Award categories
Each category is looking for winners

This award is open to accountants, bookkeepers, tax advisers, VAT specialists and companies providing accountancy software and or providing secretarial or support services.

This award is open to any apprenticeship scheme that provides excellent job training, ensuring the apprentice becomes a master of their trade. Success is measured in the number of apprentices becoming a valued employee.

This award is for a business that contributes to sustainable development in the community and society, by delivering economic, social and environmental benefits. This award is open to supporting charities, not for profit, staff provision, social and environmental concerns, engagement with the local community, volunteer work, supporting schools and colleges.

This award is open to recruitment, HR, training providers, coaching, mentoring, Health & Safety benefit providers, incentive providers.

This award is available to any business that can demonstrate excellence in entrepreneurship.

This award is for a commercial organisation in which decision-making is influenced by multiple generations of a family (blood-line or marriage) and who are closely aligned with the company through leadership or ownership.

This award is open to IFAs, banks, finance and leasing companies, mortgage brokers, insurance brokerage services, and companies providing financial software.

This award is open to companies providing legal services such as solicitors, lawyers, licensed conveyancers and will writers.

This award is open to marketing specialists, PR, graphic design, printing, social media, digital marketing, web design, digital agency, sign writers, exhibition companies, copywriting, advertising.

The award is open to all businesses that can demonstrate either ongoing or completed research. It is also open to companies that can demonstrate innovation within their business. This can be processes, products, services. The category is broad.

This Award is open to any organisation aligned to the provision of Social Media services across all or just some social media platforms.

This Award is open to any organisation focused on the delivery of Social Value whether a business promoting their commitment to the provision of Social Value or organisations like Charities and not for profit organisations providing Social Value.

This award is open to businesses that have reduced or removed the harmful impact that products and/or services have on the environment.

This award is open to I.T. support, desktop support, help desk, software development, app development, cloud computing, data and server centres, network management, network monitoring, content and security, installations, service, disaster recovery, backup and data services.

This award is open to Hertfordshire-based businesses that provide professional services to SMEs, such as business consultancy, quality management systems, infrastructure and operations management, sales force development, facilities management, property services (architects, valuers and quantity surveyors), property/site and/or office plant maintenance, car hire, business travel management, language translation, delivery/freight services, catering, cleaning, waste and recycling, etc.

This award is open to any business that has a turnover in excess of £3m. They should have a clear marketing and development strategy for future expansion and demonstrate exceptional financial returns, strong growth, innovation strategies, and market prominence in their sector.

This award is open to any Hertfordshire-based company whose products are produced in the county. They demonstrate a passion for working-with and supporting other businesses in Hertfordshire, by sourcing locally.

This Award is open to any Hertfordshire based business that is under 3 years old and has demonstrated rapid growth since starting up. They should have a clear marketing plan and development strategy that demonstrates where they are headed in the future.

This award is open to any business that has a turnover of up to £3m. They should have a clear marketing and development strategy for future expansion and demonstrate exceptional financial returns, strong growth, innovation strategies, and market prominence in their sector.

This Award is open to any Hertfordshire business that has during the Awards process and in the opinion of Judges, demonstrated a particular business skill or competence in any other Award category that separates the applicant from the rest of the Nominees.

This award is not directly entered but selected from the finalists, by the judges. It recognises the company who excelled in every part of the awards criteria and demonstrated good ideas, careful planning and a determination to succeed and produce a thriving business.