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We are pleased to announce…

One of the top business awards in the country, sponsored by Alliance Corporate Risk Management, has been won at a glittering awards ceremony hosted by William Hague.

Jonathan Quaile, managing director of Alliance, handed over the Company of the Year award to Wolfson Microelectronics at the CBI Growing Business Awards night, attended by some of the biggest names in British business.

The Company of the Year was one of the top awards presented at the event - dubbed the ‘business Oscars’ by Chancellor Gordon Brown - at the London Hilton in Park Lane.

John McLaren-Stewart, chief executive of Alliance, said Wolfson was truly deserving of such a prestigious award. "They're a successful business well known for their innovative approach and we were delighted to be able to hand over this well-deserved and respected award to them.

“We sponsored the Company of the Year award because we support just this sort of dynamic company - businesses that inspire us and help us develop our own product and servicing support to meet the increasing legislative and global market in which they operate.

“A business can only grow if it takes risks - not reckless risk-taking but quantified, well assessed risk taking, where the upside is enormous and the downside is protected through entrepreneurial risk management. We understand that and so do businesses of the calibre of these award-winners."

The Growing Business Awards ceremony took place in front of 700 entrepreneurs - guests included Charles Dunstone, John Madejski, Sir Peter Rigby, Sir Anthony Bamford, Sir Tom Hunter, Lord Graham Kirkham and the entire cast of BBC2’s Dragons’ Den.