NOTTINGHAM Rugby sponsor, Hall-Fast Industrial Supplies has won the Business of the Year award at the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Chamber of Commerce awards Nottinghamshire Best Business awards.

Winners of the awards were announced on Friday 12 October at a glittering ceremony held at the Nottingham Belfry Hotel.

The Nottinghamshire Best Business Awards 2012 awards recognise business excellence and are undoubtedly one of the region's most prestigious business awards schemes.

Commenting, Managing Director Malcolm Hall (pictured) said, "I am really pleased to have won this title. For me, entering awards isn't about the personal glorification.

"It is about the credibility that can be gained to the benefit of the company and the local community. Over the last three years Hall-Fast Industrial Supplies have won nine awards and this has helped raise our profile and win work which previously we might not have been considered.

"We now export to over 75 countries and I think both of our international customers and our local trade customers get a tremendous sense of comfort knowing they are dealing with a company that has been recognised locally, regionally and nationally. I also do a lot to raise money for local charities and to support the local community. This kind of profile makes the fund raising process much easier."

Hall-Fast have recently moved to new premises onAnglia Wayin Masnfield and has spent £270,000 kitting out the new trade shop which will be officially opened on Friday 26 October by Tony Eggington, Mayor of Mansfield.

All trade customers are welcome to call in between 9am and 5pm to see what the new shop has to offer and watch various product demonstrations from Karcher, Dickies, Snickers and DeWalt, plus many other leading brands in workwear, access equipment, tools and fasteners.