A sense of pure delight and celebration filled the room at the Lloyds Bank British Business Excellence Awards as the winners of each of the prestigious 17 categories were announced, from the ORESA Leader of the Year Award to the Lloyds Bank Sustainable Business of the Year Award.
The calibre of finalists in each category was very high, with Britain’s business elite filling every seat in the room. The evening was intertwined with entertainment and speeches from Sarah Austin, Director of the Lloyds Bank British Business Excellence Awards, and Paul Gordon, Lloyds Banking Group Managing Director for SME & MID Corporates, giving inspirational talks to all finalists and winners. Sir Trevor McDonald OBE was a fantastic compere for the evening, bringing insight and unparalleled wisdom to the proceedings.
The awards this year have had an unparalleled calibre of finalists, with the seven London-based winners truly outshining their competition in each of their categories.
The winner of The Employer of the Year Award, Octopus Energy, is on a mission to make a big green dent on the universe – offering the best prices, products and service to happy customers worldwide, supported by a brilliant team of employees. In just six years, they have become a top 5 UK energy supplier with 3.2million customers, the ONLY Energy supplier recommended by Which? for five years running, and fast-track growth to $5bn valuation.
Fever-Tree, winner of The Department for International Trade Exporter of the Year Award, is the world’s leading premium mixer brand. Fever-Tree is committed to creating the world’s best mixers, ranging from their award-winning, signature tonic waters, to Ginger Beers and their new Premium Sodas. Founded in the UK in 2003, the Brand listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2014 and had revenues of £311m in 2021.
Winner of The LDC Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Lizzie Carter of Only Curls is on a mission to encourage curly haired people of all textures to ditch the chemicals, forget the straighteners and start loving their natural curls. The range of hair products and accessories are sold via their website onlycurls.com and are used in curl specialist salons nationwide.
Dr Ali Parsa, CEO of Babylon Health, who last night won the prestigious ORESA Leader of the Year Award, is a British-Iranian healthcare entrepreneur and engineer. He’s the founder and CEO of Babylon, the revolutionary artificial intelligence and digital health company. Babylon’s mission is to put accessible and affordable health service in the hands of every person on Earth. By combining cutting-edge AI technology and the best available medical expertise, Babylon gives people 24/7 access to affordable, holistic health services. The company is home to a large, passionate team of scientists, clinicians, mathematicians and engineers—all recruited from over 60 different countries.
CharterSync is a ground-breaking British aviation services and technology company that has revolutionised the UK air cargo charter market by harnessing digital innovation. The business is centred around CharterSync’s proprietary B2B air cargo charter digital platform, which has transformed and simplified the way that freight forwarders and charter operators work together – making them worthy winners of The Technology Innovation Award.
UMATR is a technology talent partner, primarily focusing within Scala, React, and Cloud Computing. We partner with some of the coolest and most exciting brands in the market, from leading start-ups to international giants, to build world-class scale-up teams. To date, we supported our partners and candidates across 24 different countries. This is why Mitchell Franklin, the entrepreneur behind UMATR was the standout winner of The New Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
Winner of The Diversity Champion of the Year Award, Foundervine, has a vision of a world where ambitious leaders, creators and innovators have the tools to build the organisations of tomorrow. Through all of this, they act as vocal advocates, working to change policy, evolve workplaces and educate businesses on the ways diversity strengthens their offering. They exist to help shape a better future. One that includes all people, regardless of who they are or who they know.
Sarah Austin, Director of www.britishbusinessexcellenceawards.co.uk, commented:
“A true embodiment of the best of British Business, these businesses represent the innovation, creativity and resilience that makes them both worthy winners of the Lloyds Bank British Business Excellence Awards. Their positive contribution to the reputation and success of British business has not gone unnoticed and it will be great to see how winning an award of this stature will propel the company into the spotlight, where they can use this as a platform to go on and achieve great things in 2023 and beyond.”
