1st CENTRAL are the Employer of the Year,
presented by Trish Breach, MD, Search Consultancy
Avtura Limited win The Award for Innovation &
Technology
Beverley Thompson of Southern Water presents the
Award for Corporate Responsibility to ILG
Councillor Colin Lloyd, Environment Portfolio Holder of
Crawley Borough Council, Green Business Programme,
presents Green Business of the Year to Sony DADC UK Ltd
David Rawlance of Lloyds Bank presents
Professional Services Firm of the Year Award to
Carpenter Box
RocketMill are Digital Marketing Firm of the Year
2015
Russell Fernandes of NatWest presents Business of
the Year to B&CE
Julie Kapsalis, Vice-Principal, of Chichester College presents
Digital Marketing Business of the Year to RocketMill
Keith Pordum of Pordum Foods Ltd ta Bon Appetit is
Business Person of the Year
Sarah Wright, Principal, Central Sussex College
presents The Award for Developing People for
Business Success to Virgin Holidays
Mayo Wynne Baxter win The Award for Customer
Delight presented by Matt Saunders, MD, of Storm
Creative
Nick Broom, MD, PVL presents The Award for Place
to Meet to Southcoast Conferences, University of
Brighton
Target in 1 Limited win New Business of the Year,
presented by Paul Roe & Shirley Smith of Kreston
Reeves
The gdb Team at the Gatwick Diamond Business
Awards 2015
Varian Medical Systems win The Award for Supply
Chain Excellence, presented by Helen Kirk-Brown of
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Hosted by comedian, Hugh Dennis, and the awards dinner
was a culmination of hundreds of hours of hard work by the
sponsors, judges, organisers and the entrants themselves.
Our chief executive, Chris Randall, said: “I am extremely pleased
that we were chosen as the winners. For us, providing exceptional
service to our clients is at the heart of what we do, and this
recognition of our achievement in this area gives us a real sense
of pride and accomplishment. We won because of the passionate
commitment of our staff to deliver the very best service to our
clients, and the very positive feedback we receive as a result.”
way of delivering customer delight, backed up with publicallyvisible client satisfaction levels that proved their ideas were
working. An all-round, impressive entry.
Matt Saunders, managing director of Storm Creative, who
judged the entries said: “The winner of this award provided
convincing evidence of an organised, successful and distinctive
“The competition this year was very hotly contested.”
Jeremy Taylor, founder of the awards said: “Each year we
get more and more interest in the awards and this year, our
seventh, gave another record number of entries. It was also a
record number of attendees, all who came along to reflect on
and recognise the quality, diversity and achievement of some
outstanding businesses and the people who work for them.
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