This award is open to businesses demonstrating good ideas, careful planning and a determination to succeed and produce a thriving business. They are able to overcome challenges and have a clear marketing and development strategy for future expansion.

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 for a business in the community that contributes to sustainable development 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 any Hertfordshire-based company whose products are produced in the county. They demonstrate a passion for working with and supporting other businesses in Hertfordshire also, by sourcing locally.

This award is for a company distributing goods/services from Hertfordshire to other markets. They demonstrate expertise in exporting commercial quantities of goods, globally. This award is open to a company based in Hertfordshire but that successfully conducts business both internationally and locally. They demonstrate good skills, processes and relationships to ensure a consistent level of service is delivered worldwide.

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 open to estate agents, letting agents, landlords, property maintenance, property management, building trade, architects, quantity surveyors.

This award is open to banks, solicitors, lawyers, licensed conveyancers, will writers, finance and leasing companies, accountants, IFA’s, mortgage brokers, factors, loan companies, insolvency practitioners and general insurance brokerage services.

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

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 recruitment, HR, training providers, coaching, mentoring, Health & Safety benefit providers, incentive providers.

This award is open to pubs, hotels, restaurants, golf clubs, health clubs, spas, gyms, coffee shops, other general leisure facilities.