The toast is women in business as 21 award-winners spotlight their sex's growing role in British enterprise

Britain's budding women entrepreneurs toasted future success yesterday after winning a competition to find the country's growing businesses run by women. The 21 businesswomen - who included a crane and lorry dealer, a piano restorer and a fruit and vegetable importer - were selected by Cosmopolitan magazine and won a week's training course at London Business School.

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