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million people it attracts every year not only watch shows but attend gala nights, private dinners, slick corporate events and stellar entertainment with production value of the West End. It continues to increase its turnover year-on-year.


Cityserve: Birmingham City Council’s education, hospitality and food service business provides 65,000 school meals daily. The business has been transformed to provide “home-made high quality food freshly prepared and cooked on each school site where possible using seasonal and local produce reducing our carbon footprint whilst supporting local suppliers”. It offers a menu which can be varied by the school and students at any time.


Conference Aston: This subsidiary of Aston University is Birmingham’s largest residential conference centre and in 2017 had a record turnover.


Dallas Burston Polo Club: The 600- acre site has resources for corporate events and conferences, weddings and other celebrations, hospitality, polo and equine events, outdoor events and music and entertainment. It has also created The Millstone Hare, Britain’s only fully-thatched inn built in the last 80 years. The site has the largest equine arena in Europe and its £122 million development programme is well under way.


Edgbaston Stadium: Not only one of the premier cricket grounds in the world, Edgbaston is also a regional leader in non-match-day conferences and events and a community hub. Its strategic plan is to be “the best cricket business in the world”. Significant changes resulted in a re-structured conference and events sales team, an electronic booking system plus a shake-up of in-ground hospitality facilities.


Millennium Point: This Eastside keynote building houses Think Tank, Birmingham Science Museum and tenants with interests in education, science, technology, engineering


and maths (STEM). Turnover and growth at the 500,000 sq ft venue, which launched the regeneration of Eastside in 2001, has increased over the past three years. With heavy investment in staff, the turnover of events and hospitality doubled in 2016-17.


The Belfry Hotel & Resort: Customer service is the cornerstone of the business, which includes golf, business, leisure and spa facilities. In 2016 they entered the family market and developed mini golf, a woodland walk, a playground, sports camp and bedrooms. The golf team continues to build on its world-class facilities and has delivered massive growth in corporate golf revenue since 2014.


Excellence in International Business


Sponsors: Arup


Addfield Environmental Systems Ltd: The manufacturer of incinerators and cremators has performed strongly throughout the UK and internationally. Addfield provide machines to over 100 countries with a reputation for reliability and quality. Customers get full after-sales support globally and they are becoming major international players, including transforming the way medical waste is handled in developing countries.


AFL Architects: AFL have already delivered projects for cities hosting major events in the UK and overseas and have grown their international business. They aim to be the architects of choice for all cities hosting major events and are working on Turkey’s bid to stage the UEFA European Championships 2024.


Celsium Powered by Brunel: The company supports businesses in relocating employees and Brunel, based in the Netherlands, has been its parent company since 2017. For the past two years they have been building their service locally and globally and is now a multi-million euro, publicly-listed, global staffing


company with more than 10,000 employees worldwide. They have pioneered new ideas in the sector, including 24-7 support across many time zones.


International Synergies Limited: ISL strives to lead the world in industrial ecology solutions for a low carbon, sustainable economy. Over the last decade they have positioned themselves as the world leaders in the application of facilitated industrial symbiosis, which is designed to help businesses and organisations to operate in the same way as the natural eco-system where everything has a place and function, and nothing goes to waste.


Mills & Reeve LLP: The major UK law firm has a record of advising international clients. They have over 500 lawyers operating from Birmingham and nationally and in the past two years their turnover has been derived from increasing their international work. Last year, the company was active in 75 countries and their lawyers visited a number of global cities.


Moflash Signalling Ltd: For this independently-owned manufacturer of visual and acoustic signalling devices, exporting represents 65 per cent of its turnover. The company turnover has grown by 19 per cent with part of sales going for export.


University of Birmingham: The university have partners internationally with permanent representation in Dubai, Brazil, China, India and Nigeria and offices in Brussels. It also makes a global impact through its world-leading research and has made a huge impact and imposing influence abroad by helping to solve many issues. Birmingham regards itself as a global university in every sense and they are among the top 100 in the world.


Y International: The Witton-based company exports food and non- food products to Lulu Hypermarkets in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab


Emirates, Oman, Bahrain and Qatar. Turnover has grown 70 per cent since 2015 largely by increasing its trading categories and promotional activity. Their business centres around exporting as many British products as possible through its Birmingham hub, averaging almost 20 loads every week.


Excellence in Manufacturing


Sponsors: Universal Document Solutions Ltd


Addfield Environmental Systems Ltd: The manufacturer of incinerators and cremators makes all of their products, from the smallest pet cremation machine to the largest municipal waste management plant, at their facilities in Burntwood. Build excellence is maintained through design, construction and components. This year the company aims to double its turnover.


Biolite: The producer of fertiliser for agriculture and amenity providers is fundamentally changing an industry in which there have been no significant developments for the 30 years. It makes use of by-products having invested heavily in the development of technology that makes use of materials that would otherwise be sent to landfill, which are detrimental to the community and costly for the producer.


Bromford Industries: The specialist manufacturer of precision machined components for commercial airline aero engines and main landing gear has made great strides in the past three years. Already well known in the UK and France aero supply chains, the leadership and their colleagues are striving to grow into new markets through a “truly international dynamic” including world-wide acquisitions resulting in more jobs.


KEP Print Group: The commercial print company counts major retailers, marketing agencies and print companies among their customers. It has been producing


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