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Thanks for downloading this episode of the Bottom Line podcast, included a bonus nuggets of conversation that you won't find in the Radio 4 version.

It's our gift to you for being such a loyal listener.

If you like this episode, then once it's finished, you might want to check out one we had from March this year,

in which we put your business questions to our expert panel.

Now, this, you know, is the last episode in the current Radio 4 series of the bottom line before the summer break.

And this time last year, we did something a little bit different,

and we hosted the very first bottom line

awards. Looking back at the highs and lows of the year in business and it went very well,

we thought, so we're doing it again. Now sadly for the bottom line awards, there aren't

any prizes, you just get bragging right. This is totally unofficial. It's a way of reviewing

the year in business. And when I say year,

we do it by the school year because we're original, not the calendar year. And we have three

wonderful high-powered judges to help us recap the last 12 months and nominate in the categories.

And this is how it's going to work. We have three categories, business

or business person of the year, marketing moment or initiative of the year, and business disaster

or blunder of the year. So those are our three categories. Each of our judges makes a nomination

in each category. Judges, you're not allowed to nominate your own businesses, your own products or your own enemies, I'm afraid.

That is just, you'll have to leave off that.

We have a few other...

Honestly, I was so tempted.

Yeah.

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