TODAY we can announce the finalists in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph East Lancashire Business Awards 1996.

Those in the running for a share of a £10,000 prize pot range from one man bands to major international companies with multi-million pound turnovers.

The finalists will soon be receiving invitations to the gala presentation night being staged at the Dunkenhalgh Hotel on June 28. They are : Abbey Telecom; Apeks Marine Equipment; B & M Longworth; BHR Clothing; Blackburn College; Cavalier Carpets; Cleveland-Guest (Engineering); Conservatory Coloured Glass; Consortium of Lancashire Aerospace; Creative Antique Nylon; D & C Industrial Supplies; Euravia Engineering & Supply; Europrint; F H Brown; Gibbon Bridge Hotel; House of Images; Instant Search; Lynx Engineering; M I Transmissions; New Direction Training; Profit Improvement & Engineering; Ribble Valley Carriage Company; Simon Jersey; Smith & Nephew; Stella Maris Community Care; Stuart Ainslie Photography; Training 2000; Vernon Stainless; Wolstenholme Rink; Walter Holland & Sons; Whitney Woods.

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