A BUSINESSWOMAN who runs her own food company in Tormarton has made the final three for a national award.

Noreen Finnamore, managing director of Buckley and Beale, is in the running to become the Natwest Everywoman businesswoman of the year 2015.

Mother-of-two Mrs Finnamore, who has run the company with her partner Adrian Beale for the past five years after a successful career as a strategic management consultation in the health care sector, said she honoured to have been shortlisted.

The 55-year-old told the Gazette: “I am thrilled and honoured to even be considered a role model for women in business.

“Everywoman do an awful lot for young woman to fulfil their potential, that is why these awards are so important.

“I am a wife, a mother and I have my business. If other women see role models in business they will think it can be done, it is not impossible.”

Buckley and Beale is a small food import business, wholesaler and distributor of speciality foods from the UK, Ireland and America which supplies well known retailers including Marks and Spencer.

Mrs Finnamore, who has two step-children and two teenage sons, will find out if she has won the award at a ceremony at the Dorchester Hotel in London on December 2.

Everywoman co-founder Maxine Benson said: “Thirteen years ago, there were very few role models who women could identify with, and that’s why we launched this programme. “Today it is commonplace to read of women starting a business, but the extent and scale of their success is often overlooked.

“It is crucial to shout about the success women are achieving, sometimes in a short space of time, and often having established sustained growth over many years.”