Sussex Business Awards
Launched
Fiona Graves, Caraline Brown, Sue Popper,
Sam Harrington Low, Lynne East
The winners of the 26th Sussex Business
Awards are due to be announced at a
ceremony in Brighton held at The Grand
Brighton later this year.
Andrew Hookway with the Mayor of
Crawley, Cllr Brenda Smith
Three launches took place across
Sussex to promote the awards and to
give local businesses a chance to find
out a little more about them. These were
held in Brighton, Crawley and Uckfield
during the summer.
Karen Davis, Zoe Thomas, Lee-Ann Connor, Sarah Bird
Adrian Corbin, Mark Johnson, Nick Brandon
Those who attended heard from previous
winners who explained what winning an
award had meant for them as well as
judges outlining what they were looking
for in a winning award entry.
Trophies include the prestigious
Company of the Year, International
Company of the Year and individual
awards for Entrepreneurship and
Business Success.
Mike Punter and Patrick Spencer
John Green, Martin Hosken
Ian Treat, Samantha Cuff,
Jan Edwards, Martin Smith
Three new sponsors, including our firm,
Mayo Wynne Baxter, Sussex Downs
College and Wealden District Council,
were also announced.
Jason Edge and Laurence Elphick
Mike Herd, Executive Director of Sussex
Innovation Centre and Sussex Business
Person of the year 2000, took over the
Chair of the awards from Peter Field, the
Lord Lieutenant of East Sussex.
Jessica Beales, Claire Walsh, Alisha Pandya
Mike holds the Queen’s Award for
Enterprise Promotion in recognition of
the support he has provided to innovative
businesses in Sussex over 16 years.
Celebrating business excellence across
Sussex, the Awards are the longestestablished scheme of their kind in Sussex.
Jason Edge, Andrew Hookway, Patrick Spencer
Sophie Niles and Louise Vincent
Lisa Beale, Helen Markwick, Elizabeth
Maxwell, Steve Hagman, Terry Nitman,
Mark Greco, Adrian Corbin
Alan Margetts and Peter Lane
The winners will be announced in a
future edition of re:
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Finn Scott Delany, Sean Kember, Jessie
Hicks, Daniel Karlson
Mike Punter, Rachel Hutchinson, Alan Margetts, Chris Robinson
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