{"id":7294,"date":"2017-09-26T14:34:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T14:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ballymenachamber.co.uk\/?p=7294"},"modified":"2017-09-26T14:44:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T14:44:48","slug":"finalists-named-for-2017-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/?p=7294","title":{"rendered":"Finalists Named for 2017 Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The names of the finalists for the 2017 Ballymena Business Excellence Awards have been revealed. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ballymenachamber.co.uk\/?page_id=7300\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for the full list.<\/a> The awards are organised annually by Ballymena Borough Chamber of Commerce and Industry and this year the principal sponsor is Mid and East Antrim Borough Council.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h6><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7296\" src=\"http:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/FINALISTS_STORY.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"679\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/FINALISTS_STORY.jpg 679w, https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/FINALISTS_STORY-300x228.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/>L-R: Ronan McCann (Ballymena Chamber of Commerce President), Anne Donaghy (Chief Executive Mid and East Antrim Borough Council) and Mayor of Mid and East Antrim Cllr. Paul Reid<\/h6>\n<p>Chris Wales, Chamber of Commerce Business Awards Manager said that the entries reached record levels this year.<\/p>\n<p>Chris said <em>\u201cTo ensure the integrity of the awards the judging is carried out by Insight Mystery Shopping from Belfast. The Chamber is not involved in the judging in any way. The judges this year were hugely impressed not only by the number of entries but the exceptionally high quality.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe gala evening will be held in Tullyglass House Hotel on Thursday 19th October. The compere for the evening will be Sarah Travers and the after dinner entertainment will be provided by The Bizz. Magician Rodd Hogg will also be entertaining guests during the evening. I am looking forward to another excellent evening. Tickets are selling well for what is now the leading event in the Ballymena business calendar. I would like to congratulate all the finalists and wish them good luck for the gala evening when the winners are announced\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To purchase tickets, or for more information please contact Chris Wales at <a href=\"mailto:office@ballymenachamber.co.uk\">office@ballymenachamber.co.uk<\/a> or on 07876 758797.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The names of the finalists for the 2017 Ballymena Business Excellence Awards have been revealed. Click here for the full list. The awards are organised annually by Ballymena Borough Chamber of Commerce and Industry and this year the principal sponsor is Mid and East Antrim Borough Council. L-R: Ronan McCann (Ballymena Chamber of Commerce President), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7295,"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-7294","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\/7294"}],"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=7294"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7303,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7294\/revisions\/7303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ballymenachamber.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}