Family Business United is delighted to announce that G. Seller & Co. Ltd, the Hinckley based Funeral Directors took home the Midlands People’s Choice Family Business of the Year Award 2016. As Paul Andrews, Founder and Managing Director of Family Business United (‘FBU’) explains, "We were delighted to pull together such a vibrant bunch of family businesses for the 2016 FBOTY awards, some that have succeeded for numerous generations and continue to thrive, and others that are relatively young but have great values at the heart of what they do. G. Seller & Co. Ltd is an established family firm and they undertook a proactive campaign to get the support of the broader community to vote for them in these awards. The public really supported them and not only did they triumph in the Midlands, they also finished third overall in the National People’s Choice category. They are a great British family firm and truly deserve all the plaudits that winning this award brings."
Joseph Barsby, Director of G. Seller & Co. Ltd, said, "It is a privilege to work in my family business and we were delighted to support an awards programme that sets out to recognise the contribution of family businesses to the UK economy. We are proud to be a family firm, and to be part of the fabric of the community in which we are privileged to serve, and to win an award based on the backing of the public is fantastic. We are delighted to have won this award. It really means a lot and to come third in the National People’s Choice Award for 2016 is a remarkable achievement and a real credit to everyone involved in our business too.”
The Family Business of the Year Awards are organised by FBU, the award-winning magazine and resource centre that champions and celebrates the family business sector. Now in their fourth year, these awards recognise the diversity, strength and depth of family firms across the UK and seek to highlight the contribution that family firms make to the UK economy.
Open to family firms of all generations, sizes and sectors, these awards really do recognise some outstanding family firms and really help to put family businesses on the map. The People’s Choice awards are determined regionally by the public with an overall National People’s Choice Award too. The awards process concluded at a Gala Reception and awards ceremony that took place in London at the prestigious May Fair Hotel in London on 2nd June where all the winners were crowned.
