The Press Best Business Award 2016 -

Date: Thursday 17 Nov 2016

York, 17th November 2016 The Press Business Awards

Best Business Award 2016

Hundreds of people gathered at York Racecourse for The Press Business Awards 2016, a highlight of the entrepreneurial calendar and a chance to reward excellence in enterprise across York and North and East Yorkshire.

Tumultuous applause greeted the announcement that Riccall Care, already winner of the Family Business title, had been named as The Press Business of the Year.

Director Tony Conroy thanked the awards judges for recognising the importance of social care, saying: “For a small, family-run firm it means a hell of a lot.”

He added: “There’s too little said about social care at the moment, it’s very underfunded and everybody is suffering.”

In an impassioned speech, Mr Conroy also paid tribute to his wife and fellow director, Gill Conroy, saying she was the driving influence behind Riccall Care’s success, and suggesting if there were more people like her in Government the country would be in a better state - to possibly the loudest cheers of the night.

The judges had said the quality of the Family Business category was the highest ever seen in the awards, but had chosen Riccall Care, which was founded in 1984 when Mrs Conroy’s parents sold the family home and bought a care home, and which now employs more than 200 people.