{"id":5198,"date":"2015-09-16T10:03:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T10:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ballymenachamber.co.uk\/?p=5198"},"modified":"2015-09-16T10:04:43","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T10:04:43","slug":"preparing-to-toast-the-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/?p=5198","title":{"rendered":"Preparing to toast the Winners!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The winners in the 2015 Ballymena\u00a0Business Excellence Awards will be announced at a gala dinner to be held in Tullyglass House Hotel on Thursday 1st\u00a0October. This is the thirteenth\u00a0year of the awards, organised annually by Ballymena Borough Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and around 450 guests are expected to attend.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h6><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5200\" title=\"TOAST_STORY\" src=\"http:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/TOAST_STORY.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"679\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/TOAST_STORY.jpg 679w, https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/TOAST_STORY-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/>L-R: Chamber President Alan Stewart, Gus McConville from Tullyglass House Hotel and Ritchie Remo are ready to toast the winners at the gala evening<\/h6>\n<p>Alan Stewart, Chamber President\u00a0thanked the sponsors for all their support. He said\u00a0<em>\u201cIt would be impossible to run the awards without the support of our sponsors and advertisers and Chamber is very grateful to them all. Special thanks go to Mid and East Antrim Borough Council\u00a0who is the principal sponsor\u00a0this year. I would also say thank\u00a0you to all the businesses who\u00a0entered the awards this year \u2013 the number and quality of the entries was truly exceptional and clearly demonstrated the business acumen in the Ballymena area.\u00a0I would like to wish all the finalists every success on the evening\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He went on <em>\u201cI am really looking forward to the gala evening. We have a superb evening planned. The compere is Gene Fitzpatrick and the after dinner entertainment is the fantastic Ritchie Remo and his band. The highlight of course is the announcement of the winners\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ritchie Remo said <em>\u201cThe awards show celebrates the success of local business and we\u2019ll be encouraging everyone to let their hair down on the night. Tullyglass is one of the best venues around and I\u2019m looking forward to playing there again. We\u2019ll keep the dance floor packed all night\u201d.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you wish to book your tickets, or for any further information, please contact Chris Wales at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:office@ballymenachamber.co.uk\">office@ballymenachamber.co.uk<\/a>\u00a0or 07876 758797<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The winners in the 2015 Ballymena\u00a0Business Excellence Awards will be announced at a gala dinner to be held in Tullyglass House Hotel on Thursday 1st\u00a0October. This is the thirteenth\u00a0year of the awards, organised annually by Ballymena Borough Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and around 450 guests are expected to attend.\u00a0 L-R: Chamber President Alan Stewart, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25,36,48],"class_list":["post-5198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-business-awards","tag-events","tag-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5198"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5204,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198\/revisions\/5204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}