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category winners and all Glasgow Business
Awards 2015 pictures are courtesy of Great Scot Photography
Award winners make Glasgow proud T
he Glasgow Business Awards 2015 saw a record 700 guests turn out at the Hilton Glasgow to celebrate the city’s achievements and successes
over the past 12 months. Big winners included GAP Hire Solutions,
who pulled off a hat-trick, winning the Best Performing Business (51 employees or over) and the People Development categories as well as the Bank of Scotland Award for Most Outstanding Business. T e Pets’n’Vets Family took the title of Glasgow’s Favourite Business with A.C. Whyte & Co. Ltd. named as Family Business of the Year for the third year running. Lord Gordon of Strathblane CBE, or Jimmy
Gordon, as he’s widely known, was awarded the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Award for Lifetime Achievement. Lord Gordon was Chief Executive of the-then parent company of Radio Clyde, Scot ish Radio Holdings, in the early
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1990s and Chair from 1996 to 2005. He was STV Political Editor in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and then launched Radio Clyde – the fi rst UK commercial station outside London – where he was Managing Director for 23 years. Last year’s recipient of the Lifetime
Achievement Award, John M Watson OBE, presented the trophy to the new recipient and also gave a major donation of £100,000 to Glasgow Chamber of Commerce. T e charity prize draw raised over £7,000,
which was split between Children in Need and T e Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice. Stuart Patrick, Chief Executive of Glasgow
Chamber of Commerce, said: “I’d like to thank our main sponsor, Bank of Scotland, and all of our category sponsors; City of Glasgow College, T e Albus, by Clyde Gateway, Connect, Glasgow City Council, Glasgow School for Business and Society, Glasgow
Caledonian University, Heathrow, Jobs & Business Glasgow, ScotRail, Scot ish Water, Scot ishPower and our media partner Evening Times for helping to make the Glasgow Business Awards 2015 such a success. “T e variety of winners is a testament to
Glasgow’s thriving economy. Across all sectors, businesses in Glasgow have helped make these awards a major success, with fi nalists from retail, hospitality, life sciences, transport and media. T is refl ects the strength, confi dence and diversity of the city’s business community.” Glasgow Chamber would also like to thank
MBM Print and Supply Chain Solutions for printing the tickets and programmes, which were designed by Connect, and Flowers in the City for the beautiful fl oral table decorations. T e AV provided by VisionEvents gave a real ‘wow’ factor and Great Scot Photography ensured the evening’s success was recorded.
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