Hundreds battle it out for prestige awards

Jan 30 2008 by Peter McCusker, The Journal

JUDGING has now begun in the region’s biggest and best business awards.

Hundreds of entries have come in for the 2007 North-East Business Awards, which are run by The Journal and its sister paper the Evening Gazette in Middlesbrough.

There is just one week until the first winners from the Tyneside and Northumberland sub-region will be announced at a glittering awards dinner at the Newcastle Marriott Hotel, Gosforth Park, on February 28.

Black-tie dinners announcing the winners in the two other sub-regions – Tees Valley and Durham and Wearside – will take place in March.

The Olympia building at the University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, is being used for the first time as the venue for the Tees Valley final on March 6, and the Ramside Hall Hotel, Durham, is the venue for Durham and Wearside final on March 13.

The sub-region winners from all three areas will go through to the finals on Thursday, May 1, at the Hardwick Hall Hotel near Sedgefield.

This is the eighth year of the North-East Business Awards in its revised format.

In that time these awards have grown to be among the best-known and most respected throughout the business community in the North-East.

The aim of the awards are to recognise achievement, to encourage excellence and to celebrate success.

Each award has a separate judging panel with an appropriate chairperson, nominated by the award sponsor.