Stamford Mercury Business Awards

Guest blog by recruitment partner Karen Dykes

I was delighted to represent Anne Corder Recruitment at this week’s Stamford Mercury Business Awards.

Anne judged the Business of the Year category along with Robert Hinch from Greetham Valley Hotel, Golf and Conference Centre.

As usual the entries demonstrated perfectly the diversity of the business community in and around Stamford. They came from long established and family run firms to relatively new niche businesses making their mark both locally and nationally.

Anne and Robert spent a day visiting the short listed companies and were, as they have been every year they’ve judged the awards, incredibly impressed with the people they met. These are the entrepreneurial faces of our region who are working hard day in day out. They may be providing a service or manufacturing a product, all are creating employment and all are contributing to the economy. For all those reasons – and many more – they are to be applauded.

This year Anne and Robert just couldn’t separate two of the businesses they visited and so announced joint winners… MMT Digital and Simmons Optometrists.

While MMT Digital is at the cutting edge of web design, Simmons is a very traditional business serving the community.

MMT Digital’s success is easily seen in terms of levels of business, new clients and expanding workforce. Anne called it: “A little gem of a business now based in Rutland successfully working with very high profile clients.”

Anne and Robert were equally complimentary about Simmons. They said the couple who own and manage the business are not only technical experts in their field but commercially knowledgeable. They took over the business six years ago and since then have invested time and money in consolidating and expanding their client base.

Along with recruitment partner Nel Woolcott, I presented the awards to MMT Digital and Simmons Optometrists and it was a real honour to do so.

As usual Greetham Valley proved a wonderful venue for a very special evening of celebration marking some impressive achievements by the business community.