Rural family business award launched
The Midlands' only awards ceremony for family businesses and owners has introduced a new category for rural family businesses.
The 2011 Midlands Family Business Awards, for which Insider is media partner, is launching the Best Rural Family Business award.
The new category is one of ten up for grabs at the ceremony, to be held later this year.
Category sponsor is regional law firm Roythornes, which has offices in Spalding and Nottingham.
Vember Mortlock, partner and head of agriculture at Roythornes, said: "Rural family businesses play a critical role in the region's economy and the community in which they are based.
"They provide employment and protect some of our most precious landscapes, at the same time as running modern businesses which have to make a profit and continually face the same commercial pressures as those in any other sector."
Additional category sponsors include accountancy firm Smith Cooper - headline title sponsor of this year's awards - Aviva, Barclays, Key Personnel, Positive Outcomes, ProspectIP, PwC and Unum.
