Open to organisations employing up to 75 full time staff. This award will go to the company that has achieved consistent growth backed by a strong financial performance, while demonstrating a clear understanding of the markets that it operates in.
Welsh Business Awards
The Welsh Business Awards aim to recognise the very best from businesses across Wales. Our businesses, whether small, medium or large, all play a fundamental role in driving the Welsh economy forward.
Apply for an award Book Gala Dinner ticketsThese awards will celebrate success, excellence in best practice and the contribution Welsh businesses make to the wider community. The Welsh Business Awards are an excellent platform for any business wishing to highlight their achievements, benchmark against the competition, reward their teams and gain the recognition they deserve. You've got to be in it to win it!
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Small Business of the Year
Export Business of the Year
This award recognises the strength of Britain’s exporters. You must stand out from the crowd on the International stage and demonstrate that you have generated significant and/or sustained increases in your export activity.
Best Use of Technology
This award recognises organisations that have fully exploited the range of technology available to them to grow their business. You must demonstrate how you have used the power of technology to transform your business.
High Growth Business of the Year
Open to businesses of all sizes that have experienced exceptional growth in sales, profit, market share, jobs or international trade. You must demonstrate the highest levels of growth with a strong plan for sustainable financial performance.
Employer of the Year
For organisations that demonstrate excellence in the promotion and implementation of a learning and development culture. You must communicate how this culture has contributed to your business achieving outstanding success.
Family Business of the Year
This award is open to businesses of all sizes, in any sector, that is family owned and run by two members of the family. You will need to show how you are preparing the next generation of your family to ensure continued family ownership of the business. Its important to show how the family business nature and values have contributed to success across the business.
Customer Commitment Award
For organisations with a focus on customer service and care, this award has been designed for businesses who can demonstrate excellence and commitment in the ever important area of customer service.
Workplace Wellbeing Award
This award recognises businesses that are creating an environment for their employees to succeed by demonstrating their commitment to the health and wellbeing of their workforce.
Ecommerce Business of the Year
This recognises the strength and creativity of Britain’s e-commerce businesses and the resilience required for the fast-paced nature of doing business online. You must have delivered an outstanding online customer journey, showing responsiveness to customers’ needs, with the business results and growth to match. Standing out from the crowd, taking user experience, design, digital marketing and exceptional end to end purchasing experience to the next level.
Marketing Campaign of the Year
Open to all businesses, not for profits or charities that are maximising their marketing to communicate with people in new and innovative ways. You should be able to demonstrate a clear, inventive use of various forms of marketing such as social media and print while producing effective marketing strategies and campaigns.
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Last Year's Winners
Gallagher
Excellence in Community Relations
Valleys to Coast Housing
Excellence in Customer Service
Apollo Teaching Services
Excellence in Skills & People Development
MVRRS Group
Growth Business of the Year
Jon Davies - Lightology
Presidents Award
Transcend Packaging
Start Up Business of the Year
Refurbs Flintshire
Success in Environmental Management
Bionema Ltd
Success through Innovation
Cellpath Ltd
Success through Overseas Trade
Daniel Shepherd - CanDo Laundry
Young Entrepreneur of the Year
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Cellpath Ltd
Welsh Business of the year
Sponsored by University of South Wales
CellPath is a UK-based independent company, specialising in the manufacture and worldwide supply of consumables, equipment and services to the Cellular Pathology sector. With an in-house state of the art injection moulding capability, they differentiate themselves in the marketplace through being able to directly manufacture many of the plastic products that are used in modern Histology and Cytology laboratories. They are a family run business with roots in Mid Wales, where they are doing the investment and helping the local community. Employment has increased, their facilities have increased, and their in-house R&D laboratory are designing the next generation products which will only help them grow internationally.
Gallagher
Excellence in Community Relations
Sponsored by Effective Communication
Gallagher is the brand name of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (NYSE: AJG) — the global insurance broker, risk management services and consulting firm headquartered in Rolling Meadows, Illinois and founded in 1927. In Wales, Gallagher has four offices - Llantrisant (its largest and the Welsh centre of excellence), Newport, St Mellons and Talbot Green - employing approximately 150 people, out of more than 4,500 employees across the UK. In the UK, it has a regional network of customer-focused branches in more than 50 locations (employing over 2,200 of the total 4,500 in the UK) which looks after more than 800,000 customers and works with businesses of all sizes.
Valleys to Coast Housing
Excellence in Customer Service
Sponsored by Moorhouse Group
Valleys to Coast housing is a social landlord in Bridgend, managing and maintaining 6000 homes across the Borough. Their purpose is to provide homes where people feel happy and safe and their vision is to help build a better Wales. They are continually looking at ways to improve their services that will benefit their customers. Their main service is providing and managing homes, but they do more than just that: They help set up community groups to help combat loneliness. They offer 10 apprenticeship opportunities every year. They provide work experience opportunities. They turn unused spaces into loved areas that communities can use.
Apollo Teaching Services
Excellence in Skills & People Development
Sponsored by NPTC Group
Apollo Teaching Services have 11 offices spanning Wales and England and employ 50+ office-based staff and have registered more than 11,000 agency staff who work in anyone of the 300+ schools each week who request our education staff every day. All these agency staff are offered free training which enhances their continual professional development needs, enhancing a child's learning and development every school day. In 2013 following an internal audit by the Recruitment Employment Confederation their in-house compliance department was visited, policies and procedures vetted, and internal staff interviewed, they were awarded the prestigious Gold Accreditation, illustrating their stringent compliance checks and their commitment to safer recruitment.
