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Yorkshire businessman nominated for business person of the year award.

Local Managing Director Jason Mace of Gala Tent Ltd has been shortlisted for Business Person of the Year at the South Yorkshire Business Awards. Jason has enjoyed some great successes over the past years, and a lot of progress in the past 12 months alone. In November 2013, he opened his new venture, the Double Barrel Steakhouse in Thurcroft. This coupled with another one of his new ventures, the Real SteakStone Company, which has tapped into both the home dining and fine dining markets. Jason has also enjoyed sustained growth within the marquee manufacturing industry with Gala Tent going from strength to strength.

Gala Tent has also successfully taken on several international distributors for their products in Ireland, Belgium, Slovenia and Holland. With the ambition of becoming an international player in the Marquee business Jason is hoping to expand on this and gain further distributors around Europe and eventually the rest of the world. Jason said, “Expansion is the key to Gala Tent’s success, tapping into countries we had previously not sold in provides us with a wider market to sell our products. We hope to become a serious European player in the marquee business over the next few years and have a showroom in every major city”.

Jason said, “It would be a great honour to have my achievements acknowledged in this way by receiving this highly commended Award. I am extremely happy with my nomination”. The nomination has come in an extremely busy year for Jason, a year full of expansions and developments within his business. The Awards will be held at the Victoria Hotel in Sheffield on 7th November 2014.

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