning environments
- Kell Systems who make cabinets for IT servers which eliminate noise and significantly reduce heat
- Pudsey Diamond who marry creativity with engineering and technology to manufacture innovative street lighting.
All three runners up received two places each on The Manager’s Toolkit.
We look forward to working with all of them and to helping them create the future they want for their businesses and themselves.
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