The Association of Scottish Business Women is delighted to announce the Winners for the 2021 ASB National Business Awards.
This award is for businesses that have experienced exceptional growth in sales, profit, market share or employment.
Michelle Milnes, Property Studios Ltd
Highly Commended: Wendy Maltman, The Malting House
This award is for start-up businesses that have been trading up to two years in any business sector.
Bronwyn Jenkins-Deas, Isle of Cumbrae Distillers
Highly Commended: Jillian Mullen, The Nectary
This award recognises the qualities of a successful woman in a profession who makes a significant individual contribution to support her organisation to deliver superior performance.
Louise Cameron, ICTS
Highly Commended: Michelle Milnes, Property Studios Ltd
This award is for those fabulous businesswomen out there that are the rising stars, the movers and shakers, and the ones to watch. You know you will be reading about them in the months and years ahead.
Hannah Lloyd, GLM Architects GLM Building Surveyors, Architects, Project Managers
Highly Commended: Gin Lalli, Solution Focused Therapy
Championing the big contribution family firms make to business ecosystem, this category seeks to reward Scotland’s top family-run SME with less than 100 employees.
Karen Somerville, Angel Share Glass
Going solo is tough and we want to celebrate the tenacity and determination of all the solopreneurs and self employed businesswomen on their entrepreneurial journey.
Ruth Micallef, Eating Disorder Edinburgh
Introduced by the Association of Scottish Businesswomen (ASB) in 2003, entrants for this award, are selected and endorsed as the nomination by their affiliate groups.
Lorraine May Aburrow, Feis Rois Ltd
Highly Commended: Lynn McMurray, The Seasonal Touch
For the entrepreneurs who have started their business at 30 years of age and under.
Ruth Micallef, Eating Disorder Edinburgh
This award is designed to support all businesswomen, businesses or organisations who feel they do not fall into the other categories and therefore are often unable to apply and consequently are overlooked, despite their brilliance!
Emma Armstrong, B-able Business Services Ltd
This award recognises and rewards the contribution of an affiliated group to the overall success of the businesswomen throughout Scotland.
Moray Business Women
This award is for those women who are inspirational at a national level.
Carolyn Currie, Women's Enterprise Scotland
This award is for those women who are inspirational within their community.
Tamara Taylor, Katsize
We are most grateful to our panel of independent judges who have deliberated over the application forms and interviewed our finalists:
Alison Henderson, CEO, Dundee & Angus Chamber of Commerce
Carolyn Currie, CEO Women’s Enterprise Scotland; Operators of the Women’s Business Centre
Donald Forsyth, Partner, Safferry Champness and IOD H&I
Gillian Fleming, CEO & Founder, Mint Ventures
Jane Shepherd, Chartered Planning Consultant/Director
Jeanette Stevenston, Head of Education, Training and Assessment, Royal Collage of Physicians of Edinburgh
Judith Thurlow, Director, Seasgair Handpicked Lodges
Julie Hall
Kim Moran-Hogg, Head of Scotland & NI Regional Business, Vodafone Business
Liz Pirrie, Chief Operating Officer
Maggie Gorman, Business Gateway and Development Director, Ceteris
Marie & Stephen Smith, Smith Wild Photo
Margarette Bryan, Retail Business Mentor
Russell Dalgleish, Managing Partner, Exolta and Chair, Scottish Business Network
Sheryl Newman, CEO, Appetitie for Business
Steve Turner, Commercial Director, Cloud Cover IT
Sylvia Baldock