One of Scotland’s longest running awards, the Lanarkshire Business Excellence Awards, recognise and celebrate the success and achievements of local businesses.

Applications are open to all Lanarkshire businesses and social enterprises across all sectors and are free to enter. Companies can apply for up to two of the ten categories.

The winner of the 2022 Lanarkshire’s Best Business (11-50 employees) Award was Equi’s Ice Cream.

Alex Equi, Marketing Executive at Equi’s Ice Cream, said: “Here at Equi’s Ice Cream we were all completely honoured and so excited when we won Lanarkshire’s Best Business 2022.

“Having been part of the Lanarkshire community since 1922 when we started in Hamilton making ice cream in a small back kitchen to our now purpose-built brand-new factory in Rutherglen, it is really important to us to showcase our contributions to our local area and this award has been a great way of doing this for us.”

The categories are:

• Lanarkshire’s Best Business (0-10 employees) – sponsored by Clyde Gateway
• Lanarkshire’s Best Business (11-50 employees) – sponsorship still available
• Lanarkshire’s Best Business (51 employees or more) – sponsored by UKSE
• Lanarkshire’s Best New Business – sponsored by Business Gateway Lanarkshire
• Lanarkshire’s Community Impact Award – sponsored by Morgan Sindall and Lovell Homes
• Lanarkshire’s Apprentice of the Year– sponsored by North Lanarkshire’s Working and South Lanarkshire Works
• Lanarkshire Innovation in Business Award – sponsored by Commsworld
• Lanarkshire Food & Drink Award – sponsored by DYW Lanarkshire
• Lanarkshire Green Business Award – sponsored by Procast Building Contracts
• Excellence in Customer Service – sponsorship still available

The closing date for all applications is Wednesday 26 April. For details of all categories and how to apply visit the Business Awards website.

Winners will be announced at the awards dinner at Motherwell Concert Hall on Friday 1 September. Tickets go on sale in May.

Anyone interested in the remaining sponsorship opportunities, please email the Awards Team.