Showcasing the very best of the best – that is what the Citizen and Gloucestershire Echo Business Awards are all about.

Here are just some of the testimonials paid to our ceremony last year:

"Thank you for an excellent evening at the Business Awards. It was a spectacular event and yourmedia group does a wonderful job in heralding the business enterprise of the county."
- Henry Elwes, Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire

"Congratulations once again on what has undoubtedly become the high point of the county's business year."
- Edward Gillespie, managing director Cheltenham Racecourse

"You should congratulate yourselves on the success of the evening and the fantastic support that it gets from the business community. My team and I felt privileged to be a part of the event and we shall definitely enter again in the future."
- Simon Daws, The Royal Oak, Cheltenham

"The awards have become a permanent fixture in our business calendar and the caluibre of companies involved in the competition has increased each year."
- Alan Beresford, managing director Omega Selection Services