Small Business Award Innovation Award Manufacturing Award with Thanks to Heart of the Community Award Programme Sponsor High Growth & Ambition Award

TEESSIDE BUSINESS AWARDS

Thursday 3rd September 2020 #NEBIZAWARDS20 ORDER OF PROCEEDINGS

Welcome & Introduction Kirsten O’Brien Keynote Address Helen Dalby, Audience & Content Director, Reach plc North East Welcome Address Zoe Lewis, Principal & Chief Executive, Middlesbrough College

Order of Award Presentations Newcomer of the Year Services Award Digital Technology Award Apprenticeships, Training & Skills Award Tourism & Hospitality Award Small Business Award Innovation Award Manufacturing Award With Thanks To Heart of the Community Award Programme Sponsor High Growth & Ambition Award

Company of the Year With Thanks To Event Sponsors

2 Welcome to the Teesside sub-regional heat for the our newspapers and our website teessidelive.co.uk. North East Business Awards 2020, and our very first Recently we re-launched the Passionate People, WELCOME virtual event in a brave new world. Tonight’s event Passionate Places campaign to celebrate the is the last of our heats in different parts of the North East, but it’s the first since our lives and working individuals, communities and companies that make worlds changed unrecognisably in March of this year. this region such a special place to be. In a post- Covid economy, it has never been more important However, this is Teesside. We are resilient, determined, to celebrate everything that makes this part of the strong, creative and we won’t be beaten. So it’s a world so passionate, so enterprising and industrious. pleasure to welcome you all here virtually this evening, and we wish you good luck if you are in the running I would like to extend my thanks to our valued for one of our coveted trophies. Being shortlisted sponsors: Virgin Money, Northern Skills Group, is a testament to some of the brilliant work done Middlesbrough College, Baldwins, Endeavour by companies around the region - and it has never Partnership, FW Capital, Nifco, Teesside University, been more vital to champion all that you do. Hays Travel for Business and Everything Different. These awards are now in their 20th year and continue Good luck to everyone nominated and to be the biggest of their type in the country. They enjoy your evening. are a celebration of our area and the great businesses that underpin it. Supporting and championing business Helen Dalby, Audience & Content Director, in the North East is central to what we do, through Reach plc North East

It gives me great pleasure to join with Each year, it is pleasing to see so many of the you all today as we celebrate the amazing organisations we work with receiving awards for business achievements across Teesside. their business success; highlighting the close link Whilst this isn’t the event we had initially planned between investing in your workforce and expanding for – the fact that we are still coming together your business. As a region we’ve had our fair share of using technology is a great testament to the key setbacks over the year, but have always persevered, qualities of Teesside’s economy – our resilience, diversified and worked together to come out of the innovation, pioneering edge and community spirit. other side much stronger than before. As we begin to Like all of you here today – we as an organisation get back up and running, I wish you the best of success. have had to adapt and overcome new challenges Whilst our core purpose is to provide you with presented by the coronavirus pandemic. Over the the skills and talent that you need in order last few months, we’ve invested heavily in our digital to thrive, improve productivity and create landscape, developing new online courses and a competitive edge, we hope that to many supporting students to work remotely. As we prepare watching tonight we are much more than that. for a new term, we have made significant adaptions to our Middlesbrough College and TTE campuses, Our doors are always open… and are looking forward to welcoming students, Zoe Lewis, Principal and Chief Executive, apprentices and businesses back in September. Middlesbrough College

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Commenced trading in 2017 in Delivers a range of specialist Launched in 2018, Salesfire has response to a large train operator’s services, including design developed into a specialist suite of need for an effective innovation engineering, steel fabrication, conversion rate optimisation and team. installation, inspection and asset on-site personalisation tools. • Progressed from a one-man management. • Has rapidly evolved to offer entity to a business with a • From its premises in a complete suite of products complement of seven full-time Middlesbrough, the company has including an intuitive search employees and an external experienced strong growth in its system, behavioural overlays, consultant. first three years. product recommendations and • Client base has expanded • Occupies a modern workshop customer service tools. considerably and now includes and office facilities based in the • The company has recently two FTSE 250 organisations. heart of Teesside serving sectors announced its new partnership • Product offering includes including waste-to-energy, with E-commerce giant Klarna. accelerator programmes, chemical and process and mining. • This year focus is on continuing innovation audits, digital strategy • Employing around 30 people, to grow, announcing more consultancy, design thinking including apprentices, INDUSTRO household name clients and workshops and design sprints. undertakes a range of bespoke continuing with internal and turnkey projects. expansion. 7 Your partner in skills

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Everflow Group Mabo Clive Owen LLP @EverflowWater @Mabo_Media @CliveOwenLLP

