The Family Business of the Year Awards are organised by Family Business United, the award-winning magazine and resource centre that champions and celebrates the family business sector. Now in their fourth year, these awards recognise the diversity, strength and depth of family firms across the UK and seek to highlight the contribution that family firms make to the UK economy.
Open to family firms of all generations, sizes and sectors, these awards really do recognise some outstanding family firms and really help to put family businesses on the map.
The deliberations are over and the team at Family Business United are delighted to announce the 12 family firms shortlisted for the East Anglia Family Business Of The Year 2016 Award which is being sponsored by Birketts LLP.
The shortlisted firms are:
- Breckland Orchard Limited (Babraham, Cambridgeshire)
- Adcock Refrigeration and Air Conditioning (Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire)
- Perrywood Garden Centre & Nurseries Ltd (Tiptree, Essex)
- Maritime Group Ltd (Felixstowe, Suffolk)
- John Grose Group Ltd (assorted sites across East Anglia)
- Muntons (Holdings) PLC (Stowmarket, Suffolk)
- Green Label Foods Ltd (Woodbridge, Suffolk)
- Sealey (UK) Ltd (Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk)
- Notcutts Group Ltd (Woodbridge, Suffolk)
- P. Tuckwell Ltd (Colchester, Essex)
- Webb & Son (Combs) Ltd (Combs, Suffolk)
- Judges Choice Pet Foods Ltd (Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk)
As Paul Andrews, founder and managing director of Family Business United, the leading online magazine and resource centre for family firms in the UK, explains, "We are delighted to be able to pull together such a vibrant bunch of family businesses, some that have succeeded for numerous generations and continue to thrive, and others that are relatively young but have great values at the heart of what they do."
James Austin, head of family business at Birketts LLP and sponsors of the award added "Any one of those shortlisted would make worthy winners and ambassadors for the sector. We are looking forward to finding out more about each of them and I am sure that the decisions to determine the winner will not be easy. The inaugural winners of this award in 2015 were Phillips Bros (Woodshavings) Ltd whilst Aspall won the Food & Drink Award in 2015 so the 2016 East Anglia winners will be following in the footsteps of some incredible family firms."
The awards process concludes at a Gala Reception and awards ceremony that takes place in London at the prestigious May Fair Hotel in London on June 2 where the winners will be crowned.
For more information about the awards, to vote in the People’s Choice and to find out more about Family Business United, please visit www.familybusinessunited.com
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