Our Patch February 2015 | Page 23

NEWS UPDATE H&F BRILLIANT BUSINESS AWARDS Here are Horton and Garton, we are delighted that we’ve scooped an award for Our Patch magazine. We offer a big thanks to everyone who voted… W e’ve won! Thanks to your votes, Horton and Garton has not only won the award for the best independent local business but also the 2014 marketing prize for Our Patch, the magazine you’re currently holding in your hands. From its low-key launch, with 10,000 distribution, it has increased to a 22,000 print run, with the judges of the Brilliant Business Awards also noting the link-ups with other independent businesses in Hammersmith & Fulham in reaching their decision to give Horton and Garton the award. After also collecting the runners-up prize for best innovation in a business in 2014 (again for the Our Patch), we are now running out of shelf space for trophies at our King Street office. Our Patch was a concept which had not been tried before; it’s not a sales magazine, and it’s not full of We support other locally based independent businesses, and we all link to each other on our websites adverts. It supports other locally based independent businesses, and we all link to each other on our websites, with that crossover and support always useful. As a result of the good feedback Proud Horton and Garton staff celebrate their multiple awards at the Brilliant Business Awards we’ve been getting, business partners are now coming to us to create more offers which help shoppers who support the area’s independent traders. The features which seem most popular in Our Patch include history – from the flyover to the river, topical subjects such as the development at the Lyric theatre, and the Talking Heads feature, in which head teachers talk about their schools. So what do the awards actually mean? Well, it’s recognition of our efforts to build the brand and keep our approach to house sales and letting fresh, honest and professional. Last year, Horton and Garton won the award for best customer service, so it’s very special to do so well this year in three key categories. Businesses of all styles, types, shapes and sizes battled it out in the shortlist for 14 awards, as nominated by residents, ͡