Excellence in Business Awards 2010: Spirit of enterprise alive and well in region

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Young entrepreneur of the year

Farnaz Khan

Farnaz Khan is the founder of Bradford-based eResponse Media, a digital marketing agency which collects consumer information.

A 30-year-old mother

of four, she is a

proud Yorkshire businesswoman who wants to put Bradford on the map.

Anna Longthorp

Anna Longthorp, 27, set up Anna's Happy Trotters in Howden, North Yorkshire, two years ago. She buys pigs directly from her family's farm and sells at a fixed rate to butchers. She is the fourth generation of her family to enter farming.

SME Manufacturer of the Year

Harvard Engineering

Harvard Engineering is a specialist in the commercial and domestic lighting industry, based in Leeds. Harvard won the Innovation category in last year's awards.

Surgical Innovations

Surgical Innovations is a Leeds-based medical device specialist. The company's products are mostly used in obesity surgery, including procedures to fit gastric bands or to undertake bypass surgery.

Innovation of the Year

Hainsworth

Hainsworth, of Pudsey, is well known for its snooker cloth and military fabric but has diversified to offer a choice of woollen coffins and caskets as an environmentally friendly alternative to the conventional wood coffin.

Joseph Rhodes

Joseph Rhodes, based in Wakefield, designs and manufactures machines to form low density, high strength alloys for use by aerospace companiessuch as BAE Systems and Rolls Royce.

Exporter of the Year

Pipeline Engineering

Pipeline Engineering, of Richmond, develops and supplies specialist pipeline pigging systems to clean and improve the flow in oil and gas pipelines onshore and offshore worldwide.

It is a market leader in this field.

Sheffield Forgemasters

Sheffield Forgemasters, established 200 years ago, is the world's largest independently owned forgemaster, specialising in heavy steel forgings and steel castings as well as stocking steel ingot

and bar.

Young Business

Anna's Happy Trotters

Anna's Happy Trotters was established by Anna Longthorp in 2008. It sells free range Yorkshire pork direct to its customers. Her pigs meet all standards laid down by the RSPCA's Freedom Foods assurance scheme.

Bag It Don't Bin It

The company produces eco-friendly branded cloth bags, made by Fair Trade-registered factories in India and printed in Sheffield. Founder

Julia Gash's customers include Harvey Nichols, Jimmy Choo, Waterstone's, Liberty and the British Museum.

Best Company to Work For

Create

Create is a Leeds-based social enterprise. The not-for-profit company provides training and employment opportunities for homeless people in its outside catering, retail and caf businesses.

Morrisons

Morrisons employs 134,000 people, including 25,000 in Yorkshire. In 2009, it launched a retail training academy which has so far trained more than 20,000 employees. It has ambitious growth plans.

Companies with a turnover up to 10m

Brandon Medical

Brandon Medical, of Leeds, manufactures operating theatre lights, medical AV systems, video and emergency power systems for healthcare organisations.

Keelham Hall Farm Shop

Keelham Hall Farm Shop has again been shortlisted. The Bradford-based farm shop offers an out-of-town shopping experience with local fare on every shelf.

Companies with a turnover between 10m-50m

Davy Markham

Davy Markham is an engineering firm based in Sheffield. Founded 180 years ago, it designs and manufactures complex heavy engineering components.

World Events

This management agency delivers live international events. Based in Cleckheaton, last year it organised more than 330 events in 40 countries.

Companies with a turnover above 50m

Morrisons

Morrisons is one of Yorkshire's major companies. The Bradford-based business is Britain's second-biggest fresh food manufacturer.

Pace

Pace, based in Saltaire, develops digital TV technologies for the payTV industry and was recently recognised as the world's largest developer of digital set-top box technology.