The Private Business Awards, sponsored by BDO, is a comprehensive awards programme designed to seek, select and reward the very best of Private Businesses in the UK. Private businesses often sit in the shadow of UK capital markets, but with roughly 5.55m private businesses in the UK employing 27m people and turning over some £4.5tn*, it surely is time to highlight and reward success and achievement in this most important area of the economy

*Source: House of Commons Library