Congratulations to the following businesses for reaching the first interview stage of the BIBAs 2014
| Business of the Year | New Business of the Year |
| Bleep UK PLC | All You Knead |
| Chemical Innovations | Astute Motoring |
| Direct365 | Cakes By Ruth |
| Granby Marketing Services | ChocAmor |
| I C G Brandbuilders | Colossal Training |
| Inspired Energy Plc | Contrado Digital Ltd |
| Lailas Fine foods | Forward2me Limited |
| New Call Telecom | Little G’s Pre-School Limited |
| Story Homes | Love My Limited |
| Suresite Group | Pawberry Dog Wear |
| The Stocks Hall Nursing & Care Group | Remvox Ltd |
| White Moss Horticulture Ltd | The Networking People |
| Small Business of the Year | Excellence in Customer Service |
| Ainscough Training Services Ltd | Ainscough Training Services Ltd |
| Bleep UK PLC | CER Associates Ltd |
| Chantelle Lighting | Chestnut Business Solutions |
| C M Oxendale | Community Life Choices |
| Connect 2 Cleanrooms Ltd | Hesketh Press |
| Direct365 | New Call Telecom |
| Inteb Sustainablity | NuBlue |
| Lamps & Lighting Ltd | Parbold Equestrian Centre |
| Lantei | Paul Turner Displays |
| Peter Jackson the Jeweller | Springhill Care |
| Suresite Group | The Marriot Hotel |
| The REACH Centre | Via Partnership |
| Service Business of the Year | Employer of the Year |
| Assured Cleaning Services Ltd | Ascentis |
| Businesswise Solutions | Clayton Recruitment Group |
| Fairbanks Environmental Ltd | Connect 2 Cleanrooms Ltd |
| Fylde Executive Cars Ltd | Connect Childcare |
| Gconnect | Fairbanks Environmental Ltd |
| Granby Marketing Services | Inspired Energy Plc |
| I C G Brandbuilders | KTG Social Care |
| KTG Social Care | Magma Digital Ltd |
| Pakawaste Engineering Services Ltd | Springhill Care |
| Preston Bus | Taylor Patterson Group |
| RKMS | The Stocks Hall Nursing & Care Group |
| Springhill Care | True Bearing Chartered |
| Micro Business of the Year | Business Woman of the Year |
| Colossal Training | Amanda Jackson – Tigerfish PR |
| Gconnect | Claire Fryer – The Mosaic Care Group |
| Group55 | Janet Thornton – Inspired Energy |
| Longthorne Gunmakers Ltd | Jo Varey – Granby Marketing Services |
| Pennine Events Ltd | Karen O’Donoghue – Via Partnership |
| Principle Signs & Graphics Ltd | Kerian Barns – Starboard Hotels |
| Silverwoods Waste Management Ltd | Michelle Cuffe & Felicity Lacey – Excel Fostering |
| Talent Dynamics | Nicolla Bishop – Home Angels Chorley |
| The Ink Squid Limited | Rose Watkins – Centaur Training Services (North West) Ltd |
| The Little Big Voice | Saira Hussain – Hussain Architectural Design Ltd |
| Training Station | Sarah Gronback – Little G’s Pre-School Limited |
| WJF Technical Support Limited | Sarah Southworth – Specialised Cleaning Services (North West) Ltd |
| Entrepreneur of the Year | Exporter of the Year |
| Claire Fryer – The Mosaic Care Group | Chelsom Limited |
| Mohammed Patel – Lance Mason | Chemical Innovations |
| Jane Peters – Nineteen Legal | First Trace Heating Direct Ltd |
| Janet Thornton – Inspired Energy Plc | Heskins |
| Jim Elliot – Hangerworld | Pakawaste Ltd |
| Joe Govier – Connect 2 Cleanrooms Ltd | Scorpion Automotive |
| Julian Silverwood – Silverwoods Waste Management | Sovereign Secure Limited |
| Nigel Eastwood – New Call Telecom | Talent Dynamics |
| Simon Booth – Astute Motoring | Tangerine Holdings |
| Steve Brennan – Bespoke Internet Ltd | Tetrad |
| Steve Pearson – Remvox Ltd | TISS Ltd |
| Laila & Nazir Remtulla – Lailas Fine Foods | Trelleborg Offshore UK Ltd |
| Creative Business of the Year | E Business of the Year |
| Bespoke Internet Ltd | Connect 2 Cleanrooms Ltd |
| Chelsom Lighting | Contrado Digital |
| Contrado Digital | Direct365 |
| I C G Brandbuilders | Hanger World |
| Jelly Media | Kidderoo |
| Kiddiroo | Suntana Spray Tan Ltd |
| Knight Time Creations | Talent Dynamics |
| Marmalade Toast | The Ink Squid |
| SPS EU Ltd | Transpares |
| Stone Create | Ula – la – beauty |
| WebsiteUK Ltd | WebsiteUK Ltd |
| YouMeSign | |
| Medium Business of the Year | Manufacturer of the Year |
| A M Support Services | Bleep UK PLC |
| Ascentis | Chemical Innovations |
| Blackpool Zoo | Chelsom |
| Crow Wood Leisure | Lailas Fine foods |
| Elitetele.com | Longthorne Gunmakers Ltd |
| Granby Marketing Services | Pakawaste Ltd |
| Lance Mason | Remvox LTD |
| Promenade Hotels Ltd | Scorpion Automotive |
| Scorpion Automotive | SPS EU Ltd |
| SPS EU Ltd | Tangerine Holdings Limited |
| Tangerine Holdings Limited | Tetrad |
| Via Partnership | White Moss Horticulture |
| Construction Business of the Year | Professional Business of the Year |
| Cassidy + Ashton | Astute Wealth Management |
| C M Oxendale | Cassidy + Ashton |
| Conlon Construction | CER Associates Ltd |
| Homestead CSL | Chestnut Business Solutions |
| Hussain Architectural Design Ltd | Clayton Recruitment |
| Jones Melling Ltd | Damson UK Ltd |
| Pinington Ltd | Jones Melling Ltd |
| Story Homes | Lance Mason |
| Leisure Business of the Year | Magma Digital Ltd |
| Blackpool Zoo | Taylor Patterson Group |
| Crow Wood Leisure Ltd | True Bearing Chartered |
| Fylde Executive Cars Ltd | |
| Longthorne Gunmakers Ltd | |
| Parbold Equestrian Centre | |
| Promenade Hotels Ltd | |
| Starboard Hotels Group | |
| The Wellbeing Farm | |
| Winter Gardens Blackpool | |
| Wyrebank |