The Orange Leader of the Year. From Left Martin McCourt, CEO, Dyson (Winner 2010), Ruby McGregor Smith, CEO, MITIE Group (Winner 2011) and Olaf Swantee, CEO, Everything Everywhere
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THE PRIDE OF BRITISH BUSINESSES
HONOURED NATIONAL BUSINESS AWARDS 2011 WINNERS ANNOUNCED
The cream of British business celebrated last night at the prestigious and influential National Business Awards in partnership with Orange at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.
Now in its tenth year, the annual event which recognises excellence, innovation and ethics among UK plc, saw the best of British business celebrate the hard won achievements of exemplary organisations and individuals throughout the public and private sectors.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt Hon George Osborne MP delivered the welcome address to over 1,100 top UK business leaders and entrepreneurs in attendance including Dr Richard Ward, CEO, Lloyd’s; Jasmine Whitbread, International CEO, Save the
12 entrepreneurcountry Children;
Martin McCourt, CEO, Dyson and Lord Wolfson, Chief Executive of Next who won the Daily Telegraph Award for a Decade of Excellence in Business.
Awarded for her exceptional leadership it was Ruby McGregor- Smith, CEO, MITIE Group, who won the prestigious Orange Leader of the Year accolade; the only National Business Award to be determined by an expert panel of judges from across the business community, as well as by public vote. Under McGregor- Smith’s leadership, MITIE Group has become one of the largest integrated facilities management providers in the UK.
“The National Business Awards are a celebration of the very best in British business. They are a unique
opportunity to recognise the hard work you all do, as small businesses or multi-national companies, to achieve commercial success”, said Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt Hon George Osborne MP.
“Day in and day out I meet the sorts of businesses that are up for an Award this year and they all have one thing in common: a relentless capacity to focus on results. It is from that effort and endeavour that great things emerge – new ideas, new products and new jobs”, the Chancellor added.
Wakefield-based Harvard
Engineering won the Orange Innovation Award, impressing the judges with its innovative wireless street-lighting system which saved their customers £322m per annum and reduced their carbon emissions by 700m kgs per annum - “A triumph
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