32 . Glasgow Business June 2016


PROFILE The Glasgow Business Awards 2015 Winner Profile: A.C. Whyte & Co The Glasgow Business Awards main sponsor


Jennifer Phin, Managing Director, A.C. Whyte & Co with Fred MacAulay and Annemarie O’Donnell, Chief Executive, Glasgow City Council


Family foundations A.C. Whyte & Co builds on reputation to win top award for third year running A


.C. Whyte & Co won the Family Business of the Year category for the third year in a row


at Te Glasgow Business Awards 2015, sponsored by Bank of Scotland – the first company ever to have done that. Family values and customer


service are the heart and soul of A.C. Whyte & Co, the multi award-winning family business, based in Barrhead. Te ethos has been reinforced by the appointment of Jennifer Phin who took over as Managing Director in December 2015. Her father, Robert, a chartered surveyor, steered the company for many years and remains a key influence for Jennifer and her team in delivering quality construction services. A.C. Whyte, founded in 1973,


has been at the forefront of delivering integrated housing


improvement schemes in Glasgow and across Scotland, helping to create warm, comfortable homes for thousands of people. Te company, working with a


host of local authorities and housing associations, undertakes the full upgrading of the external fabric of houses, tenements and flats. In a sector once dominated by lowest-cost tendering, A.C. Whyte sets its stall out as a business dedicated to service excellence and ‘Geting It Right First Time’. It has around 160 employees and undertakes all main trade work, only subcontracting minor specialist works. “Te family ethos is so


ingrained in all that we do. Our team members are passionate and proud of what we stand for and how we deliver,” says Jennifer. “We would never steer away from this.” Te changing landscape,


driven by a need to make all kinds of Scotish homes more energy efficient, has created fresh markets, allowing A.C. Whyte to deliver their service proposition for private households. “We deliver a fully-managed,


end-to-end journey. Where we are doing work for private householders, it is part of the larger funded schemes that we deliver. We believe in an area- based approach, a key part of the Scotish Government funding. Typically, in the past, with social housing projects, it was the Batenberg cake effect where social houses were treated and oſten the private ones were leſt out,’’ says Jennifer. A.C. Whyte works alongside


local authorities, housing associations, private landlords and private homeowners, to improve an entire area, with the value to private homes around £10,000


per property. “It is a really good news story,” she says. Typical projects are the


refurbishment of more than 500 properties in Springburn, valued at £3.5m, delivered in six months, and a regeneration project in Cumbernauld, in its fourth phase, accounting for 750 homes. “It is a partnership approach.


We support clients by scoping the project, working up the cost, and then marketing and communicating with people in their homes. We deliver through high-quality installation and a friendly and professional aſtercare service. It has worked really well,” says Jennifer. She says the response from


householders has been nothing short of brilliant. “Our teams are extremely proud that we have been able to transform the communities where we have been working.’


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