Amin Vepari business finance and scale-up lead, Lancashire County Council
@twozerolancs /company/twozerolancs
Manufacturing Business Award sponsored by Barclays Finalists • Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses • Dr. Oetker • Group55 • Lantex Manufacturing Co. • Pakawaste Group • Private Label Nutrition
Winner: Dr Oetker, Leyland The judges said:
“Dr Oetker has innovated, diversified and evolved, reducing packaging and carbon footprint while recycling energy. The manufacturer is leading the way with 40 per cent of the UK’s frozen pizza market and the three most popular products.”
Not-for-profit Business Award sponsored by United Utilities
Finalists • Age Concern Central Lancashire • Fleetwood Town Community Trust • Preston Vocational Centre • The Bee Centre • The Larder • Wildwood days
Winner: Preston Vocational Centre, Preston The judges said:
Medium Business Award sponsored by Baldwins Finalists • Edison Pope • Fat Media • Private Label Nutrition • Spiroflow • Suprafilt • Tailor Made Sourcing
Winner: Spiroflow, Clitheroe The judges said:
“This Lancashire business is making the most of innovation and technology to deliver an excellent client experience with end-users being household names.”
New Business Award sponsored by Four Recruitment Finalists • Aspire UK Interiors • H&A Protection Services • Sales Geek • Sandgrown Spirits • Stortec Engineering • The Transform Hub
“With incredible results for parts of the community often overlooked, Preston Vocational Centre’s passion and innovation made them the winner in a very close contest.”
Winner: Sales Geek, Altham The judges said:
“From a standing start this new business has achieved significant growth through innovation and investment in people and technology - with more to come.”
PRESSING THE RESET BUTTON
How everything has changed in the last two months since writing my column about ‘scaling versus growing’ is fairly surreal to say the least.
In early 2020, Lancashire County Council launched the new Two Zero brand, part of the council’s scale-up service. The ambitious brand had started to build profile and resonate in the minds of business owners and influencers. A number of pilot programmes had started and were due to complete in late summer of 2020.
Then came Covid-19 and lockdown!
A key goal of Two Zero has been helping businesses achieve 20 per cent growth year on year. As Lancashire businesses have tackled the effects of coronavirus in recent weeks, growth has been on the backburner for many. However, Two Zero’s brand ethos of achieving goals, strong foundations and scaling challenges remain very relevant.
Therein lies the question for those business scaling and on the cusp of doing great things this year who have had time to digest the situation, take immediate action to mitigate some element of risk, and who are now thinking ‘what’s next’?
In the coming weeks we will be launching a new set of programmes which will be subject-led rather than sector-led. Owners of businesses on a scaleup programme pre-Covid-19 may have hit the brakes. Their aspiration to grow may have even waned.
Online Sales Award sponsored by Motionlab
Finalists • CBD One • Display Wizard • EPSL Educational Printing • Northern Industrial • Skiddle • The Modern Milkman
Winner: Northern Industrial, Blackburn The judges said:
“Great results, superb growth and innovative ideas are stemming from utilising all areas of digital – backed up by impressive evidence of growth through online activities.”
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The programmes’ refocus will aim to offer an emotional connection to business owners facing current challenges with content including; Funding for the future, Transforming your infrastructure, Mind-set review - What have you learnt?, Changing routes - setting a new direction and Preparing for the next storm.
The time to reset and drive resurgence is upon us and Lancashire County Council through Two Zero and the Boost #AskForHelp campaign will lead the way.
Think you’ve got what it takes? Find out more at
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