Business Awards 2009: 'Cherry on the cake' for family firm - Amps Fine Wines
PHILIP Amps, managing director of Amps Fine Wines, was "chuffed to bits" when he heard that his firm had won the Small Business of the Year Award. The awards judges were most impressed by this category.
PHILIP Amps, managing director of Amps Fine Wines, was "chuffed to bits" when he heard that his firm had won the Small Business of the Year Award. The awards judges were most impressed by this category.For Philip and his staff, it was the "cherry on top of a very big cake." This year the company has won three national competitions, each of which was open to more than 500 independent wine merchants.
In addition, the independent family-run business based in Oundle has enjoyed a growth in turnover this year, a significant achievement for the industry in the current economic climate.
Philip truly believes that the retention of excellent staff is core to the success of the business, together with establishing solid relationships to all those they serve.
Amps Fine Wines has many added value services that strengthen the partnership between it and and its customers, for example in-house wine courses and a wine club.
Taking on more than 30 new commercial accounts and adding more than 520 retail customers to its database demonstrates how successful the past year has been.
With a history since 1887, Amps became solely a wine and spirits merchant in 1993.
Small Business of the Year Award, sponsored by the Peterborough City Marketing Campaign: This award is given for exceptional performance in profitability and impact on the economy over the last 12 months. Turnover should be up to 2 million.
Business Awards 2009: A night to celebrate city business success - meet all the winners
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Highly commended:
ADVANCE Performance UK Ltd, which has been trading since 2003, is an independent, family-owned retailer that specialises in running footwear.
Managing director Samantha Hale believes the key to its success is due to strong leadership, reputation, excellent staff and company ethos which has resulted in an impressive increased profitability over the last 12 months of more than 159 per cent.
Currently operating from two stores, Advance Performance UK believes that the advice and service it offers is second to none.
Its team of 14 has doubled in size for the past two years, providing staff with ongoing training and development
following Investors in People guidelines.
TERRELLS LLP was originally founded in 1988 as Roger Terrell & Co and became a Limited Liability Partnership in 2006.
Since July 2009, the solicitors has expanded to work from three offices.
Terrells LLP has shown an increase in turnover of more than 17 per cent and profitability by almost 44 per cent compared with the previous year, a remarkable achievement.
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