Finalists for Cherwell Business Awards 2020 announced
07/11/2020
The awards ceremony will take place virtually on 11th December
This year’s Cherwell Business Awards are all set to go ahead as a virtual event. The event was originally planned for earlier in the year as a Gala Dinner, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ahead of the award presentations in December the finalists for each of the nine categories have been announced. The winner of the 10th category – The Overall Cherwell Winner Award – will be selected from the finalists of all nine categories.
The judging panel is formulated from the sponsors of the awards. They drew up their shortlist of businesses, business people and charities after extensive consideration of the applications, interviews with the organisations and a collective judging meeting that took place on November 5th.
The Cherwell Business Awards event will take place virtually on Friday 11 December between 6 and 7pm.
Placi Espejo, one of the four directors of the Cherwell Business Awards, said: “We have been monitoring Government advice and guidelines throughout the year in the hope that we could still host our postponed Gala Dinner at our usual venue, Heythrop Park. In light of the current situation, this is not to be.
“Nevertheless, all of the CBA team and our sponsors still wanted to recognise and celebrate the outstanding businesses in the Cherwell District and express our appreciation for the effort all the businesses have gone to in entering the awards.
“With a great AV team now in place, we are all very excited to be delivering the awards in this creative and accessible way, whilst still hopefully being able to achieve the personal and celebratory ambiance of the normal awards.
“Thank you to everyone who applied and congratulations to all shortlisted finalists.”
Cherwell District Council is the Headline Sponsor, pledging its support for the awards and encouraging the success of Cherwell’s local economy.
The 2020 Finalists are:
The Spratt Endicott Established Business Award
- Castle Minibus
- Walraven Ltd
- Juice Global Ltd
The High Spec Composites Small Business Award
- Summertown Garage Limited
- Andy’s Barbers
- The Evergreen Agency
The Oxford Innovation Innovation Award
- Powdertech Bicester Ltd
- Nekton
- DJS Antibodies
The Oxford Technology Park New Business Award
- Phoenix Dog Grooming
- The Pizza Boys Bicester
- Produce Warriors Ltd
The Bicester Village Retail Award
- One Man Band
- The Blue Texel
- Imagex Ltd
The Nicholsons Charity and community Award
- Clean Slate
- Bicester Baby Bank
- The Sunshine Centre
The Bicester Vision, Bicester Chamber, Wednesday Business Club Micro Business Award
- Sarah Plater Photography
- The Wriggly Monkey Brewery
- Sky Wave Gin
The A2 Dominion Sustainable Business Award
- Second Time Round
- Nothing But Footprints
- Bicester Green
The Ellacotts Business Person of the Year Awards
- Ryan Breslin, Cherwell Windows
- David Cooper, One Man Band
- Jolyon Bennett, Juice Global Ltd
The Norbar Torque Tools Overall Winner Award 2020
- To be selected from the above finalists
Published: by the Banbury FM News Team
