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Leading Multicultural Businesses Honoured at ABF Tiger Awards 2009
On Saturday 21st November, over 500 multicultural businesses from across the region gathered at the Asian Business Federation’s 2009 Tiger Awards to recognise the outstanding achievements of this year’s winners. In all, seven North West companies were honoured at the ceremony, which was sponsored by HSBC and took place at the Hilton Hotel in Manchester.

An audience of nearly five hundred watched the presentations, which were led by broadcast journalist Reham Khan and public service modernisation specialist, Sir Bill Taylor.

The seven award category winners were:

  • Business of the Year – Shazan Foods. (Award sponsored by Business Link NW).

  • Business Personality of the Year – Ms Elaine Owen, Designated Associates & Designated Design (Award sponsored by Notion Ltd).

  • New Business Start-Up of the Year – HBS Healthcare and HBS Pharmacy. (Award sponsored Enterprise4All NW ).

  • Creative, Digital & New Media Award – Mr Mohammed Isap, MPG. (Award sponsored by UCLan).

  • Outstanding Woman In Business Award – Ms Claire Moore, Certain Curtain Theatre Company. (Award sponsored by EMBF NW).

    • Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award – Mr Waheed Rahman, Bilal Poultry Products. (Award sponsored by Lancashire Constabulary).
  • International Company of the Year – Heena Fashions. (Award sponsored by HSBC).


    • The guest speakers included Mark Tilleray, Commercial Director of HSBC, who spoke about “Collective Responsibility to Address the Downturn” and Sue Stockdale of Notion Coaching, whose presentation was entitled “Secrets of Successful Leadership and Releasing the Workforce Potential.” The key note speaker was Dr Spinder Dhaliwal, author of the Asian Rich List, who highlighted the economic contribution made by BME businesses in her presentation “Learning from the Asian Phenomenon.”

    In his ABF Chairman’s welcome, Tahir Mohsan said: “The Tiger Awards celebrate not only the diversity of the region in terms of ethnicity, culture and heritage but also the entrepreneurial passion and spirit shown by the region’s business men and women. As this year’s award nominations demonstrate, we are seeing a greater number of female entrepreneurs and young people developing innovative business ideas and taking on the enterprise journey.

    “ABF members are also developing business ideas in more non-traditional sectors such as pharmaceuticals, creative & media, advanced manufacturing and professional services. This is encouraging to see and makes me hopeful for a better, stronger future that will enable a more inclusive, cohesive society complemented by a strong stable enterprise base. This will open up further education and employment opportunities within the communities that make up our towns and cities. That’s the North West we want to create.”

    Mr Mohsan concluded by thanking the award sponsors and congratulating all the award nominees for their passion and achievements.

    More information can be found on the Tiger awards website.
     
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