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Published: 28/10/2015

The winners of the 2015 Flintshire Business Awards have been announced. The awards, now in their ninth year, recognise excellence and outstanding performance by businesses across the county. The winners of the ten categories were revealed at an exclusive black tie award ceremony at Soughton Hall, Northop on Friday 23 October. With an audience of more than 200 influential business people, Flintshire companies were celebrated for their successes. It was a great night for Steve Morgan and P & A Group. The MD won Business Person of the Year and his company scooped the Best Business to Work For Award. Elin Bamber from Edge Transport collected the Apprenticeship of the Year Award. Best Business with over 50 Employees went to LDF Operations, providers of business finance solutions, while the Best Business with under 50 Employees went to Pro-networks, an IT support and services company. M7 Aerial picked up the accolade for Best Business under 10 Employees. CSA Group Testings collected the Export Achievement Award, Rubicon Manufacturing won the Most Enterprising Start Up, S & T Systems got the Success Through Innovation Award and finally ICR Group won the Success Through Sustainability Award. Cllr Derek Butler – Cabinet Member for Economic Development said: “I’d like to congratulate all of the winners, we had some very good finalists and the judges had a very hard job choosing a winner in each category this year. “I also want to thank our sponsors for making this happen, it was a great night and it couldn’t have gone ahead without their support. It’s great that Flintshire businesses see the value in the awards and want to support each other. “ Jonathan Turner, Managing Director of AGS Security Systems and headline sponsor of the Flintshire Business Awards, congratulated all the finalists, saying, “It is very rewarding for AGS Security Systems to return to the stage as the headline sponsor again this year. The variety and enthusiasm of Flintshire businesses never fails to amaze me and I am always excited by the quality of business in Flintshire “The Flintshire Business Awards help to recognise outstanding performance and moving forward, we need to think about the next generation and the education of our colleagues – we are all responsible for creating the entrepreneurs of the future” The winners and sponsors of the ten categories are listed below: Award Sponsor Winner Apprentice of the Year Award Coleg Cambria Elin Bamber Best Business Over 50 Employees Pochin Ltd LDF Operations Ltd Best Business Under 10 Employees Edge Transport M7 Aerial Best Business under 50 Employees Federation of Small Pro-Networks Businesses Best Business to Work For B 2 Business Systems P & A Group Export Achievement Award Wagtail UK Ltd CSA Group Testing UK Most Enterprising Start up Award DSG Chartered Accountants Rubicon Manufacturing Success through Innovation Award Glyndwr University S & T Systems Success through Sustainability Award The Port of Mostyn ICR Group Business Person of the Year Award AGS Security Systems Steve Morgan, P & A Group For more information about Flintshire Business Awards contact Kate Catherall on 01352 703221 or go to www.flintshirebusinessweek.co.uk Caption - Winners and sponsors at The Flintshire Business Awards 2015