Green Awards – Press Release
Take One Productions Corporate Social Responsibility initiative Sussex Green Living was nominated for the Going Green Award at the Business Matters Awards which took place on 20th July 2012 at the Copthorne Effingham Hotel. The Take One team enjoyed a lively evening hosted by TV personality Fred Dinenage and attended by other nominees from Horsham, Crawley, Haywards Heath and Lewes.
The team members were over the moon when they were announced winners of the Going Green award. Here Pedro the Sussex Green Living mascot receives the Going Green Award for all his work helping to Green up Sussex!
Winners from the regional Sussex and Hampshire business awards went through to the 3rd Southern Business Awards, which took place on Friday 28th September at the Hilton Metropole Hotel in Brighton.
Take One’s Sussex Green Living were among the region’s top businesses at this glamorous awards ceremony, organised by JP South Events with the support of the overall sponsor JSPC Computer Services.
Carrie Cort, Take One’s marketing director said “We were delighted to have been awarded Highly Commended for Sussex Green Living. This Award and the resulting PR will help to raise the general public’s awareness of the need to live greener and more sustainably”.
This is a list of the award winners and runners up.
Winners
Going Green
Highly Commended – Take One Productions/Sussex Green Living
Winner – Stonepillow Restore
Start-Up Category
Highly Commended – Greenfish Recruitment Ltd
Winner – NonStop Engineering
Customer Service
Highly Commended – Little Wood Group Holdings
Winner – Elm Grove Newsagents
Innovation
Winner – Paint With Light
Small business (up to 10 employees)
Joint Winners – Caroline’s Dairy and Jane Jeater Osteopathy
Education and Training
Winner – Q Hair & Beauty Ltd
Hospitality, tourism and leisure
Highly Commended – Eastney Tavern
Winner – Chatsworth Hotel
Medium-sized businesses (10-50 employees)
Winner – Express Food Service
Outstanding contribution to the community award
Winner – Affinion International
Employer of the Year award
Winner – First Central Insurance Management Ltd
Best Employee or Best Team category
Winner – Norma Wood of St Michael Care Homes Ltd
Place to Eat
Highly Commended – The Richmond Arms
Winner – Jamie’s Italian
Young Business Person
Highly Commended – Daniel Edwards of Design 51
Winner Tory Smith of Tory’s Cafe in the Park
Manufacturing and construction
Winner ERG Air Pollution
Large business (50 + employees)
Winner Spofforths Chartered Accountants
Retailer of the Year
Highly Commended Andrew McDowall
Winner The Wool Bar
Business personality
Winner James Stoner from JSPC Computer Services
Lifetime Achievement
Winner David Luckett MBE
Overall Business of the Year
Winner ETI (Electronic Temperature Instruments)
“Greening Sussex by Sussex families”
