Businesses across South Durham came together on Friday 30th Nov 2012 at Spennymoor Town Hall to celebrate and promote the importance of wealth creation in these difficult economic times. South Durham Business Network and Engineering & Manufacturing Forum brought together its members to recognise excellence through a range of awards. Pamela Petty – Managing Director of Ebac based in Newton Aycliffe won the prestigious award of Outstanding Contribution to South Durham for their innovation and ambassadorial role in promoting the importance of Engineering, Manufacturing and export as a key UK strength. Ebac continue to defy global trends and are now planning to design, engineer and manufacture washing machines once again in County Durham. Well done to Pamela and her team at Ebac.
Other winners and award categories include Stuart Hall & Co. in South Church for Best Service Business, Warm Sanctuary in Durham for Best Retail Business, Climb NorthEast in Ferryhill for Best Start-up Business, the Bignall Group in Shildon for Best Engineering & Manufacturing Business, A-Tech Fabrication in Newton Aycliffe for Best Community and Social Enterprise, Jenny Williams of Izumi-Products in South Church for Best Employee, Stuart Hall of Stuart Hall & Co. for Best Employer and Scott Piggott of the Bignall Group for Best Engineering Apprentice of the Year.
Thank you to the award and event sponsors which include Barclays Bank, Business Durham, Newton Press, South Durham Business Network and Engineering & Manufacturing Forum.
Plans are already underway for the 2013 awards which will be by nomination only to encourage even more applications and also more categories, so if you know of any worthy businesses then why not nominate them.
To find out more about SDBN and how to get involved contact the Chairman, Darren Race at info@sdbn.org.uk or visit www.sdbn.org.uk
Stewart Watkins of Business Durham and Pamela Petty, Managing Director of Ebac
