Founder & CEO Nigel Botterill receives the Sharp Edge award from Dragons Den star and entrepreneur Duncan Bannatyne
Founder & CEO Nigel Botterill,photographed by top photographer Perou as part of the Essence of the Entrepreneur prize.
Directors Nigel and Sue Botterill receiving the award for position 3 in the Sunday Times Tech Track 100.
thebestof has received an unprecedented amount of recognition over the last 12 months or so. Here are some of the awards that we have won in 2007 - 2008:
You know, those awards prove one thing. The team that help you set up your 'thebestof' franchise can be trusted to get it right, to work closely with you, and to go the extra mile when it comes to guiding, support and assisting you. Aren't they very important things to consider when you are choosing the right franchise?

Awarded on 12th March 2008 the judges, chaired by Peter Jones from BBC’s Dragons' Den, commented specifically on last year’s re-alignment of our brand and the move towards us becoming ‘word of mouth specialists, championing and flying the flag for local recommended businesses’. They were particularly impressed with our initiatives like Reviews, Business Awards, and thebestof networking which are ‘engaging with local people’.
This award is a huge coup for everyone involved in the business, especially franchisees, and is a massive endorsement of our strategy by some of the top business people in Britain.
The Award was sponsored by T-Mobile and Businesslink.
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thebestof ranked No. 3 in the Top 100 in the list that was published in September 2007. This was a major national accolade for the company, of which we are very proud.
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Presented by Dragons Dens Duncan Bannatyne.
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We were one of five finalists for this Award that was presented in November 2007.
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We were finalists again in this prestigious award that was presented in December 2007. We were mixing it with big names like Specsavers, Nat West and Gu chocolate puds who all won Awards on the night.
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Our CEO Nigel Botterill was ‘Highly Commended’ by the judges for this Award.

Here’s what the judges said about us when they presented us with this Award:
"thebestof…helps to promote over 65,000 SME businesses and provides them with an optimised online presence that many would otherwise struggle to create and manage on their own. thebestof are one of the UK’s top 100 most popular sites as ranked by independent web traffic monitor Alexa.com with over a million users visiting the sites each month."
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