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Education Business of the Year
Winner : Tharshiny Pankaj, Managing Director and Academic Registrar, The Regent Group
Tharshiny started out offering one-to-one tuition to students from their home. And today some 20 years later it is a truly astonishing educational establishment serving over 6,000 students with offices in London, New York, Dubai and India. The business was started by Tharshiny and her husband Selva, offering a full range of education from nursery to independent sixth form and ... read more
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Healthcare Business of the Year supported by Zee Network
Winner : Rizwan Mahmood and Zayba Sheikh of Ruh Dental
Our winners are an enterprising husband and wife team who sell smiles. Seeing a gap in the market, they established a dental clinic for restorative treatments to give confidence to patients. In a little over seven years since the business started, the couple now have four sites in key areas of London, Manchester and Liverpool. The business is fast expanding ... read more
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Franchise Business of the Year
Winner : Aly Janmohamed, CEO of Soul Foods Group.
Our winner has franchising in his blood, coming from a long line of franchise operators. He started out with a single quick service restaurant some 30 years ago and today runs one of the biggest fast food franchise operations in the UK and Canada. With more than 400 franchises ranging from KFC, Burger King and Taco Bell restaurants to Starbucks ... read more
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Family Business of the Year supported by Pickfords
Winner : Pankhania Family
Our winning family started with a patriarch arriving in the UK in 1968 and working in a car showroom before being given their first loan to develop a dilapidated town house in South London – today the same company is already in the top 25 property development companies nationwide and regarded as a powerhouse in specialist re-development projects. It all ... read more
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Young Entrepreneur of the Year supported by SBI
Winner : Shaleeza Hasham, Head of Hospitality, Communications and Commissioning, CHD Living
When Shaleeza Hasham joined the family business ten years ago, she oversaw its strategic development and undertook a complete rebranding of the organisation. She implemented new technologies throughout the business and put in place a comprehensive training programme for staff. And during Covid she founded a charity called Adopt a Grandparent helping to combat loneliness amongst the elderly which has ... read more
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Deal of the Year
Winner : Salim Janmohamed, Managing Director, Karali Group
Our winner is a remarkable entrepreneur who started out flipping burgers at his father’s restaurant whilst still a schoolboy. He learnt the trade quickly and opened his own fast food restaurant over four decades ago. Using his vast experience in turning around loss making businesses he built an impressive portfolio of fast food restaurants, eventually becoming the largest UK franchisee ... read more
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Entrepreneur of the Year supported by Pratham
Winner : Dr Vijay Patel OBE, Chairman, Waymade Capital
Our winner is an outstanding entrepreneur who first worked in a fish and chip shop to finance his studies. He qualified as a pharmacist and went on to build a chain of pharmacies before selling them on. With his brother he went into wholesaling and then into manufacturing and developing niche generic drugs. He sold the business at a premium, ... read more
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Community Champion Award supported by Sun Mark
Winner : Tony Matharu, Founder and Chairman, Integrity International Group
Tony has been a passionate and tireless champion of London’s local communities and a powerful advocate for businesses based in the Capital. During the pandemic our winner mobilised efforts to support the homeless by providing 5,000 rooms and over 30,000 vital meals to those in need. And after the pandemic his efforts have been equally impressive, forming a community interest ... read more
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Charitable Foundation of the Year
Winner : Bestway Foundation
The Bestway Foundation is the charitable arm of the Bestway Group, a multi-national conglomerate with interests in wholesale, banking pharmacy and cement. The business was started by the Pakistan-born entrepreneur Sir Anwar Pervez in 1976 and the Bestway Foundation was established in 1987. The foundation is funded by 2.5 per cent of the annual profits of the Bestway Group and ... read more
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Philanthropy Award
Winner : Koolesh Shah, Founder & Chairman, London Town Group of Companies
Our winner is an exceptional entrepreneur and something of a maverick who grew up in the swinging 60s but found his true purpose in the teachings of the great philosopher Sri Aurobindo. His family foundation has helped countless charities tackling poverty, homelessness and mental health. He has funded schools in deprived areas in Britain, India and East Africa and is ... read more
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Businesswoman of the Year
Winner : Prema Subaskaran, Founder, Lyca Health
Our winner is passionate about healthcare and providing the best medical care in a quick and easily accessible manner. She established a modern healthcare facility in the City, largely catering to busy professionals in the world of finance. Offering the latest high tech equipment along with top healthcare professionals, the business has established a loyal and growing client base. Under ... read more
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Asian Business of the Year in association with Westcombe Group
Winner : Sri Prakash Lohia, Founder & Chairman, Indorama Corp
Our winner is a truly exceptional entrepreneur who has built a world class business. He started his first textile manufacturing unit in Indonesia in 1976 and has since been on a journey of relentless growth and expansion. From textiles the family moved into the production of disposable gloves followed by polyester fibre and a PET plastic bottle plant. Further expansion ... read more
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