GottaBe! builds on FMBE tally with Small Business Growth Awards
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GottaBe!, a Southampton-based marketing agency, has been awarded both a winner and a runner-up award at the HSBC and FSB Small Business Growth Awards for the South and Thames Valley region.
The agency, which boasts a DEI-focused marketing branch through its GottaBe! Ethnic arm, won in the Diversity & Inclusion Award category for South and Thames Valley.
The brand experience and sampling division of the agency, GottaBe! Marketing, was also named the runner-up in the Expansion & Growth Award category during the ceremony held at the Hilton Randolph Hotel in Oxford on Tuesday night.
Tomasz Dyl, Founder & Managing Director at GottaBe! said: “These awards belong to the whole team. Winning the Diversity & Inclusion Award and being runner up for Expansion & Growth is recognition of the collective effort we put into making a real difference in the marketing landscape.
DEI isn’t a ‘nice to have’ and it can’t be swept under the carpet – as we may unfortunately see elsewhere. We all have a responsibility to keep pushing ourselves to do better, and I’m hugely grateful to everyone who shows up every day to make that happen”.
The HSBC and FSB Small Business Growth Awards 2026 aim to give winners both regional and national exposure by celebrating outstanding UK small businesses and self‑employed individuals across eight categories. These include family business, innovation, sustainability, diversity and inclusion, service excellence, and expansion and growth. The awards recognise entrants for their contribution to business growth, exceptional customer service, and positive community impact.
Coming up trumps in the Diversity & Inclusion Award category represents the incredible work that is being done at GottaBe! Ethnic to challenge industry norms and champions those brands looking to do the same, continually growing their client base, which already includes leading names such as Western Union, DKMS, National Trust and the impact their work has.
“Expansion & Growth runners-up highlight the team’s continual work to avoid sitting on their laurels. We saw massive growth last financial year, with a mightily impressive 47.8% revenue growth year-on-year, upsizing our offices and continuing team growth in both numbers and expertise” said Dyl.
As category winners, GottaBe! has been invited to the National Final in London (4th June), where the National winner will be crowned.
This is not the agency’s first win this year, GottaBe! picked up 3 awards at the FMBE Awards in London, including Gold for Best Small Scale Campaign for Western Union and two Bronze awards in the Client Retention category for their work with Norton and Western Union.