Best Business Awards 2025
The Best Business Awards aim to highlight and reward excellence across the private and public sectors to help you become even more successful.
Recent Winners
Companies experienced a 48% increase in operating income and a 37% growth in sales when compared to non-award winners.
Winner's Benefits
Chances are you will want to tell your target audiences about your success, so we have developed a range of marketing products for our winners to use to promote their win.
As a winner, you will receive a press release with judges’ comments about why you have won.
These comments can also be used on your website and other marketing materials at no cost and will be published on the Best Business Awards website, which is great for link building.
You will also have the option to purchase an impressive Winner’s Pack which includes a winner’s trophy, framed official certificate and a licence to use the winners digital logo on your website and other marketing materials such as brochures and advertisements.
"Winning Business Enabler of the Year at the Best Business Awards has significantly boosted my visibility, media interest, and—most importantly—attracted businesses worldwide to my services. It’s an extra layer of credibility that opens doors. If you know a business that deserves recognition, I highly recommend entering now."
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Paul Boross MBE - Business Psychologist, The Pitch Doctor & Founder, The Humourology Project
“Running and scaling a fast-growth business is a non-stop challenge that tests founders and management teams to the limits! Receiving recognition from the Best Business Awards counts for a huge amount personally and is great to share with the wider business community.”
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Matt Grech-Smith - Competitive Socialising trading as Swingers – The Crazy Golf Club
winning this last award has got me an invitation to join the Institute of Master Trainers Association. I’m really pleased
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Neil Wightman - Founder, Y2 Learn Driver Training
Winning a Best Business Award has provided us with a platform to raise our profile via the media. Since winning we have secured press coverage in key national and regional publications regarding the great work we are doing and we have attracted students to the college that may not have otherwise heard about us.
I would recommend the Best Business Awards to any dynamic organisation that wants to prove to stakeholders that it is delivering.
Dave Cooper
Director of Marketing, Solihull College
How it works
Please provide a written submission of up to 1000 words explaining why you should win, along with any relevant supporting information. You may enter up to 5 categories maximum.
We deliberately do not have rigid category descriptions, as this would only serve to stifle business excellence. The purpose of each category below is, therefore, simply to provide a loose framework for your entry. You are free to interpret each category as you wish – your challenge is to wow the judges with a story about why you stand out from the rest.
Entrants compete against organisations based in the same country. Therefore, be sure to specify in which country your principal office is based when applying.
Our award categories
Frontier Tech
The Frontier Tech Awards recognise and reward organisations and individuals who are pushing the boundaries of technological advancement within their industry. We want to celebrate the successes of ambitious tech companies and highlight excellence within this competitive sector. Technology is highly diverse and constantly evolving in new and dynamic ways. We recognise this, offering seven different technology award categories for outstanding individuals or organisations to enter:
- Technology for Good Award
- Best Growing Tech Business Award
- Start-up Tech Company of the Year Award
- Tech Innovation of the Year Award
- AI Technology of the Year
- Technology Rising Star Award
- Tech Visionary Award
Learn more about our frontier tech awards
Marketing
Content required
Learn more about our marketing awards
Organisation wide
Content required
Learn more about our organisation wide awards
Personal
Content required
Learn more about our personal awards
Sustainability
Content required
Learn more about our sustainability awards
Team
Content required
Tips and hints to help you when
writing your entry:
When reading an entry, the judges consider various elements that need to be included. You do, of course, need to take into account the category you are entering and only apply the points that are applicable to your case. Explain how your business has demonstrated success by including the following:
- financial results
- customer & employee benefits
- community benefits
- investor benefits
Clearly state success measures and try not to leave any gaps in your data (i.e. don’t cherry pick which figures/stats you provide as the judges won’t have the full picture).
Explain how and why you identified a need for your product/service/change/initiative and what planning/development went into it.
Highlight the market reaction, e.g. press coverage, customer feedback, industry awards and anything else you may think is relevant.
Provide projections for future market share, distribution and sales volumes.
The Best Business Awards are marketed and administered by Awards Intelligence the UK’s leading provider of business awards support services, news and information to progressive organisations.
Entries are judged by an independent panel of past winners and other business experts. Each submission is scored against specific category criteria with particular emphasis on success and innovation.
