Elonex is excited to sponsor the Retail Business of the Year Award at the Business Excellence Awards Essex.

The award fits perfectly with our philosophy of building brands in competitive markets, and helping clients to drive rapid business growth through the delivery of well targeted marketing campaigns across the Elonex UK network of Digital Out of Home advertising screens.

We very much look forward to discovering how businesses of all sizes in Essex are being innovative in their sales and marketing efforts in order to really stand out from the crowd, and wish all entrants the best of luck in the awards.

Adam Stockton, Managing Director

This year, Emirates will proudly be in attendance at the annual Business Excellence Awards Essex. The awards are timely given Emirates recently announced the launch of a second daily flight from Dubai to London Stansted starting 1st July, 2019. The additional flight means that Emirates customers will now have 11 daily flight options to and from three London airports. As with the first, the second daily flight to Stansted will also be operated by Emirates’ ‘game changing’ Boeing 777-300ER, offering customers an enriched travel experience across all cabins with newly designed seats and upgraded inflight entertainment systems. We look forward to welcoming many of the attendees on our new service in the future.

Graham Pepe, Corporate Sales Manager UK

Five Lakes Resort is proud to sponsor the 2019 Essex Business Excellence Awards.

As an Essex based family run business, it is great to be able to support the successes of our many local clients, at this fabulous event.

We look forward to the awards evening and to enjoying the opportunity to greet many old and new faces.

Jill Moore – Regional Sales Manager at Five Lakes Resort

“For the second year running, Futures for You will be in attendance at the annual Essex Business Excellence Awards 2019 and we are proud and excited to be sponsoring this prestigious event. When Futures for You were approached about this year’s event, we could not turn down the opportunity to celebrate the achievements of local businesses in Essex, once again.

The Business Excellence Awards is a fantastic way to engage with the Essex business community and for Futures for You to connect local people with employment opportunities through our service offer”.

Tom Hay - Head of Operations (East of England)

Greater Anglia is proud to be sponsoring the Sustainability award in the Business Excellence Awards Essex. We're passionate about delivering excellent train services, supporting sustainable growth and ensuring that the railways play their full part in helping our region to be both economically prosperous and a wonderful place to live. This year sees the start of the introduction of a complete fleet of brand-new trains, in a £1.4 billion investment programme, transforming the travelling environment on all of our routes, increasing seating capacity, improving reliability and reducing journey times – thereby providing an even more environmentally-friendly transport option for many journeys. Every single carriage will be replaced with new state-of-the-art trains in the largest ever investment in trains in East Anglia.

Jonathan Denby, Head of Corporate Affairs

Invest ESSEX is once again delighted to be involved with the Business Excellence Awards Essex, as headline sponsor.

As a promoter of inward investment and business support provider within the county, we have seen at first hand the strength of businesses within Essex.

With a team of industry specialists, Invest ESSEX guides and supports businesses through every stage of business relocation, expansion or scale-up – many of whom have gone on to enjoy success at the Business Excellence Awards Essex.

Our involvement with the awards last year has fuelled our enthusiasm for the event and we look forward to playing an even greater role in 2019 to celebrate the very best of Essex business.

David Rooke, Location Services Director, Invest ESSEX

James Hallam Limited is delighted to be sponsoring the New Business of the Year category at the Business Excellence Awards Essex in September. We have been privileged enough to be involved with the awards for 6 years now and we are very much looking forward to judging and meeting some of the new and exciting businesses across Essex.

James Hallam Limited is a leading independent Insurance broker based in Chelmsford. We make it our priority to understand every detail of our clients businesses which gives us a great platform to judge these awards. Graham Whyatt Head of Affinity and SME and Jackie Knight Group Marketing manager will be heading up this year’s judging team.

Graham Whyatt, Head of Affinity and SME, James Hallam

Jelf Insurance Brokers is proudly sponsoring the SME category at the annual Business Excellence Awards Essex this year.

We are delighted to be part of such a prestigious event. Essex is the home of so many thriving and successful businesses. As we are a leading community focussed insurance broker, we jumped at the opportunity to support this event which celebrates our local businesses. These awards are a great way for businesses to unite and form new connections. Our deep understanding of our clients puts us in a great position to judge these awards.

