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St Nick Awards celebrate work of turnaround sector
15th December 2010
The awards were held for the second year running at Aspire in Leeds, Aspire were thrilled once again to host this successful event which was co-hosted by Mr Forshaw and David Parkin of TheBusinessDesk.com.
The team from Skipton Business Finance receive their awards from William Ballman of Cobbetts
THE work carried out by Yorkshire's turnaround and restructuring firms and professionals was celebrated at the annual St Nick Awards this week.
Hosted by turnaround fund Endless, the fifth annual awards were held at Aspire, attracted an audience of more than 350 people and raised more than £7,000 for charity.
Highlights from the evening saw Nigel Clark of Findel collect the award for Chief Restructuring Officer of the Year and Hunter Kelly of Ernst & Young crowned Living Legend of the Year. Turnaround Deal of the Year was the restructuring of Dyson Group which featured a cast of advisors from Deloitte, DLA Piper, Lloyds Banking Group, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Walker Morris.
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Aspire is delighted to announce new members to the team in Leeds |
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Giles Fretwell
Aspire Event Manager
Giles is a key member of the events team at Aspire looking after numerous blue chip clients. Giles has expertise and knowledge in running a variety of events, his flair and creativity in theming and styling are second to none! He started his working life in catering at the age of 14, washing up in a local pub and at the time was too short to reach the bottom of the sink so he had to stand on a box. Giles then went on to work at the Boars Head Ripley throughout school and for a year following school, although he got the travelling bug and went to Australia for a year, nice!
On returning to the UK he secured a position at Playford Ros wine merchants where he started off picking orders and labelling bottles of wine! He was there for 5 years and worked in all departments while taking his WSET wine exams. From Playford free wine, normal hours and weekends off just got too much for Giles so he moved to outside catering company Taste Cuisine as an events manager, none normal hours, lots of weekends but still some free wine!
This family owned company allowed Giles to develop his skills in every aspect of event management from driving vans, building marquee kitchens, managing all type of events from 5 guests to 500 from dinners to BBQ’s and a lot of weddings!
Interests (getting to know Giles)
Walking, climbing, camping, gigs and music
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Yorkshire Life Food & Drink Awards 2010-2011 Winners! |
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Yorkshire Life Food & Drink Awards 2010-2011 - Winners Revealed at Aspire Leeds
The Yorkshire Life Food & Drink Awards 2010-2011 celebrated the county’s top talent last night handing out awards and accolades to the best in fine dining and hospitality.
More than 250 people filled Aspire, Leeds, for the awards gala evening with special guest Bob Cotton of Hospitality Action and former chief executive of the British Hospitality Association.
The prestigious awards have 13 categories covering key areas of the food, drink and hospitality industry and the winners are chosen by a panel of independent judges chaired by our food and drink consultant Annie Stirk who co-hosted the evening with BBC Look North presenter Harry Gration.
The winners took home coveted Yorkshire Life Food and Drink Awards plaques to display but no one left empty handed. All those shortlisted also took home commemorative plates.
To See the Winners, please click read more......
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Read more... [Yorkshire Life Food & Drink Awards 2010-2011 Winners!]
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