There are so many ways that businesses can celebrate their success throughout the year. This can range from shouting about it in press releases and on social media to recognising your staffs hard work and dedication with inhouse recognition, bonus schemes and even annual staff awards.
One of the ways to celebrate a businesses success, that many don’t take full advantage of, is business awards. These can be national awards that commemorate a business’s success, local business awards that promote the community spirit and localised success of a company, and industry awards that celebrate the success of businesses based in a certain sector.
Revive! has a long history of success in all three of these award types and has developed a dedicated process for each sector to ensure our highest chance of success each time we enter an award submission. So, we thought it worthwhile to discuss the awards we enter, why, and how they benefit Revive!
National Business Awards
National business awards bring with them a prestige that you are the best of the best in a certain category. Only the top businesses in the country are selected as finalists, with the winner being the leading business for that category. As a franchisor, Revive! typically enters national awards as a singular business representing the entirety of our franchise network. This promotes the company as a national business, rather than localising us to a specific franchise. National business awards provide increased media coverage for finalists and eventual winners while highlighting businesses as ones to pay attention to as a customer, potential franchisee and competitor.
Depending on the ceremony, winning in the national awards can lead to being entered for European success, such as Revive!’s Gold award win at the 2022 HSBC/British Franchise Association (bfa) Franchise of the Year awards, which led to the company being entered into the European Franchise awards, where we took home the Bronze trophy in the European Franchise of the Year category.
Local Business Awards
Local Business Awards are perfect for bringing attention to smaller companies and individual franchisees who are showcasing their skills and deserve to be recognized for their efforts. These entrepreneurs are often selected for the growth and development of their business, along with their efforts in improving the local community and economy. Revive! often uses local business awards to promote a particular franchisee that has shown commitment to promoting the core values of Revive!, shown reasonable growth over the year or has achieved significant success deserving of recognition.
Similar to the National business awards depending on the promotion tied to the awards ceremony, certain local business awards will graduate its winners into a national competition where the business can compete against all of the regional winners across the country. Such as Revive! Stoke’s win in the FSB West Midlands Franchise of the Year Award. Revive! Stoke then went on to compete for the national victory in Blackpool at the FSB Celebrating Small Business Awards 2024.
Industry Business Awards
One of the key things to understand about Industry award categories is they can appear highly restrictive when only looking at the award name. However, when exploring an award Revive! recommends reading into the description and the specific criteria used when talking about the award, as this can give more of an idea of what the judges are looking for and whether your business could be a viable contender in said category.
Industry Business Awards are a key venue for companies to explore as they put you directly up against your competition and alongside your customer base. From a B2B point of view industry business awards are an excellent opportunity to network with other companies who may be in need of your services and vice versa. From a B2C perspective winning an industry award allows you to tell customers that you are the best of the best in that industry, a key marketing tool that can make all the difference for smaller enterprises.
Revive! have only recently started exploring automotive industry awards, but already in 2025, we have been shortlisted for 5 different awards with more still in the pipeline. We are excited about the future opportunities in the sector and will of course announce any new nominations right here.
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