Entries Now Open For Awards Celebrating Britain’s Best New Businesses

30/08/12

The ninth annual Startups Awards 2012 have launched and are now open for entries.

Sponsored by NatWest and organised by Startups.co.uk, the UK’s biggest and most established independent resource dedicated to starting a business, the Awards recognise the success of Britain’s newest businesses which have been trading for less than three years.

Previous winners at the Awards over the past eight years have included some of the UK’s fastest rising brands, such as Wonga.com, Naked Wines, BeatThatQuote.com (sold to Google for £37.7m), BLOTTR and The Cambridge Satchel Company.

There are thirteen awards up for grabs this year, including two new categories; Trade Business of the Year and Freelance Business of the Year as well as Online Business of the Year, Innovative Business of the Year and the overall NatWest Startups Business of the Year, the winner of which is selected from the winners of the other categories.

Duncan Bannatyne, of Dragons’ Den fame, will sit on the judging panel with a number of other highly successful entrepreneurs and business experts including Kate Russell, reporter and journalist for BBC Click and Julie Deane, co-founder of the Cambridge Satchel Company, winner of the NatWest Startups Business of the Year award last year.

The deadline for entries is 14 September 2012. Visit www.startupsawards.co.uk to request your entry pack.

This year’s winners will be announced at an awards ceremony at the Kensington Roof Gardens, on Friday 7 December 2012. Finalists, judges, journalists and sponsors will be attending these prestigious awards.