Postoptics boss wins award for entrepreneurs

In a ceremony at London's Grosvenor House Hotel last week business magazine Enterprise rewarded five companies, calling the bosses 'the Bransons and Dysons of tomorrow'. Mr Rowley, who founded the company four years ago, has helped turnover increase year-on-year by over 200 per cent, and now exceeds &\#163;4m. Based in York, the company employs 23 staff and is currently expanding into its own purpose-built call centre with warehousing and distribution. He said the award was a great boost for his management team and staff. Mr Rowley added that he was looking forward to new General Optical Council regulations regarding online sales. 'The proposals mirror almost exactly the procedures under which we operate,' he said, ' and will hopefully control some of the less scrupulous mail-order suppliers that are starting to appear in the UK.' He and the five other business leaders recognised at the ceremony now have the opportunity to attend a special day-long workshop at the London Business School. Other winners were an online bookseller, a computer software distributor and a marketing and communications agency. 'We have great expectations for these thriving new enterprises,' said Bronagh Miskelly, editor of Enterprise. 'The Future 100 Entrepreneurs award is intended to identify people that are likely to feature one day in our definitive annual list of the UK's top entrepreneurs.'