Liz Doogan-Hobbs?
Liz Doogan-Hobbs? story is the stuff of legend. Suffering a near fatal accident as a world champion sportswoman, she pursued a career in broadcasting before launching the phenomenally successful Liz Hobbs Group Ltd events company, credited with galvanising the dwindling British live music and horse-racing industries. Today, the 52 year old, from Newark has been named as winner of the 2012 NatWest everywoman Award, honouring the most passionate and dedicated woman business owner who has overcome significant challenges to achieve success.The qualities that helped Liz Doogan-Hobbs become a World Champion have undoubtedly aided her meteoric business success. It takes a certain type of person with raw grit and determination to suffer a near fatal accident and come back to successfully defend a world title, but Liz did just this when she became the World Water Ski Race Champion for the second time in 1983.
After retiring from competitive sport, Liz worked in media and entertainment before moving into artist management for sports, theatre and television personalities. Fusing her passions for sport and music she identified an opportunity to provide music concerts after sporting events. This had two major benefits as a business model ? with attendance at sporting events, horse racing in particular, in decline the introduction of live music opened the sport up to a new audience. Furthermore the music industry was feeling the squeeze with the rise of internet downloads yet live performances continued to provide a significant income for artists.
Despite early scepticism the racing and music industries embraced the idea, which has since taken off. Liz Hobbs Group now provides the largest revenue stream to the racing industry and has since expanded into other sports. Listed as one of the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 companies, Liz Hobbs Group turns over ?7m annually and has worked with some of the world?s biggest artists including Tom Jones, Rod Stewart and Razorlight. Outside of work she has supported numerous charities and this year aims to raise ?1 million for Breast Cancer Research.
The NatWest everywoman Awards are celebrating 10 years of showcasing the diversity and phenomenal success of women business owners across the UK. In the past decade, these awards have raised the profile of hundreds of women of all ages, across every imaginable sector, demonstrating the impact of female owned enterprises, which contribute a staggering ?130 billion to the UK economy each year*. The extraordinary achievements of previous winners and finalists have played a huge role in encouraging other women to start and grow a business.
Winner Liz Doogan-Hobbs MBE commented: ?I would like to say thank you to NatWest Everywoman Awards, the sponsor of this award, my NatWest rock Andy Procter, and of course my family, who I?m thrilled are here. Coming here today and being among such inspirational businesswomen, I never imagined I would be crowned as the winner of the NatWest everywoman Award. Everybody as individuals have the opportunity to realise their potential, they just have to want it!?
Commenting on this year?s winners, everywoman co-founder, Karen Gill MBE, says, ?Over the past ten years we have uncovered incredible stories of professional triumphs, so many of which have been in the face of incredible adversity. This year more than ever the judges were humbled by the extraordinary tenacity and determination shown by the finalists. Drive to succeed takes on new meaning with these women and the word ?inspiring? doesn?t do justice to their achievements. We know that there are thousands of women around the UK with a business idea and we are here to support them as their concept turns into reality. Today?s winners are testimony that with hard work and persistence ? dreams of enterprise can come true.?
Andy Procter, Senior Relationship Manager, NatWest commented: ?We are so proud of everything that Liz has achieved with the Liz Hobbs Group and there could not be a more worthy winner of the NatWest everywoman Award. The challenges that Liz has had to overcome to make her business the success that it is today have been significant and I have been privileged to work with Liz through some of these. I look forward to continuing to support Liz and her business, and to witnessing many more award successes!?
The awards were hosted by Olivia Sterns, of Bloomberg Television at the Dorchester and attended by a host of high profile women entrepreneurs including Cath Kidston MBE; Chrissie Rucker MBE, founder of The White Company; Anna Lee, co-founder of Storm Watches, and Eve Lom.
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