Entries open for the 2023 Stockport Business Awards

Now in its 12th year, entries for this year’s Stockport Business Awards are now open. This year’s categories are:

• Business of the Year up to £1m

• Business of the Year £1-5m

• Business of the Year over £5m

• Most Promising Young Business

• Employer of the Year

• Family Business of the Year

• Best Not-for-Profit Organisation

• The CSR Award

• Best Inhouse Marketing Team/Individual of the Year

• Best Creative/Design Agency

• The Innovation Award

• The Taste of Stockport Award

• The Stockport Award

Businesses can now head to the Stockport Business Awards website to submit their entries online. Entries will close at 5pm on Friday 2nd June.

Sponsorship opportunities are also still available. If you would like to know more about the available packages, please email contact Georgia Hilton at main sponsors, Clarke Nicklin.

The Stockport Business Awards will take place on Thursday 5th October 2023 at Edgeley Park. This year, the event will raise funds for homelessness charity, EGG.

One of the UK’s oldest, most established family of independent brewers, Robinsons, have welcomed their sixth foal, Hillgate Frederic, to their family of Shires. Born at 12:50am on Thursday 30th March, the birth follows the announcement in 2018 of the launch of Robinsons very own Shire Breeding Programme.

Helen Preece, Head Horseperson at Robinsons, commented: “On behalf of myself and the company, we are extremely pleased to be preserving and promoting the Shire Horse breed and are so happy with our newest foal. Both mother (Dolly) and foal are doing fine.

Hillgate Frederic is foal to Dolly, a 14-year-old registered Shire mare (pictured below with foal); the sire is the bay stallion Daresbrook Sir Alfred, owned by Mr J Worthington of Alderley Edge.

John Robinson, Retail Operations Manager at Robinsons Brewery and President of the Shire Horse Society said: “Robinsons was built on the backbone of the Shire horse 184 years ago. Before the arrival of the internal combustion engine, Robinsons’ Shires were in the main brewery yard working every day to deliver traditionally brewed ales to local inns and hostelries. However, their primary use was inter-brewery work: moving bottles and cases between Unicorn and Hempshaw Brook Breweries in the 1950’s. The Shires also moved cinders, spent hops and wastepaper from the main yard."

Hillgate Frederic is named after Frederic Robinson who, in 1859, took over the Unicorn pub on Hillgate from his father William and bought a warehouse to the rear so brewing capacity could be expanded.