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Lancashire Telegraph Business Awards: The winners

12:33pm Saturday 12th November 2011

WITH PHOTO GALLERY: A night of celebration, inspiration and ‘heroic’ success stories marked the 2011 Lancashire Telegraph Business Awards last night.

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Lancashire Telegraph Business Awards: Business of the Year winner Merc Engineering

5:53pm Monday 14th November 2011

The big winner at the 2011 Lancashire Telegraph Business Awards was Merc Engineering Group, a global leader in manufacturing products from components for torpedoes to emergency exit doors for metro systems.

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Lancashire Telegraph Business Awards: Retailer of the Year winner Simply Electricals

5:56pm Monday 14th November 2011

WALKING into an electrical store and fiddling with the remotes would usually get a customer thrown straight back out of the door.

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Lancashire Telegraph Business Awards: Innovation and Technology winner Prestige Medical Ltd

5:57pm Monday 14th November 2011

A ‘WORLD beater’ is the vision for the East Lancashire firm which took home the Innovation and Technology of the Year award.

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Lancashire Telegraph Business Awards: Team of the Year winner Daniel Thwaites

5:58pm Monday 14th November 2011

WINNERS of the Team of the Year, Daniel Thwaites, promised ‘exciting times’ ahead for both the company and the local area at the Business Awards.

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One of the premier events in the business calendar for East Lancashire is now open for entries.

There are 10 awards categories covering every facet of business achievement and enterprise. The winners will be announced at a glittering ceremony to be held at Ewood Park, Blackburn, on Friday, November 11.

Steve Fraser, managing director of operations, United Utilities

United Utilities is delighted to be the major sponsor for the 2011 Lancashire Telegraph Business Awards. The awards, which are a celebration of all that is great about business in East Lancashire, complement our own programme of support for investing £3.6billion in the local water and wastewater infrastructure. We recognise the importance of working closely with local communities and we’re putting great emphasis on a long-term relationship-led approach with our business customers too.

Mike Damms, chief executive, East Lancashire Chamber of Commerce

The Lancashire Telegraph Business Awards have always been a key event in the calendar. It is great to see the best of the best celebrated with a fantastic evening.

Kevin Young, editor, Lancashire Telegraph

These awards climax with the largest annual gathering of East Lancashire business people and are the perfect way to celebrate all the hard work and successes of the year. Commercial and industrial life has never been easy in this area and the last 12 months have been no exception. But we know how enterprising and determined companies are in East Lancashire and there will be some brilliant and inspiring stories to be told. The quality of entrants is always excellent and we look forward to recounting their successes and giving them the recognition they so richly deserve in our region.