• Swindon & Wiltshire Awards
• Monday July 1 2024
• Author Name: Peter Davison

Thames Valley’s best businesses recognised at glittering awards ceremony

The region’s best businesses have been recognised at the 2024 Thames Valley Business Awards from Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce.

Bracknell-based software development firm Content Guru was named Thames Valley Business of the Year after scooping the category award for Best Use of Technology.

The cloud communications company provides services in over 60 countries through its contact centre as a service solution, Storm

Attendees await to hear who will be named Business of the Year

Meanwhile, there were nine other category winners:

Children’s hospice charity Julia’s House received the Commitment to the Community Award. The charity has hospices in Devizes, Wiltshire and in Dorset.

Hampton by Hilton High Wycombe received the Equality and Diversity Award. The £21 million, 150 bedroom hotel was opened in 2021.

Maidenhead-based recruitment agency Grace won the Excellence in Customer Service Award. The company celebrated its 25th anniversary in April this year.

The Excellence in Sustainability award was won by Swindon-based tech recycling firm Green Machine Computers, which took home The Commitment to the Community last year.

Comsense, the three-year-old Maidenhead-based telecoms provider, was named Most Promising New Business

Newbury-based cyber security firm Cyber Crowd was named Employer of the Year

High Wycombe-based global medical device company June Medical won the award for Export Business of the Year

The Henley Distillery was named SME Business of the Year. Master distiller Jacob Wilson set up the gin distillery in 2021 – the first in the town for 270 years.

And the Workplace Health and Wellbeing Award went to Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, one of the largest general hospital foundation trusts in the country.

The awards ceremony was held at Reading FC’s home ground – the Select Car Leasing Stadium – on Thursday (June 27). The ceremony was hosted by Brendan Cole of BBC One’s Strictly Come Dancing.

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