wednesday 21st november 2012, Central London

The GG2 Leadership Awards in partnership with Royal Navy and Royal Air Force are hosted by the Asian Media & Marketing Group (AMG). AMG is Britain's biggest Asian publishing house. With a 44 year heritage, AMG publishes a stable of market leading magazines for the Asian community in the UK and USA. The company hosts a number of hugely successful events and award dinners affiliated with its magazines.

Launched in 1999, the GG2 Leadership Awards is the premier ceremony highlighting and showcasing ethnic achievement. All award winners are outstanding individuals who have excelled and overcome barriers against the odds.

BRITAIN'S deputy prime minister Nick Clegg was the chief guest at last years event who spoke on the theme of leadership and also launched the first issue of GG2/Eastern Eye Power 101, a compilation of the 101 most powerful Asians in Britain. More than 800 people attended the annual gala celebration of ethnic talent when 10 very special people were recognised for their amazing achievements.

The GG2 Leadership Awards dinner, now in its fourteenth year, attracts a diverse and powerful audience of high achievers. Cabinet minister mix with film stars, blue chip company bosses mingle with film personalities and the country's top military brass and police officers meet self-made millionaires. Also joining the evening are a host of community leaders, businessmen and women and high net worth individuals from the Asian community.

Kalpesh Solanki, AMG's managing editor, made a keynote speech calling upon companies to recognise and promote Asian talent in a changing Britain.

The awards dinner is the culmination of a year long programme designed to give sponsors reach and penetration into the dynamic Asian and ethnic community. The sponsorship package has the twin aims of promoting the sponsoring company as an employer of choice amongst ethnic communities and to promote their goods and services to this dynamic market.