Worcester businesses win big in British Chamber of Commerce awards

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Nicky Godding

Worcester-based outdoors camping, tents and accessories retailer Olpro, only just missed being crowned winner of the British Chamber of Commerce 2019 awards. But this successful company isn't downhearted and is happily celebrating being runner-up in these major awards (the winner was Nottinghamshire-based Barker Shoes) - Olpro still has the second best e-commerce website in the UK.

Worcestershire was well represented in the national awards. Worcester-based chartered accountants Bishop Fleming which won both Business of the Year and Workplace Wellbeing Awards. Business West won the Most Effective Campaign Award for its pioneering ‘Trading Through Brexit’ campaign.

The website, www.olproshop.com had already been voted as best eCommerce site in the Midlands by the Chamber, earlier in the year, and so shortlisted for the national award which was announced last week at Tobacco Docks in London.

Olpro which has picked up a number of awards from the Chamber of Commerce over the last two years including best social media for 2018, highly commended Customer Services 2019 and its regional award for eCommerce.

Daniel Walton, Founder of Olpro, said: “The British Chamber of Commerce represent 75,000 businesses in the UK, so to be a finalist alone is an incredible achievement. To come second is an unbelievable honour. The team work very hard. It’s not easy for small companies these days but we’re very focused on our brand, on what we do and I do think being recognised is deserved. For us, as a company, our customers guide us in terms of what they want from us but awards show us that the industry believes what we’re doing is also right.”

Olpro was founded in 2011 and now employs 12 people, based in Little Witley, Worcestershire.

Nicky Godding

Nicky Godding is editor of The Business Magazine. Before her journalism career, she worked mainly in public relations moving into writing when she was invited to launch Retail Watch, a publication covering retail and real estate across Europe. After some years of constant travelling, she tucked away her passport and concentrated on business writing, co-founding a successful regional business magazine. She has interviewed some of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs who have built multi-million-pound businesses and reported on many science and technology firsts. She reports on the region’s thriving business economy from start-ups, family businesses and multi-million-pound corporations, to the professionals that support their growth and the institutions that educate the next generation of business leaders.