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quality products for 39 years and is dedicated to excellence in customer service. It also keeps pace with the enormous changes in the industry and proactively provides solutions for clients, champions sustainability and environmental responsibility. Caring for its employees and surrounding community are priorities.
RotoSpa Ltd: The manufacturer of hot tubs is a family-owned and run business established for over 15 years. Their main customers are holiday parks, hot tub dealers and hire companies. They have great passion for their local community and Birmingham in general and they have plans for expansion by further innovation. They are one of the only companies in the UK that produces their spas through a rotational moulding process. They also ensure continual development through an employee-based culture.
Excellence in People Development
Sponsors:West Midland Reserve Forces & Cadets Association
A-Plant: The plant hire company is so dedicated to developing their workforce that in 2017 their staff attended 15,000-plus training days. Through the company’s dedicated training department, staff embark on progression routes and has led to some progressing to director level. Apprenticeships are key to the business and their investment in the initiative is now over £2 million. A- Plant also has a retention rate higher that the industry average.
Amey plc: The public services giant has a “Grow with Amey” philosophy and recognises that everything they do across the business is achieved by their employees. About 360 of their workforce are directly involved with the Birmingham Highways service and in the first seven years of the partnership with Birmingham City Council the contract provided opportunities for 39 apprentices, 10 graduates and four “Year in Industry” students.
Common Purpose: The leadership and training not-for-profit organisation is dedicated to people development with formal programmes and the support of hundreds of people with informal development opportunities, like board positions and mentoring. They believe in helping people to become better leaders and give them an on-going network and opportunities to keep developing. The organisation employs two people in Birmingham and 30-35 in the UK.
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Curium Solutions Limited: The change consultancy works on empowering personal and business potential. Every member of the Curium team is certified in TetraMap, a behavioural framework which enables them to coach and develop people regardless of the type of change and project activity they are involved with. Curium has developed the “1% Club”, a concept that challenges staff to find one per cent extra for clients and colleagues to unlock their potential.
Shelforce: The manufacturer of windows and doors is part of Birmingham City Council has reinvented its business model over the past three years by investing in the diversity of its workforce. In doing so it has transformed the organisation from one incurring losses to delivering a surplus for the Council. Shelforce equips its largely disabled workforce with the skills and self-belief to maximise their potential.
SOTI: The privately-owned specialist in mobility management is currently helping more than 17,000 customers manage around 20,000,000 devices in industries ranging from retail and manufacturing to government and healthcare. Recognising that people are at the heart of their business, SOTI has a variety of programmes that allow for recognition, including a global peer-to-peer programme called SOTI You Rock.
Sport Birmingham: The charity delivers leadership, investment and support to community organisations which deliver sport and physical activity particularly to the most disadvantaged and under- represented in society. A project called “The Birmingham Way” now underpins all of their work and the model is designed to help people find on-the-job experience through developing life skills that sport and activity can nurture.
Trowers & Hamlins LLP: The solicitors work with all types of businesses across the private and public sector and regard people development as a cornerstone of their strategy. The Birmingham office has embraced the new Solicitors’ Regulation Authority competence regime, to identify and address their learning needs. They also require their solicitors to have personal and business skills which are addressed at “lunch and learn” sessions.
Excellence in Sales and Marketing
Sponsors: Scholars School System
Birmingham City Football Club: The club’s commercial department operates the hospitality, conference and events advertising and
Contribution to the Community: Paul Kehoe, Zaheda Vaid (Muslim Women’s Network UK) and Gyles Brandreth
sponsorship areas. They have recorded good growth on seasonal hospitality, with nearly all executive boxes taken for this season. The Blues Network Business Club has been a resounding success, serving to build on a vital part of commercial operations at St Andrew’s which were much needed following relegation from the Premier League.
Curium: The business change company has grown from a little- known company to a multi award- winning business with many new clients in the Midlands. Their focused sales and marketing approach has developed a compelling proposition for helping organisations deliver the business transformation they need to compete in fast-moving and challenging markets. The team is now driving between eight and 10 new business leads a month.
CV Library: The recruitment company’s sales team is an instrumental part of its success. Recording continued growth, in 2017 they increased revenue by 24 per cent. Making them one of the fastest-growing job boards in the UK. In January this year they created their biggest outdoor advertising campaign.
Infinity IT Solutions: The company provides IT support and infrastructure for SMEs and has experienced continuous growth in personnel and turnover in the past three years. The sales and marketing team has been instrumental in growing the business. Their client is blue chip and their client retention rate is exceptional.
KMB Shipping Group: The freight- forwarding group has shown continuous growth over the past 10 years year-on-year despite many factors impacting on the global economy. Over the past 12 months the company has re-energised a successful marketing department and undergone a rebranding exercise, boosting their social media
Wonder woman: President’s Award winner Sarah-Jane Marsh with Paul Kehoe
presence and undertaking email marketing campaigns with openings above the industry average
Liquid: The public relations and communications company was launched by Lis Lewis-Jones from her mother’s garage in 2004. Growth has been strong in the food division, resulting in a highly successful campaign promoting maple syrup for a Canadian company.
Selfridges Birmingham: Last year was the store’s most successful with the largest sales and profit since opening. This year the store is predicted to beat this growth again despite the ever-challenging high street, an expanding city centre and increasing competition. International customer growth continues, with visitors from China increasing 60 per cent. The store has a creative marketing calendar with a large number of live events in-store.
The Belfry Hotel & Resort: The UK’s No 1 destination for corporate, leisure and golf customers underwent a £26million refurbishment at the end of 2014 and there has been a period over the past three years. This was largely due to the restructure of the marketing and sales teams which now operate an effective on-line and social media presence, press coverage and brand loyalty plus high standards of response to guests’ calls and inquiries.
Excellence in Technology and Innovation
Sponsors: JACOBS
ACUTEC: The IT support company has a strong commitment to striving for innovation using technology. It does so by focussing on client needs and making investments in technology to ensure they understand their relationship with them. A new interactive feedback system has been installed to initiate instant engagement to provide data that is world-class and focussed on the client.
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