FOLLOWING more than 800 nominations and thousands of votes we can now reveal the finalists in this year’s Echo-backed Langtry Manor Business Women Awards for Dorset.

All three finalists in each of the 15 categories will be invited to the Grand Awards ceremony at the Langtry Manor Hotel in Bournemouth on May 17.

The Echo-backed Business Mother of the Year award was one of three categories open to the public vote for a week.

Tara Howard, managing director of the Langtry who launched the awards in 2009, said: “I am always impressed by the tenacity, drive and talent along with adversity that has been overcome by the various women in business that enter the awards.

“This year is no exception, I think it is going to be a difficult decision for the judges this year and am interested to see who the 14 winners are going to be!”

Visit the website businesswomenawards.com for information.

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Kate Johnson – Smiley Booth

Ces Loftus – Supportive Business Mums

Hayley Jones – Sweetcheeks Cakes

Heart Employee of the Year

Carly Thompson – Basepoint

Alison Taylor – City Centre Recruitment

Maria Seabright – Greendale Construction

REAL Employer of the Year

Linda Tazzyman – Number 9

Jacqui Walter – City Centre Recruitment

Hollie Gordon – Forever Gorgeous

Bournemouth Chamber Lifetime Achievement

Susan Ferguson – Nova Cleaners

Sharon Canning – Move on Rentals

Frances Cornelius – Variety Club Wessex

HG Walker PA Award

Michelle Canning – Platinum Property Partners

Christine Baker – Greendale Construction

Karen Ambler – What Alice Found

Jobshop Special Woman Award

Paula Giles – The Party Plan Guru

Ces Loftus – Supportive Business Mums & the Light Direction

Helen Reed – Nordcat

WIBN Business Woman of The Future

Hannah Arkell – ‘Belle Enfants’

Brogan Mooney – Brockenhurst College

Kristi Longridge – Bournemouth University

Granite Transformations High Achiever

Fiona McArthur – Quality Solicitors D’Angibau

Jacqui Walter – City Centre Recruitment

Helen Wilson – Academy of Exercise Studies

Princecroft Willis Entrepreneur

Keeley Fox – Di Lusso Interiors

Ali Carter – The Work Shop

Kate Johnson – Smiley Booth

Natwest New Business

Tracy Franklin – Muddy Puddles

Charlotte Bennett – Every Cloud

Claire Adersley – Number 83

The FSB Small Business Award

Sue Cowell – Cobweb Knits

Joanna Davies – The Gilded Teapot

Sally Tanner – Dorset Counselling

Soroptimist International of Poole Home Based Business

Helen Banfield – Body Matters

Jennie Langridge – Clevercow cakes

Katharine Cleall – Travel Counsellor

Bournemouth Town Dot Com Business Award

Zoe Frinskney and Jane Kelly – Nellypepper.co.uk

Nicola Massieu-Cowland – ShoeDevotion.co.uk

Nicki Grainger – TheCherrycloset.com

Lexus Green Award

Jennie Langridge – Clevercow cakes

Melissa Smith – Enas Florists

Denise Wright – Janine Pattison Garden Design

Chapter 2 Lifetime of Excellence

Jo Pritchard – BSG

June Sear – Meyrick Estates

Irene Richards – Talbot Heath