BCSG proud to be shortlisted for the Innovation of the Year award at the Nectar Small Business Awards 2012
BCSG is just weeks away from hearing whether it has won the accolade of Innovation of the Year, having been shortlisted for the award by a panel of experts including leading businesswoman and star of BBC1’s The Apprentice, Karren Brady and Marketing Director at Nectar, James Frost.
The Nectar Small Business Awards is an annual national competition recognising the success and hard work going on in the UK small business community. If successful, BCSG will win a seat at the Nectar Business Small Business Awards roundtable event on September 12th, £2,000 cash and 50,000 Nectar points.
BCSG entered its product ‘MyBusinessWorks’ into the category; an easy to use online package for Barclays business customers comprising five market leading business management applications worth over £2,200 within a single low cost monthly subscription of less than £20. This unique package was developed after BCSG identified that many small business owners cannot afford the individual purchase of market leading business management applications, despite benefiting greatly from the support they provide in facing the challenges of running a business.
BCSG Managing Director John Davis comments: “Our mission statement is to help small businesses around the world to survive and succeed, and being shortlisted for the Innovation of the Year Award recognises the difference we’ve made in delivering innovative products and services at great prices to SMEs. We are very proud of the success we’ve achieved over the past 18 months with MyBusinessWorks and winning this award would make us prouder still.”
James Frost, Marketing Director at Nectar says: “We saw a particularly high standard of entries for the Innovation of the Year category of the Nectar Business Small Business Awards, which is great, particularly as this was the first year for this category in the awards. We were looking for those businesses that had excelled in innovation, from products, to ways of working and beyond. We wish all the shortlisted candidates, including BCSG, the best of luck.”
For full information on the awards please visit: www.nectar.com/business-sba2012/index.rnectar
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About BCSG
BCSG creates, distributes and supports value adding products and services to small businesses through financial institutions. BCSG solutions help more than 150,000 small businesses survive and succeed, while simultaneously providing financial institutions with opportunities to differentiate their proposition, enhance customer loyalty and grow wallet share. For more information please visit: www.bcsg.com
About Nectar Business and the Small Business Awards
The Nectar Business Small Business Awards are now in its fourth year, judging small business success across six categories:
- Small Business of the Year
- Business Achiever The Year
- Best Use of Technology
- Innovation of the Year
- International Trader of the Year
- Contribution to the Community Award
The Contribution to the Community Award is open to a public vote via the Nectar Business Facebook page. All other categories are judged by The Nectar Business judging panel. Including:
- Leading business woman and star of BBC1’s The Apprentice, Karren Brady
- Nectar Business Small Business of the Year 2011: Entrepreneur of the Year and CEO of Swimovate, Lisa Irlam
- Business journalist, Guy Clapperton
- Nectar Business Marketing Director, James Frost
