{"id":5778,"date":"2012-02-09T12:51:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T12:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/02\/09\/penny-pinching-entrepreneur-scoops-award\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T13:26:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T13:26:40","slug":"penny-pinching-entrepreneur-scoops-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/09\/penny-pinching-entrepreneur-scoops-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Penny pinching Entrepreneur scoops award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Suleman Sacranie named Midlands Young Entrepreneur of the Year<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"middle\" width=\"460\" height=\"327\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/SulemanSacranie_460x225.jpg\"\/><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong\/><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong\/><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong>A FORMER University of Leicester student who dropped out to launch a discount shopping website has been named Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the Midlands Business Awards.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Suleman Sacranie, the brains behind 99pWholesaler.com, won his award after beating off the challenge of five other contenders. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He received the trophy from sponsor Guy Ashworth of HCK Communications at a ceremony at the 2012 Midlands Business Awards, held earlier this month at the NEC Hilton Metropole Hotel. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>99p Wholesaler.com is the third company to have been set up by Mr Sacranie. It features daily deals across the FMCG industry at competitive prices and offers branded goods for bulk purchases by retailers in a similar way to the traditional cash and carry model but online. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Suleman said: \u201cI am delighted to have won this award. It recognises the huge efforts my team have put in and the support of my backers.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0He also paid tribute to the University of Leicester, particularly Rajinder Bhuhi, Enterprise Learning Officer who was on stage with him to collect the award.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Rajinder said: \u201cSuleman was shocked and delighted to win. He was very\u00a0grateful for our nomination and all the support we\u00a0have given.\u00a0It is great to see his\u00a0commitment and determination\u00a0acknowledged\u00a0for\u00a0starting his businesses\u00a0and attracting investment.\u201d <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>This is the sixth year that the awards, organised by Leamington Spa-based UK Special Events, have taken place.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Its MD Harj Sandher said: \u201cWe are delighted with the quality of the entrants this year and very pleased for Suleman. His drive and enterprise are quite breathtaking for someone so young.\u201d <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>There was also a special Lifetime Contribution to Midlands Business award to vice-chancellor Prof Sir Robert Burgess recognising his work in growing the University of Leicester.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suleman Sacranie named Midlands Young Entrepreneur of the Year &#13; &#13; &#13; A FORMER University of Leicester student who dropped out to launch a discount shopping website has been named Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the Midlands Business Awards. &#13; Suleman Sacranie, the brains behind 99pWholesaler.com, won his award after beating off the challenge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}