MVRRS Group
Growth Business of the Year
Sponsored by Milford Marina
MVRRS Group has been operating for over 10 years as an Education and Training provider now supporting over 500 businesses and 1000 apprenticeship learners annually. Since 2017 MVRRS Group has grown from a 1 contract-based operation in South Wales to a 7-contract based provision with multiple arms to the business operating across the UK and also delivering training internationally in Dubai and Malta. They care about the subjects they are driving forward including Healthcare and Sustainability and are improving the standards of Healthcare and sustainable practices to ensure the next generation are cared for efficiently.
Jon Davies - Lightology
Presidents Award
Sponsored by South Wales Chamber of Commerce
Transcend Packaging
Start Up Business of the Year
Sponsored by Pro Steel Engineering
Transcend Packaging was established in 2017 to provide sustainable packaging solutions to customers across a broad range of market sectors with an emphasis in the food service, retail and health and beauty industries. Transcend was founded to provide industry leading alternatives to plastic packaging and we offer an unparalleled line of sustainable paper-based packaging products including folded cartons, food packaging and paper drinking straws. Their business model represents a new approach to how a packaging company can operate with a clear focus on environmental sustainability. Across the packaging spectrum, the message is clear, it’s time to reduce the impact of packaging on the environment.
Refurbs Flintshire
Success in Environmental Management
Sponsored by Bevan & Buckland
Refurbs is based at Aber Park Industrial Estate, Flint, and serves the people of North East Wales, particularly those living in the Deeside area. Refurbs' primary purpose is to provide affordable furniture and white goods to individuals and families. Refurbs combats this threat by taking donations of unwanted items and repairs or recycles both furniture and white goods for sale at low cost to families at risk of being in furniture poverty. This practice also creates environmental benefit by reducing the volume of waste going to landfill and reduces the incidence of fly-tipping.
Bionema Ltd
Success through Innovation
Sponsored by Western Power Distribution
Bionema is a cutting-edge AgTech Technology business developing novel and innovative biopesticide products, utilizing natural microorganisms, to protect crops from insect damage. The company was spun out from Swansea University in 2012 and is based in the Institute of Life Science in Swansea. This innovative technology is proven to provide higher yielding, toxic free fruits and vegetables, whilst at the same time making a significant contribution to both global food safety and security. Bionema has developed and developing next generation bioproducts which has real impact on human and the environment, whereas chemical pesticide is damaging the environment and human health.
Cellpath Ltd
Success through Overseas Trade
Sponsored by Atradius
CellPath is a UK-based independent company, specialising in the manufacture and worldwide supply of consumables, equipment and services to the Cellular Pathology sector. With an in-house state of the art injection moulding capability, they differentiate themselves in the marketplace through being able to directly manufacture many of the plastic products that are used in modern Histology and Cytology laboratories. They are a family run business with roots in Mid Wales, where they are doing the investment and helping the local community. Employment has increased, their facilities have increased, and their in-house R&D laboratory are designing the next generation products which will only help them grow internationally.
Daniel Shepherd - CanDo Laundry
Young Entrepreneur of the Year
Sponsored by Associated British Ports
CanDo Laundry Services was founded by Daniel Shepherd at the age of 19. A young, Welsh entrepreneur with a clear vision to achieve a great market share of the linen and laundry industry. CanDo Laundry Services started as CanDo Domestic Services in 2012, we offered a full range of domestic and commercial cleaning services, garden and property maintenance and we had domestic laundry machinery to cater for a local independent hotel’s laundry needs we are now a leading commercial and domestic laundry service specialist having been recognised as the 17th Best Industrial Laundry in the World at the Global Best Practise Awards 2018.
“We’re very pleased to have won this award. We were delighted to be shortlisted as a finalist, but to actually hear your name announced as the winner is overwhelming.”
“CellPath is very proud to have won 2018 Welsh Business of the Year, which is testament to all the hard work put in from all of our employees across the company. We proudly display the award in our reception area, with visitors often commenting very positively on our achievement.”
“Winning an award is testament to our dedication to supporting our local communities. We’re proud to see that our hard work has been recognised. As a company we have a duty to give back to our communities and we look forward to continue engaging with them.”
The USW is proud of its partnership with the Chamber. The Welsh Business Awards are a real opportunity for us to celebrate and applaud the achievements of the talented businesses in our region, and we are delighted to be supporting them again this year. Sponsoring the awards is important to the University, helping us to build relationships with organisations working hard to grow, and we look forward to sharing in their celebrations again this year.
We’re so pleased we won, did not expect it all, we were happy to just be there as finalists. It was a great night and congratulations to you all for a wonderful evening. Look forward to seeing the pictures.
“We’re honoured to be recognised at these well-respected awards. It represents our commitment to creating a more sustainable Wales, but it also shows our ambition to bring our environmentally sustainable packaging to companies around the world.”
“Promoting our win consolidates our reputation as a good local employer, growing quickly in a responsible manner. With our core UK customers coming from the public sector, this is a very important message to relay.”
“This award showcases the hard work our small team puts into marketing West Wales to the rest of the world. We’ve won awards in the past, but to have our efforts recognised at the Welsh Business Awards is overwhelming.”
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