Smith Cooper to sponsor Midlands Family Business Awards
Midlands’ accountancy firm and business adviser Smith Cooper has been announced as the headline title sponsor of this year’s Midlands Family Business Awards. Insider is the media partner of the event.
Aviva, Barclays, Roythornes and Positive Outcomes are each also confirmed as individual category sponsors for the 2011 awards. The Children’s Society, The Willow Foundation and The Venture Foundation have each been named as beneficiaries for the second year.
Details of the 2011 awards’ ten categories, including the overall Midlands Family Business of the Year title award and the full portfolio of sponsors, are to be unveiled in April at the awards’ launch events in Nottingham and Birmingham.
The ceremony is underwritten by Nottingham insurance and financial advisory firm The Wilson Organisation, itself a third generation family business.
Annabel Prow, chief executive officer of the Wilson Organisation, said: “The contribution family businesses make to both the regional and national economy is all too often underestimated. Independent surveys indicate that family businesses account for 65 percent of private sector enterprises in the UK – that’s three million firms employing in the region of ten million people, or 42 percent of the UK’s total employed.”
