There will also be a supreme award.
Te Puke Economic Development Group (EDG) managing director Mark Boyle says judging will be across four key areas.
These will be financial, customers and markets, how the business is run internally and the programme for learning and growth.
The closing date for nominations will be toward the end of August, but Mark says judging will begin once the first nominations start coming in.
The last awards were presented at a glitzy event in Te Puke Memorial Hall in July 2021, with Anann Pineapple Pub owners Miriam Canty and Leigh Bartosh taking the supreme award.
He says it is important to recognise business excellence.
“Businesses are meeting the needs of consumers and industry across the district, so it’s very important to highlight them, to give them the opportunity to participate in the process where we search for and judge excellence, and it’s a great way of bringing the business community together as one so that they can understand we have a value proposition.
“Business drives communities, so if you keep bringing it to the fore and highlighting it and judging it and making them part of the process, it shows that we are healthy and focused on being the best we can be.”
Visit the Te Puke EDG Facebook page to make a nomination.