Brett Wexler, Branch Director

Kalamazoo IT are honoured to be part of the Business Excellence Awards Essex 2019. Kalamazoo is synonymous with successful businesses right across the country, as a nationwide provider of Managed IT Support & Cloud services. While Kalamazoo’s heritage dates back to 1886 with a long established client base in the south, we are excited to meet new and thriving businesses break through and succeed within the county. Kalamazoo IT are delighted to be participating this year as a sponsor, celebrating business success across the region. We wish all nominees the best of luck and are thoroughly looking forward to the awards evening.

Sally Dixon, Sales Manager

Kingswood Group are delighted to be sponsoring the Professional Services category at this year’s Business Excellence Awards Essex. The county is home to many successful, professional businesses and this is a fantastic opportunity for us to celebrate that by showcasing some of the very best. We look forward to meeting those entering the category and being part of such a wonderful event that honours the best in Essex’s business community.

Sarah McKee-Harris, Founder & Director of Kingswood Group

We at Little Easton Manor Wedding and Events are proud to be attending this year’s annual Business Excellence Awards Essex, as the winners of three categories in 2018. We are delighted to be participating this year as a sponsor of the Supplier of the Year Award. Little Easton Manor is one of so many thriving and successful businesses in Essex and to be approached to celebrate and give recognition to local businesses is truly an honour.

The awards are always a great way for businesses to unite and network to form new connections, so we definitely are looking forward to attending.

Andy Mahoney

London Stansted Airport is delighted to be a headline sponsor for the Essex Business Excellence Awards this year. We are proud to be a part of this vibrant and booming region and to act as a champion of international connectivity for the county to support future growth. We wholeheartedly support the innovation, ambition, and growth of local businesses in the region, no matter the size. Corporate engagement is a key part of our aviation development work and we look forward to forming new relationships whilst celebrating the success of the thriving business community here in Essex.

Aboudy Nasser, Chief Commercial Officer

“The Lord’s Taverners are delighted to be the charity partner of the annual Essex Business Awards for the third successive year.

These awards are great for bringing thriving businesses within Essex together and as a charity that is doing a lot of work for disadvantaged and disabled young people in the county it’s fantastic to be involved.”

Paul Robin - CEO

Oaks Hospital, part of Ramsay Health Care, is proud to sponsor the ‘Enterprising Women’ category at the 2019 Business Excellence Awards Essex. As the majority of our team members are female, we are excited to celebrate the endeavours of women in the Essex business community. Women-owned businesses contribute upwards of £105bn to the UK economy; it is now fact that women are job-creators and growth-drivers in business. These awards are a brilliant way to celebrate the achievements of some of these incredible women.

Amy Simpson, Hospital Director, Oaks Hospital

Prettys Solicitors are once again delighted to sponsor the Client Service Award as part of the Business Excellence Awards Essex. At Prettys client service runs through our business from start to finish and even after engagement, so we are delighted to meet Essex Businesses who want to enter this prestigious category.

Essex has a great array of excellent businesses where client or customer service has a different focus in each type of business. It is very rewarding to see how each business delivers on such an important area.

We are expecting another very competitive field to challenge our decision making.

Ian Carr, CEO

RSM are delighted to be sponsoring the Family Business of the Year category for the second year running in the Business Excellence Awards Essex 2019.

RSM strives to be the first choice provider of audit, tax and consulting services to middle-market business leaders locally, nationally and globally. We are well established in the local Essex business community, with family owner-managed businesses at the very core of who we work with.

We look forward to meeting with the applicants throughout the process and celebrating their successes. We wish you all the very best of luck with the awards this year.

Paul Dearsley, Chelmsford Office Managing Partner

We are delighted to be sponsoring the Innovation and Technology category at the Business Excellence Awards Essex. As a company that thrives on innovation we are acutely aware of the opportunities for growth that technology can bring to forward-thinking businesses keen to take their relationships with clients, staff and new prospects to the next level. We are very much looking forward to celebrating the achievements of all the finalists at this year’s awards, as well as networking with some of the most high-performing businesses in the county."

Helen Armstrong, CEO and Speaker at Silver Cloud HR

The cornerstone of every successful business is a strong leadership team, where innovation, transparency, empowerment and expertise are ever-present. As a global company that has kept its roots in supporting local economies, an important component of Thomas International’s work is with leadership teams, providing them with the right tools and solutions to make confident and objective people-relation decisions.

We are delighted to be sponsoring ‘Leadership Team of the Year’ at the 2019 Business Excellence Award Essex and look forward to recognising the leaders of Essex and celebrating their unique achievements.

Derek Redmond, Group Performance Director.