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Home Business Awards 2008: Winners announced!

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Today we are delighted to announce that language tuition company, Toniks, is our 2008 Home Business of the Year. Congratulations to founder, Karen Hollands!

Award Judges were unanimous in their verdict that Toniks (www.toniks.com) was the home business showing most progress and promise across three areas of business, lifestyle and technology.

You can hear the moment when we broke the good news to Karen, by clicking the track below the player, and find out who the other category winners were below.

Other category winners were:

Young Home Business Owner of the Year

Helen Rhiannon Gill, Helen Rhiannon

Home Business Couple of the Year

Steph and Paul Savill, Foxy Lady Drivers Club

Home Office of the Year

Justina Perry, MamaBabyBliss

Karen's home business, Toniks, beat off stiff competition from more than 300 other home based businesses to be crowned ‘2008 Home Business of the Year’ and to win a package of prizes including 12 months of a Moneypenny PA, a printing package from Brother worth £1,000 and 10 days access to top London members club, One Alfred Place.

All winners will receive profile and prizes to recognise the fantastic companies they have started – and are growing – from home. You can find out more about each home business from our home page today.

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Home Business Awards (finalist logo)Well done to everyone who entered our 2008 Home Business Awards. Since the quality of applications was so high, we've designed this 'finalist' logo (left) for every applicant. Feel free to include it on your website and link to ours at www.enterprisenation.com

To download the logo right-click where you see the logo and save it to your computer.

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Author: Karen Hollands

Date: 01/09/2008

Comment: Thank you so much for the award. It's so nice to be recognised this way, and fascinating to see the judges' comments. This is a real boost for us, and we look forward to improving our business further.

Congratulations to all the finalists and other category winners too.

best regards

Karen

Website: www.toniks.com

Author: UK Association of Virtual Assistants

Date: 01/09/2008

Comment: Congratulations to all the winners. Well done

Website: http://www.ukava.co.uk

Author: Heather Bestel

Date: 01/09/2008

Comment: Congratulations everyone - just come back from a meeting to read the good news.

Website: www.alittlebitofmetime.com

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