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Friday 27th November 2026

THE COUNTY GROUND

Welcome to the
Northamptonshire Business Excellence Awards

This year’s charity partner

The Northamptonshire Business Excellence Awards have been
championing and celebrating local businesses since 2018.

At All Things Business, we are proud to offer one of the biggest Northamptonshire business awards, and we hold an Outstanding rating from the Awards Trust Mark Scheme. This scheme recognises ethics and transparency within award programmes, and scrutinises everything from criteria, scoring, feedback, transparency and judging.

As well as showcasing your talent and credibility to your customers and employees, earning a business award can provide great opportunities for networking, social media, and PR.

At our Northamptonshire awards, we love to bring finalists, guests, supporters and sponsors together to recognise the talent, entrepreneurship, and sheer hard work that makes such a positive impact on our local business community.

Award Categories

Apprentice of the Year
This award recognises apprentices who have made a real difference to their workplace. Entrants must demonstrate outstanding commitment to their professional development. They will have gone above and beyond their normal duties by taking on extra responsibilities.
Innovation Award
This award will recognise a business that has demonstrated originality and creativity in implementing change. A business that has been innovative in making a significant contribution to its industry through the introduction or improvement of an idea, method, technology, process or application. An innovation that has made a difference to society with clear examples of how the innovation has had an impact.
Land & Development Award
For this award we are looking for a project that has had a significant impact on the Northamptonshire landscape, community or economy, and where consideration for the environment and innovative thinking have combined to have a positive impact. The project has demonstrated long-term sustainability and provided an extremely impressive outcome for the purpose intended.
Professional Services Award
For this award we are looking for a business that can provide examples of how the organisation has innovated to stay ahead of the competition, and demonstrated new ideas and concepts to evolve the business to address current client requirements. We are looking for a business that can provide information on a recruitment and development strategy and has clearly demonstrated a good culture and environment for its staff.
Community Project or Person of the Year
For this award we are looking for a person or project that has had a remarkable impact on the Northamptonshire community. The person or project will have demonstrated clear devotion and or dedication to helping others or to serving the community.
Sustainability Award
This award recognises any projects, innovations or actions that have improved the sustainability of a business for the benefit of the environment as a whole. Entrants must demonstrate what they have done to improve their own carbon footprint and encourage customers or clients to do the same. The winner will have shown a commitment to ensuring a more sustainable future.
Employer of the Year
This award will recognise employers that have created an outstanding workplace based on a set of values that has led to a committed, effective and motivated workforce. The judges would like to hear about what sets you apart and how that has benefited the business and its people.
Employee of the Year
For this award we are looking for someone who has delivered excellent results, exceeded expectations or who is simply an invaluable member of any team. Nominations can come from any sector and any level of an organisation, and will simply be someone who everyone agrees is a vital cog in the smooth running of a business.
Businessman of the Year
This award will be presented to a businessman who has had a positive impact on a business. They will have shown how they have exceptional drive to succeed and have been integral to making the business or businesses a success. The winner will have made a major contribution to the financial success and performance of an organisation. The panel of judges will assess their different skills, abilities, influences and achievements.
Businesswoman of the Year
This award will be presented to a businesswoman who has had a positive impact on a business. They will have shown how they have exceptional drive to succeed and have been integral to making the business or businesses a success. The winner will have made a major contribution to the financial success and performance of an organisation. The panel of judges will assess their different skills, abilities, influences and achievements.
Venue of the Year
For this award we are looking for a venue that can demonstrate evidence of why they stand out from the competition. We’re looking for examples, with evidence, of how this venue is innovating in its sector and can demonstrate success, whether that’s through its food offering, guest accommodation, events or conference spaces, visitor attractions, fitness suites or other added value services.
Business of the Year
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Outstanding products coupled with great people, innovative marketing and customer service to be proud of are the kind of strengths we are looking for. Impressive financials to prove that your business plan is working are also key. This award will be given to an outstanding business employing fewer than 250 people.
BIG Business of the Year
Winner Image Sponsored by MHA

Outstanding products coupled with great people, innovative marketing and customer service to be proud of are the kind of strengths we are looking for. Impressive financials to prove that your business plan is working are also key. This award will be given to an outstanding business employing more than 250 people or with a turnover in excess of £20m.

We are OUTSTANDING!

All Things Business holds an Outstanding rating from the Awards Trust Mark Scheme, which was established with the aim of encouraging more award programmes to focus on their own ethics and transparency.

The scheme scrutinises everything from criteria, scoring, feedback, transparency and judging. This means that all entries are scored against set criteria and marked through a bespoke software-based scoring system before finalists are selected. The finalists will then be considered by the independent judges to choose a winner.

All Things Business have been awarded 'Outstanding'

Our 2025 Winners

Delapré Abbey

Venue of the Year

Biovate Hygienics

Sustainability Award

Equitech Group Ltd

Professional Services Award

Northampton Town Football Club

Land & Development Award

Spraylat International

Innovation Award

The JPP Group

Employer of the Year

Veronica Vornicescu

Employee of the Year

Jim Wright

The David Laing CBE Award

Paul Meadows

Community Project or Person of the Year

Zeynep Guzelkasap

Businesswoman of the Year

Garry Summers

Businessman of the Year

Simply Techspace

Business of the Year

Emplas

BIG Business of the Year

Stephen Pack

Apprentice of the Year
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“A wonderful evening in the company of so many inspirational people in Northamptonshire”
“It was absolutely nothing like anything else we have been to. The atmosphere was electric, there was a real buzz in the room.”
“All Things Business Northamptonshire continue to put businesses at the fore! The Northamptonshire Business Excellence Awards was spectacular, an evening where businesses making a difference were recognised, celebrated and championed. Proud to have been a part of it!”
“The team at All Things Business are absolutely amazing and so so lovely. The Northamptonshire Business Excellence Awards and Northamptonshire Education Awards that they hold are always such a good night. The quality of the evenings show how hardworking the team are and how much thought and effort is put into everything they do.”
“The recent Northamptonshire Business Excellence Awards programme was PHENOMENAL. To create such a buzz on the run up and to put on the highest calibre of business event in ‘normal’ times is no mean feat. Thank you for all that you do!”
“An extremely enjoyable evening that was very well organised and befitting of the excellent local talent and businesses in the Northamptonshire community.”

Previous Hosts

Russell
Kane

2025

Alex Horne
& The Horne Section

2024

Rob
Beckett

2023

Paddy
McGuinness

2022

Sir Trevor
McDonald

2021

Ben
Thomas

2020

Stephen K
Amos

2019

JIMMY
CARR

2018

The Independent Judges

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Nick Hewer – Retired British television presenter, company director and former public relations consultant.

Star of TV’s The Apprentice Nick Hewer has once again agreed to head up the judging panel for this year’s Northamptonshire Business Excellence Awards. Nick’s PR company first represented Amstrad in the 1980s, and Nick built a long working relationship and friendship with Alan Sugar, who eventually asked him to sit alongside him on The Apprentice.

See the Judging Process CLICK HERE

2025 Awards Gallery

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