Thursday 4th October 2007

The Centaur, Cheltenham Racecourse

Showcasing the very best of the best – that is what the Citizen and Gloucestershire Echo Business Awards are all about.

Andrew Blair, managing director of Gloucestershire Media which publishes The Citizen and Gloucestershire Echo, said: “Gloucestershire is an exceptional place to live and do business.

There was double delight at the glittering gala eveing awards for Gloucester-based Avon Metals Limited. Its dynamic managing director Steven Munnoch won the Grant Thornton-backed Young Business Person of the Year award and his company took the the Gloucestershire County Council-sponsored International Trade award.

Avon Metals has become one of the world’s largest producers of aluminium-based master-alloys. Employing 70 people the Gloucester facility is now one of the most advanced-and greenest-of its kind.

This was the tenth anniversary of the Citizen and Gloucestershire Echo Business Awards which have gone from strength to strength.