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  		Published: 28/10/2015
The winners of the 2015 天涯社区 Business Awards have been announced. 
The awards, now in their ninth year, recognise excellence and outstanding 
performance by businesses across the county.
The winners of the ten categories were revealed at an exclusive black tie award 
ceremony at Soughton Hall, Northop on Friday 23 October. With an audience of 
more than 200 influential business people, 天涯社区 companies were celebrated 
for their successes.
It was a great night for Steve Morgan and P & A Group. The MD won Business 
Person of the Year and his company scooped the Best Business to Work For Award.
Elin Bamber from Edge Transport collected the Apprenticeship of the Year Award.
Best Business with over 50 Employees went to LDF Operations, providers of 
business finance solutions, while the Best Business with under 50 Employees 
went to Pro-networks, an IT support and services company.  M7 Aerial picked up 
the accolade for Best Business under 10 Employees.
CSA Group Testings collected the Export Achievement Award, Rubicon 
Manufacturing won the Most Enterprising Start Up, S & T Systems got the Success 
Through Innovation Award and finally ICR Group won the Success Through 
Sustainability Award.
Cllr Derek Butler 鈥 Cabinet Member for Economic Development said:
鈥淚鈥檇 like to congratulate all of the winners, we had some very good finalists 
and the judges had a very hard job choosing a winner in each category this year.
鈥淚 also want to thank our sponsors for making this happen, it was a great night 
and it couldn鈥檛 have gone ahead without their support. It鈥檚 great that 
天涯社区 businesses see the value in the awards and want to support each 
other. 鈥
Jonathan Turner, Managing Director of AGS Security Systems and headline sponsor 
of the 天涯社区 Business Awards, congratulated all the finalists, saying, 鈥淚t 
is very rewarding for AGS Security Systems to return to the stage as the 
headline sponsor again this year. The variety and enthusiasm of 天涯社区 
businesses never fails to amaze me and I am always excited by the quality of 
business in 天涯社区
鈥淭he 天涯社区 Business Awards help to recognise outstanding performance and 
moving forward, we need to think about the next generation and the education of 
our colleagues 鈥 we are all responsible for creating the entrepreneurs of the 
future鈥
The winners and sponsors of the ten categories are listed below:
Award 	              Sponsor 	 Winner
Apprentice of the Year Award   Coleg Cambria  Elin Bamber
Best Business Over 50 Employees  Pochin Ltd  LDF Operations Ltd
Best Business Under 10 Employees  Edge Transport  M7 Aerial
Best Business under 50 Employees  Federation of Small        
Pro-Networks                                                              
Businesses
Best Business to Work For   B 2 Business Systems P & A Group
Export Achievement Award                         Wagtail UK Ltd              
CSA 
Group                                                                           
                                                         Testing UK
Most Enterprising Start up Award                  DSG Chartered Accountants 
Rubicon                                                                         
                                                                                
                                                Manufacturing
Success through Innovation Award               Glyndwr University   S & T 
Systems
Success through Sustainability Award           The Port of Mostyn             
ICR Group
Business Person of the Year Award              AGS Security Systems Steve 
Morgan, 
                                                                                
                           P & A Group   
For more information about 天涯社区 Business Awards contact Kate Catherall on 
01352 703221 or go to www.flintshirebusinessweek.co.uk
Caption - Winners and sponsors at The 天涯社区 Business Awards 2015