ENTREPRENEURIAL vision and acumen was in plentiful supply when Chipping Campden Business Forum hosted the town's second annual business awards from the town hall.

Three weeks of nominations to the forum website produced a list of 43 nominees who had to impress judges on all levels of criteria including growth potential and sustainability, impact on Chipping Campden, number of local people employed, the nominated business' example to other businesses in an ambassadorial role and its innovation and originality within its own market place as well as within the town.

More than 50 local businesses attended the awards presentation in the presence of Chipping Campden town mayor Councillor Chris Jones and Lynden Stowe, leader of Cotswold District Council.

The judges were made up of a panel of local business experts including Sig Ramseyer and Nick West while Lee Cox and Penny Lindner represented last year's winner, Robert Welch.

The 2014 category winners were: Overall Business Of The Year - Campden BRI, a company which provides technical support to 2,400 food, drinks and allied industries in 75 countries and specialises in such areas as microbiology, manufacturing and processing, analysis and testing. New Business Of The Year - Red Lemon; a branding, graphic design and creative marketing and print company situated in the high street and which also specialises in animation and video. High Street Business Of The Year - The Chef's Dozen, a high class restaurant run by Richard and Solanche Craven. Richard went to the local school and became sous chef to Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck before moving to South Africa and becoming sous chef at Le Quartier Francais.

Chipping Campden School Business Student Of The Year was named as Henry Johnson.

In their presentations, all the student nominees had to give a short presentation of the reasons why they should win, followed by a questions and answers session.

The students were judged on innovation and initiative; entrepreneurial spirit and inpact both of the examples given and on their presentation.