This Award will be made to a retailer delivering its business plan objectives and demonstrating improved business performance as a result.

The judges will be looking for:

• A retailer who has a firm understanding of how to maximise all retail opportunities.
• A retailer who can demonstrate success in achieving excellence through the delivery of top line customer service.
• A retailer that is actively improving customer service orientation of staff through training and development.

Entry to this category is open to all retailers with a shop front and an address in the Salisbury District.

This Award will be presented to a dynamic company which can demonstrate excellence in developing what they offer from their business, to other businesses.

The judges will be looking for:

• A company which can demonstrate success in driving forward its business plan.
• A company that invests in its workforce.
• A company which can demonstrate a clear relationship between its marketing strategy and the development of the business.
• How the businesses contributes to the local community.
• A clear plan for future growth.

Entry to this category is open to all organisations with an address in South Wiltshire.

This Award will be made to the business that can demonstrate how it goes the extra mile to deliver an exceptional service to the all important tourism industry.

The judges will be looking for:

• A business that can demonstrate success in driving forward its business plan.
• A business that invests time in its workforce.
• A clear relationship between its marketing and business development.
• Working towards Green accreditation (GTBS).
• DDA - Access all (Disability awareness).
• Relationship Building - working with other businesses with an operating address in the Salisbury District.

Entry to this category is open to all tourism related businesses with an address in the Salisbury District.

This Award will be presented to a dynamic professional company who can demonstrate excellence in developing their business.

The judges will be looking for:

• A company which can demonstrate success in driving forward its business plan.
• A company that invests in its workforce.
• A company which can demonstrate a clear relationship between its marketing strategy and the development of the business.
• How the business contributes to the local community.
• A clear plan for future growth.

Entry to this category is open to all organisations with an operating address within the Salisbury District.

This Award will recognise the best of South Wiltshires new companies. The winner of this category will be clearly demonstrating the use of good ideas, careful planning and a determination to succeed to produce a thriving new business. To be eligible for this Award, businesses should not have been trading for more than 12 months from 1st March 2007.

The judges will be looking for:

• A company which has achieved success within the 12 months of trading.
• Demonstration of success in overcoming challenges to develop the business.
• A company which can demonstrate a clear relationship between its marketing strategy and the development of the business.
• A clear strategy for future expansion of the business.

Entry to this category is open to all organisations with an operating address in the Salisbury District. Your organisation should not have been trading for more than 12 months from 1st March 2007.

Businesses of all types have a crucial role to play in developing innovative environmental practices that help conserve natural resources and reduce its impact on the environment. To win an environmental award will be recognition of your success in this key business area and may well provide the winning organisation with an edge over the competitors.

The judges will be looking for evidence of:

• A strong commitment to putting environmental issues at the centre of the business agenda
• The embedding of a strong environmental ethos within the organisation.
• Evidence that strategies are in place and being acted upon to reduce waste.
• The encouragement of staff to consider environmental issues in their day to day activities.
• A sustainable long term business model which gives due regard to the physical environment as well as the financial.

Entry to this category is open to all organisations with an operating address in Salisbury District

This Award recognises the importance businesses are placing on the personal development of staff at all levels. Inline with government policy the successful company will demonstrate the benefits of starting with the basics when planning the training and development of its workforce.

The judges will be looking for:

• Companies who have worked to address the Numeracy and Literacy deficit which exists within the UK work force, in addition to vocational skills.
• A clear indication of the methods used to assess the training and development needs of the workforce.
• A company which has a clear strategy on supporting and motivating employees to undertake training and development.

Entry to this category is open to all organisations with an address in the Salisbury District.