Are you a Company of the Year? Let’s find out:

• Are you so unique that your market is a different place since you set foot in it?
• Are you a team passionate enough to be undeniably committed to your goals (even when it gets tough)?
• Are you smart enough to never rest on your laurels and always keep innovating?
• Are you a disruptor? A game-changer? Someone convinced that you could always change things to the better?
• Do you know how to care for your business, your product, and your customers equally?
• Do you truly, passionately have the ambition to grow?

In other words: are you extraordinary? We’re looking for the UK’s world-class mid-sized businesses at the Growing Business Awards 2012, and are now calling for nominations for one of our most essential categories: Company of the Year.

This year, the winner of the 2012 Company of the Year will gain access to the UK’s most influential business network, via automatic CBI membership. Not to forget a high-performance day at the astonishingly innovative McLaren Racing that will help you drive your business to growth faster than a Formula 1 car hits the road, and the vast amount of press coverage and prestige our winners have been entering the Growing Business Awards for since 1999.

You will be stepping in the footsteps of some of Britain’s greatest home-grown businesses. Previous Company of the Year winners include the likes of Wolfson Microelectronics, AES Engineering, King of Shaves, LOVEFiLM, Greenergy International, and Ecotricity.

This year, it might just be you. Nominations are now open.

Whether you’d like to nominate your company – or someone you know – or not, join us, the UK’s most active network of high-growth business owners, once again in a night of celebration of excellence, ambition, and true entrepreneurship at the Growing Business Awards 2012 and meet the champions of tomorrow.

Nominations are now open for the 2012 Growing Business Awards, in association with Lloyds Bank. We’re looking for entries from “future champion” businesses and individuals across ten categories. Created by Real Business and the CBI, the Growing Business Awards are the most established recognition of UK entrepreneurial achievement. 

The awards are also supported by Land Rover, the Financial Mail, Spring Law, Cass Business School, Your Business Your Future, Business Voice, Professional Engineering, and bdaily. As well as huge prestige and coverage, a group of successful candidates will also be invited to an exclusive “high-performance day” at McLaren Racing, as well as joining a delegation at the 2012 CBI Annual Conference. Nominations close on September 21.

Find out more about the Growing Business Awards online, or contact us via gba@caspianmedia.com or by phone on 0207 045 7600.