Organisers of the 2011 Midlands Family Business Awards have confirmed Perween Warsi CBE, the founder and chief executive of Derby-based S & A Foods, is to be on the Awards' independent panel of judges.
S & A Foods is one of the UK's most successful independent food companies, supplying millions of chilled meals each week and employing more than 600 people and Mrs Warsi will lead the judging panel for the Awards' Fastest Growing Family Business category, sponsored by Leicester-based ProspectIP.
Also recently confirmed is Parveen Mehta, Director of Birmingham-based Minor Weir Willis Limited (MWW), who will be lead judge of the Barclays-sponsored International Markets category.
Mark Samworth of Samworth Brothers will lead the panel judging the headline Midlands Family Business of the Year Award, sponsored by accountants Smith Cooper.
Other judges across the Awards' ten categories include Tim Storer, MD of Pukka Pies, Nick Wheeler, founder of Charles Tyrwhitt, Tim John Horrell, MD of Dodson & Horrell, Kavita Oberoi, of Oberoi Consulting and Octavian Security, author Peter Leach, Gwenllian Williams, Ron Lynch of the Institute of Directors, Grant Gordon, director general of the Institute of Family Business, Colin Slater MBE, Dhiren Katwa and Andy Coyne.
All Award finalists and winners will be unveiled at a prestigious ceremony in November.
