The UK Amazon Growing Business Awards ceremony will take place on 29th November 2017 at The Brewery, London. Today, the e-commerce/tech company has announced their shortlist of companies in the mix to win. According to Amazon, more than 500 nominations were received from across the UK. The nominations showed strong representations from food & beverage, tech and manufacturing. But Fintech was there, along with some companies that have leveraged crowdfunding to raise growth capital. Revolut, the digital only challenger bank that recently raised money on Seedrs and Lendable, an online consumer lender, are both up for an award.
The Growing Business Awards have celebrated the UK’s businesses and entrepreneurs for 18 years now. The Amazon Growing Business Awards are the UK’s most prestigious awards ceremony that celebrates the successes of the UK’s SMEs and entrepreneurs.
Doug Gurr, UK Country Manager from Amazon, congratulated all of the participants;
“The depth and breadth of this year’s shortlist proves why the UK is a great place to set up and run a business,” said Doug Gurr, UK Country Manager, Amazon. “With a record number of applicants, there was a high level of competition in every category. I’d like to congratulate all of the businesses shortlisted and wish them all the best of luck on the awards night.”
Hunter Ruthven, editor of Real Business who partners with Amazon on the event, said it was wonderful to uncover such a wealth of growing businesses;
“The greatest joy is when the winners go on to be global success stories and among the shortlisted businesses announced today, there is tons of potential for British businesses to compete on the global stage.”
The full Amazon Growing Business Awards 2017 shortlist is below:
B2B Business of the Year
o Forrest Brown, London
o HPD Software Limited, London
o Lawson Conner, London
o My Home Move, Leicester
o Sorted Group, Manchester
o Virtualstock, Reading
o Xceptor, London
o Yerra Solutions, Durham
Consumer Business of the Year
o Bambino Mio, Northampton
o Coldpress Foods, London
o Monty Bojangles, Surrey
o Pip & Nut, London
o Sykes Cottages, Chester
o Tails.com, London
o The Collective, London
Creative Industries Business of the Year
o Bulletproof, London
o Coffee & TV, London
o Playrcart, London
o Shopper Media Group, London
o Tiffany Rose, Chessington
Digital Business of the Year
o Everyclick, Evesham
o Lendable, London
o Love the Sales, London
o Quint Group, Macclesfield
o Virtualstock, Reading
o WeSwap, London
o WUNDER2, London
o Yieldify, London
Entrepreneur of the Year
o Lee Biggins, CV-Library, Fleet
o Mark Januszewski and Craig Foster, DOMU Brands, Manchester
o Jacyn Heavens, Epos Now, Norwich
o Michael Tomlins, Infomedia/Humley, Northampton
o Jazz Gandhum, e-Careers, Langley
o Sean Ramsden, Ramsden International, Grimsby
o Paul Wedgwood, Splash Damage, Bromley
Export Champion of the Year
o ATG Access, Haydock
o Cocofina Limited, Eastcote
o CPR Global Tech, Swansea
o Pricecheck, Sheffield
o Rarewaves Ltd, London
o Rex International , London
Family-Owned Business of the Year
o Grasmere Gingerbread® ,Cumbria
o Harts of Stur, Sturminster Newton
o Hay Hampers, Bourne
o KP Technology, Wick, Scotland
o Mash Direct, Comber
o Origin, Buckinghamshire
o PJ Care Limited, Milton Keynes
o Uuni (Tapaninaho), Edinburgh
Growing Business of the Year: Larger Company (Turnover £50m+)
o Acturis Group, London
o DOMU Brands, Manchester
o HH Global, Fetcham
o thebigword, Leeds
o Utilita Energy, Winchester
o XLN, London
Growing Business of the Year: Mid-sized Company (Turnover £25m-£50m)
o Crawford Healthcare, Knutsford
o Harvey Water Softeners, Woking
o Hunter Macdonald, Reading
o NPW Gifts, London
o Plan.com, Isle of Man
o Trak Global Group, Crewe
o Verdant Leisure, Lancaster
Growing Business of the Year: Smaller Company (Turnover £10m-£25m)
o Falcon Green, London
o Inclusion Housing, York
o LA Micro Group UK Limited, York
o Lights4fun, Harrogate
o Little Dish, London
o Reassured, Basingstoke
o Telensa, Cambridge
o The Travel Chapter Limited, Bideford
Growing Business of the Year: Smaller Company (Turnover up to £10m)
o Click for Games
o CommuterClub, London
o Crunch, Brighton
o Digitavia, Surrey
o Flight Club Darts, London
o Laundryheap Limited, London
o TrustedHousesitters, Brighton
o webexpenses, Witney
Innovator of the Year
o Celaton, Milton Keynes
o Complete Utilities, Gloucester
o GUARDHOG, Twickenham
o Revolut, London
o SeedLegals, London
o WeSwap, London
o ZoneFox, Edinburgh
Micro Business of the Year
o AM Bid Services, North Berwick
o Beauty Boulevard, Lincoln
o Emma Hellier, Bexhill-on-Sea
o Making Moves London, London
o Poptails by LAPP, London
o The Centre for Crisis Psychology (CCP), Skipton
o Turtle Tots, London
Rural Business of the Year
o Enterprise Products, Stamford
o KP Technology, Wick
o Pontus Research, Aberdare
o Sally’s Cottages, Keswick
o TestLink Services, Poole
o THE RAW CHOCOLATE PIE COMPANY, Cornwall
The Triumph over Adversity Award
o AM Marketing, Chartham
o Cycloc, London
o Devon Contract Waste, Exeter
o Ma Baker, London
o SnapDragon Monitoring, Edinburgh
Young Company of the Year
o AM Bid Services, North Berwick
o ClickMechanic, London
o Climb Online, London
o Corinium Global Intelligence , London
o Fleximize, Ipswich
o Home Made, London
o Goat, London
Young Entrepreneur of the Year
o Digby Vollrath & Hugo Campbell, Feast It, London
o Machine Learning & Nicholas Shekerdemian, Headstart, London
o Claudia Lambeth, Luna Mae London, London
o Peter Ramsey, Movem, Brighton
o Calum Brannan, No Agent Technologies, London
o Luke Massie, Vibe Tickets
o Simon Hill, Wazoku, London