Date: Tue 27th March, 2007
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The winners of this year's 42 under 42 awards, revealed at a dinner at the Royal Armouries in March, showed the great range of entrepreneurs operating in Yorkshire.
From the traditional side of business there was Tom Allchurch, chief executive of open-cast mining company ATH Resources and winner of the overall Entrepreneur of the Year award.
Meanwhile, at the opposite extreme, Rahul Mehra of Red Embedded Technology, which designed the software for, among others, BT's Total Broadband product, won the award for Best Innovation. The Best International Business award went to Gavin Wheeldon from Huddersfield-based translation agency Applied Language Solutions. As befits an international business, Wheeldon was not there to pick up the award, as he was flying back from opening his eighth office in Hong Kong. But marketing manager Richard Michie was there to pick it up on his behalf.
The award for Best Start-Up went to Stephanie France, whose office interiors business has already made its first acquisition – of a company nearly four times its size – in just two years of existence. And the award for Best Practitioner went to Joanne Williams, development director at Malton-based Redworth Construction.