The 2024 winners of the prestigious Gatwick Diamond Business Awards were announced on 21st March to a packed audience at The Grand Hotel, Brighton.  

Now in their 16^th year, the Awards are a well-established highlight of the business calendar and are strongly supported by the Gatwick Diamond business community with Headline Sponsors Arora Group, Birketts LLP, Elekta Ltd and London Gatwick.

Celebrating the achievements of individual businesses and business people across a wide range of categories, they also showcase the success of the Gatwick Diamond economic area as major driver of the regional and national economies.

This year’s ceremony was hosted by the acclaimed character comedian, Simon Brodkin. Simon’s many television appearances include Live at the Apollo and Sunday Night at the Palladium.

The Evening started with a Pre-Dinner Reception sponsored by Cleankill Pest Control and was rounded- off with the now highly anticipated After-Show Party.

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 Simon Brodkin, acclaimed character comedian and “the world’s most famous blagger” (The Daily Telegraph), Simon is now performing as himself and is fresh off a sold-out,  critically acclaimed 120-date international tour with his  latest show, Screwed Up. The show had performed to sold-out audiences at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2022 and Dominic Maxwell (The Times) said “no show has made (him) laugh more than this one…”.

Simon’s many television appearances include Live at the Apollo and Sunday Night at the Palladium, as well as his own documentary Britain’s Greatest Hoaxer on Channel 4. Simon hit global headlines multiple times for his high-profile stunts, including handing Theresa May a P45 during her speech at the Conservative Party Conference, showering disgraced FIFA president Sepp Blatter with bank notes, crashing Donald Trump’s golf course opening, and going on Britain’s Got Talent as the ultra-orthodox Jewish rapper Steven Goldblatt – fooling Simon Cowell and the other judges to win four ‘yeses’. Britain’s Greatest Hoaxer was nominated for best Documentary at the Monte Carlo TV Festival Golden Nymph Awards 2018.

Recently, Simon broke records on TikTok with one of his videos reaching over 40 million views, making it the most viewed video by any British comedian ever.’