{"id":7478,"date":"2025-12-28T11:56:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T11:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=7478"},"modified":"2025-12-28T11:56:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T11:56:23","slug":"small-firms-urged-to-showcase-their-progress-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=7478","title":{"rendered":"Small firms urged to showcase their progress \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Scotland-BOTY-2026-cover.png\" alt=\"Scotland BOTY 20265\" class=\"wp-image-186296 lazyload\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Scotland-BOTY-2026-cover.png\" alt=\"Scotland BOTY 20265\" class=\"wp-image-186296 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Scotland-BOTY-2026-cover.png 1920w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Scotland-BOTY-2026-cover-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Scotland-BOTY-2026-cover-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Scotland-BOTY-2026-cover-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Scotland-BOTY-2026-cover-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Scotland-BOTY-2026-cover-600x338.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Companies with up to 50 employees are being urged to showcase their success by entering the Scotland Business of the Year Awards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Shortlisted businesses will be able to demonstrate outstanding development and growth, for example through significant investment, creating jobs, entering new markets, or launching new products \u2013 and be able to show the impact this has had on overall performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">TheBusinessDesk.com has launched the Scotland Business of the Year Awards to recognise the country\u2019s most successful and ambitious businesses. <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The awards are supported by <em>Daily Business<\/em> and TheBusinessGrid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Entries are now open for 13 categories, including fast-growth businesses, international trade, investment and employers. There will also be two individual awards, for chief executive of the year and ambassador.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The awards are now open for entries, with a deadline of Friday, 16 January. To enter, visit businessoftheyearawards.co.uk or email boty@thebusinessdesk.com.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Entries are free and the awards will have a rigorous judging process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Site visits will take place in February and March, with shortlisted companies invited to pitch to judges in May, before the winners are revealed at a black-tie awards evening in June.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.5.3) simplesharebuttons.com -->           \t            <\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n fbq('init', '1192059580980274'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script>#Small #firms #urged #showcase #progress #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Companies with up to 50 employ&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[266,6220,265,290,1378,3113,18,590],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}