Judging at UK Business Awards 2018
UK Business Awards celebrates outstanding business innovation among individuals, teams and organisations within the UK. This year’s Finals took place on the 7th of December at the Park Plaza Riverbank, in London. The 45 companies that made it to the Finals sent their representatives to pitch in 20 different categories of awards, before a panel of 80 judges in total.UKBA offers recognition through its awards to 20 companies who are worthy of honour within their industry. The event also provides an opportunity to share insights and best practices among business professionals, and brings together amazing entrepreneurs with tremendous achievements in their record. Lyda Modiano was honoured to contribute her expertise in the judging panel for the Entrepreneur of the Year Award, alongside the other seasoned professionals in the judging committee:Aniruddha Kaprekar, Kerry Gidziewicz, Ursula Cameron, Farid Zadeh Bagheri.The winner, Mark Wright Founder of Climb Online has achieved impressive results , quadrupling the company’s turnover in less than two years and making Climb Online UK’s fastest growing digital marketing agency. City Pantry and Young Foodies also gave admirable pitch presentations.The UK market is so vast, so open to free competition and so full of thriving and inspiring companies. One wonders: To what extent will Brexit impact this agile market?
The other 19 awards went to:
Utilities: Business Stream
SME – B2B – Customer Focus: LACE Partners
Team of the Year – Strategy/Project: GLL UK
Retail & e-commerce: Absolute Design
Inspirational leader: Emma Donnelly from Cross Country
New Business: Young Foodies
Disruptive Business Model: Divido
Management Education and Training: GLL UK
Team of the Year – Strategy/Project: GLL UK
Financial Services: Vizolution in partnership with Royal Bank of Scotland
Team of the Year: NatWest Business
Innovation: Diabetes UK
Professional Services: VHR
SME – B2B: Farrer Kane
Best Place to Work: Affinity for Business
Business Change or Transformation: Business Stream
Customer Centric Organisation: Tech Mahindra
Innovation – Challenging the Status Quo: Fourpure Brewing Co.
Overall Winner: Tech Mahindra in partnership with Three UK