On Tuesday 26th March, the founders, organisers, and main sponsor CN Chartered Accountants held the official launch of the 2024 Stockport Business Awards. The event was held at CN’s head office, in Cheadle Royal Business Park. Guests had the opportunity to network with people within Stockport’s business community and hear all about what to expect for this year’s event.
Founder of the awards, Andrew Baggot, from CN, presented updates on what to expect this year.
This year’s categories were also announced with entries opening on the 10th of April!
- Business of the Year up to £1m
- Business of the Year £1-5m
- Business of the Year over £5m
- Most Promising Young Business
- Employer of the Year
- Family Business of the Year
- Best Not-for-Profit Organisation
- The CSR Award
- Best In-house Marketing Team/Individual of the Year
- Best Creative/Design Agency
- The Innovation Award
- Hospitality Business of the Year – NEW FOR 2024
- The Stockport Award
This year’s sponsors were also announced, with continued support from headline sponsors Gorvins Solicitors and category sponsors, Dawn, Marketing Stockport, Stockport Council, CN Financial Planning, CN Strategic Advisors, and Edgeley Park. New sponsors for 2024 include Grassroots Recruitment and Stockport College.
The last announcement of the evening was this year’s Charity Partner. Mentell was named as the 2024 Charity on the evening, with Chair, Alanna Atkinson commenting:
“We are truly honoured to have been chosen as the Stockport Business Awards charity partner for 2024. Mentell was born and bred in Stockport back in 2017 and we’ve had some wonderful support from local businesses over the years. We would like to extend a huge thank you to all the organisers at this year’s awards and good luck to all the nominees. We look forward to celebrating with you in October!”
Marketing Manager, Rob Bone, commented “It was great to get the 2024 Stockport Business Awards underway and we were delighted to see lots of new faces at the launch event. Thank you to all the sponsors for their continued support and we can’t wait for entries to open and see all the great business success happening in Stockport”.
The Stockport Business Awards will take place on Thursday 3rd October 2024 at Edgeley Park. For more information about this year’s Business Awards contact georgiahilton@cngrp.co.uk