Press agency ‘Talk to the Press’ wins 2009 Women in Business award

• Tuesday, 17 November 2009

Natasha Courtenay-Smith, founder of national press agency Talk to the Press (http://www.talktothepress.co.uk) has won the Women in Business award at this year’s StartUps Awards.

The awards ceremony, organised by startups.co.uk, took place on Friday 13 November at the Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor Square, London. The prestigious awards celebrated the UK’s most outstanding new businesses and the people running them.

Business excellence was rewarded across a variety of categories, including Women in Business, Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Product of the Year and Green Business of the Year.

The winner of each category was chosen by a panel of top judges, including Doug Richard, founder of School for Startups, Holly Tucker, director of NotOnTheHighStreet.com, Charlie Mullins, MD of Pimlico Plumbers, and Clare Young, runner up of The Apprentice. The successful businesses and the talented people behind them proved their brilliance after fighting off competition from hundreds of entries.

“Our winners are the business leaders of tomorrow but the drivers of today’s economy,” says David Lester, founder of startups.co.uk. “It’s essential we recognise their efforts and the success that they have achieved, especially in the tough economic conditions.”

Natasha Courtenay-Smith says: “I am thrilled to have won this award. There were almost 300 entries in the Women in Business category, and it’s wonderful to know that having been analysed by a number of business experts, Talk to the Press was deemed the best.”

Talk to the Press is a press agency aimed at helping individuals across the UK sell their story to newspapers and magazines. Over 5000 people type in variations of the keywords ‘Sell my story’ into Google every month in the UK.

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Notes to editors:

Talk to the Press http://www.talktothepress.co.uk

For information on Talk to the Press or to arrange an interview with Natasha Courtenay-Smith, please contact Lesley Singleton at LS Media on lesley@lsmedia.co.uk, or call 01234 752 663.

For further information about the StartUps Awards visit www.startupsawards.co.uk or call: 020 8334 1600.

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