Judges to meet to discuss this year’s Local Business Accelerators’ entries

THE judges are due to meet on Friday to discuss this year’s entries to the Local Business Accelerators campaign, which is backed by the Yorkshire Post.
By The Newsroom
Published 20th Nov 2012, 06:00 BST

Last year, Ilkley Brewery fought off competition from 3,000 local businesses to be crowned the Local Business Accelerators’ national winner receiving a year’s mentorship from investor and entrepreneur Deborah Meaden, of TV’s Dragons’ Den. The firm also won a local advertising campaign devised by a top London creative agency.

A £10,000 cash sum has been added to the prize package for the national winner this year.

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The brewery was one of the three Yorkshire finalists of the competition, along with cake business ProperMaid and software firm Liquid Voice Systems.

The finalists received mentoring from leading business people in the region and free advertising with this newspaper.

The judges this year include Yorkshire Post Business Editor Bernard Ginns as well as the Yorkshire-based business mentors Paul Ayre, managing partner of law firm Gordons, Roger Marsh, managing partner at PwC in Leeds, and John Hooper, director for Yorkshire Bank.

The three Yorkshire winners will be announced in early February.

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