Scores of small businesses are hoping to walk away with a 拢20K prize package being offered by Intuit QuickBooks 鈥 but your company could still be in with a chance to win as the final days of the competition draw to a close.
鈥 and world鈥檚 number one online accounting software provider 鈥 are looking for the West Midlands鈥 most entrepreneurial and original small businesses to win the Small Business Big Success competition being run in with the Birmingham Post and Mail.
Local business heroes, from butchers to builders and hairdressers to IT consultants, who work hard day in, day out to achieve success in the second year of the popular contest are all in with a chance to walk away with the prize 鈥 拢10,000 in cash, advertising and Aston Villa prizes.
Entries must be received before 11.59pm on Monday, February 29.
The winner will be announced at an awards evening held on March 22 at .
The evening will include a full sit-down dinner as well as a special Q&A panel with distinguished leaders from Aston Villa Football Club.
Mike Williams, Intuit Director of Finance, Europe, said: 鈥淲e鈥檝e been hugely impressed with the standard of entries we鈥檝e received so far and the wide variety of businesses that we鈥檝e heard from.
鈥淔rom hairdressers to painters & decorators, artists to travel agents, we鈥檝e been truly inspired by the stories of success that have already flooded in.
鈥淚t鈥檚 clear that the West Midlands is a region brimming full of hardworking and passionate small business owners achieving success every single day. There鈥檚 still time to enter if you haven鈥檛 yet had the chance 鈥 whatever you鈥檙e most proud of, we want to hear from you!鈥
Last year鈥檚 winner was Boo Boo Coffee on Harborne High Street which impressed judges with its traditional family ethos and good service.
Co-owner Keon Heidarinia said: 鈥淲inning the competition has had a major impact on our business and the prize package has really helped us push things forward. We鈥檝e been able to start delivering an evening trade, which has helped us to grow the business.
鈥淭he prize also helped us to fund training for all our junior staff members, making them experts on coffee ingredients, methods, treatments
and techniques 鈥 skills they can take with them anywhere in the world.
鈥淲e weren鈥檛 the highest profile or most profitable business in the competition but the judges clearly liked our story.
鈥淪o I鈥檇 advise any small business owner thinking of entering to get their entry in now for the chance to make their business bigger and better this year!鈥
Businesses who wish to enter should visit .
Intuit QuickBooks want to read about your biggest success story and how you want to develop their business in 2016.
Entries need to be received before 11.59pm on Monday, February 29.
Entrants must be a legal resident or 海角视频 citizen, and be 16 years or older.
They must own a small business, defined by having 50 or fewer full-time employees, and registered with HMRC.
Entrants must either be the small business owner or an employee, submitting with the permission of the owner.
Their business must be based in the West Midlands county (comprising Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Solihull, Walsall and Sandwell), Staffordshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire or Warwickshire.
The winner will then be selected by a panel of judges including Mike Williams, Director of Finance at Intuit, Tom Fox, CEO at Aston Villa Football Club, Graeme Brown, Head of Business, Birmingham Post and Mail and Saqib Bhatti, President of the Asian Business Chamber of Commerce.
The winner will be announced at the gala dinner at Villa Park on 22 March.
