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The Winners of the South & West Dorset Open 4 Business Awards celebrated at the Awards Ceremony and Dinner held at Weymouth College on Thursday 6th October 2011.
The Open 4 Business Festival is delivered by the newly formed community interest group Open 4 Business (Dorset) and the Award Ceremony and Dinner was the highlight of the events programme which offers over 25 events between 3rd – 20th October.
Award entries were up 10% on 2010 entry levels and over 75% of the award entrants entered the 04B awards for the very first time. Almost half of the entries came from outside the Weymouth & Portland area. The evening was hosted by Darron Garnett of Real World Services, Julie Cleaver and Stephanie Pettitt, both directors of O4B (Dorset) CIC.
Julie Cleaver, Managing Director said
Tonight has been a total celebration of local business success. The Open 4 Business management team and stakeholders would like to be the first to congratulate all of the Award Winners, as they all prepared outstanding award entries and were duly rewarded for their success. Thanks must also go to our loyal supporters and sponsors without whom we could not run this annual event.
OPEN 4 BUSINESS WINNERS
Small Business sponsored by Hive Beach Café
Wessex Ecoheat Ltd, Bridport
Learning in the Workplace sponsored by Weymouth College
Swift Signs, Weymouth (Winners of Small Business 2010)
Business Engagement in the Community sponsored by Basepoint Business Centres
Battens Solicitors, Weymouth
New Business sponsored by Humphries Kirk, Solicitors
Filberts Fine Foods,
Export sponsored by Old Mill Financial Planners
SALT , Portland (Winners 04B Business of Year 2010)
Tourism & Hospitality sponsored by Resort 2012
Weymouth Harbour Traders Association
Technology & Innovation sponsored by DJ Property
SALT, Portland (Winners of Technology Award 2010)
Retailer & Customer Service Award sponsored by Lloyds TSB
Heavenly Bump , Weymouth (Finalist in E Business category 2010)
Entrepreneur sponsored by Equation Accounting
Freefly Multimedia
Flame Award (Outstanding Contribution to Business) – Female sponsored by Pineapple Business Support
Sue Moore, Principal Weymouth College
Flame Award (Outstanding Contribution to Business) – Male sponsored by Sunflowers Floral Design
Roger Dalton, Weymouth Harbour Traders Assoc
Business of the Year – Sponsored by David Upshall Insurance Services
HEAVENLY BUMP - On-line retailer of maternity wear
During the Award dinner which was sponsored by Enterprising Women Dorset a charity game of “heads and tails” was played to raise money for the Dorset Mammography Appeal. The amount raised was £872.50 and this amount was matched by Lloyds TSB Commercial bringing the final total to £1745.00.