The Everflow Group’s purpose is to Mabo is a specialist PPC Independent firm of chartered ‘make utilities simple’. Management agency based in accountants and business advisers • Made up of the UK’s fastest Middlesbrough. Mabo create with offices across the region, organically growing water a competitive edge and have working to add value to it’s retailer, Everflow Water,and heavily invested in research and corporate, public sector and private the company that creates the development, growing its market clients. pioneering software solutions share and improving the overall • Developed a position over behind Everflow Water’s success, customer experience. the past 37 years as one of Everflow Tech. • Offers a high-end, commitment- the largest and most trusted • Founded by current CEO, Josh free, results-driven service to over professional firms in the North Gill, in 2015, Everflow Group has 350 online advertisers based up East. big ambitions and a focus on and down the country. • Achieved through relentless focus people and customer experience. • Service has hit high levels over on the needs and aspirations of • Josh believes a great corporate recent years which has seen their clients. culture and technology Mabo be able to boast a 97.5% • Added additional service lines innovation is the key to success client retention rate. including the grants team which in services industries such as • This figure looks even more has helped secure over £150m utilities. impressive when no client of of grant funding creating over Mabo will ever be asked to sign 10,000 jobs and leading to over any form of a contract. £1bn of investment. 9 Working With You To Grow Your Business

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Cubic Transportation Systems Ltd Ghost Innovations Ltd Intasite @CubicTS @Ghostapp4 @intasite

Delivers integrated transportation and Imagine a world where people Specialists in health and safety traffic management systems, providing receive phone calls and text inductions and contractor tools for people to choose the smartest messages from loved ones who are management solutions for secure way to travel, while enabling transport no longer here - Ghost Innovations and hazardous sites. authorities to manage network demand Ltd have made this possible by • Produce bespoke site entry in real time. creating a groundbreaking phone platforms that can be delivered • Brains behind London’s Oyster Card App. remotely through a cloud based and many other global systems, • Developed to bring positivity and system. including the systems managing the creativity at the end of life and to • The secure online platform allows UK roads network. maintain personhood by creating site visitors to gain quick and • Currently over 60% of transport a legacy. easy access to controlled areas payment transactions in the UK, • People can create, record and by watching an online induction Australia and the US are processed store phone calls, text messages, video before they arrive. through Cubic’s systems. pictures and videos like a digital • Visitors can be inducted from • Cubic’s regional office in Stockton- memory box. anywhere in the world on on-Tees is integral to these systems, • Messages can be sent on special most devices, eliminating the from helping UK travellers move occasions such as birthdays and difficult problem of planning and safely and smoothly, to allowing weddings for up to 50 years in coordinating lengthy induction passengers to pay for journeys in the future. sessions. cities like New York. 11

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Mobile Mini UK TaperedPlus Ltd Tekgem (UK) Ltd @MobileMiniUK @TaperedPlus @tekgem

A leading hirer of secure storage and Provides quality flat roof design and Bridges the gap between information portable accommodation solutions. tapered insulation supply. technology and operational • Recognises talent by working • Innovation and groundbreaking technology. with managers on succession customer service is the basis the • Specialist technology company planning and creating personal company was founded on, and offering cybersecurity, development plans to support it places emphasis on providing infrastructure, network those team members highlighted professional and personal consultancy and engineering for and interested in future development opportunities for services. opportunities. all employees to bring innovative • Decided to invest in • Since the new managing director suggestions to the company to apprenticeships to ensure it has was appointed in September further improve its services. the necessary skills to provide the 2019, 39% of vacancies have been • Supports this by funding training services it offers. filled with internal promotions. at all levels from apprenticeships • All former apprentices are • It also offers a formal NVQ to graduate and postgraduate now full-time employees after Apprenticeship programme opportunities. successfully completing their for new and existing staff, • Also provides one-to-one apprenticeships. which includes programmes in mentors to help staff find a focus leadership and management, and for the direction of their career as business administration. well as supporting them in their 13 personal goals. COMPLETE BUSINESS TRAVEL SOLUTIONS FROM THE UK’S LARGEST INDEPENDENT TRAVEL AGENT

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Middlesbrough Football Club Newham Grange Farm Preston Park Museum & Grounds @Boro @NewhamGrange @pparkmuseum

The Riverside Stadium, home to Working farm based in Offers a wonderful family day out Middlesbrough Football Club, is a Middlesbrough which provides a fun- with something for everyone. conference and events venue. filled family day out. • Once home of renowned • Offers high quality conference • Experiences include feeding the Victorian shipping entrepreneur, facilities as well as training and animals, getting close to nature, Robert Ropner, Preston Hall is meeting rooms with the latest play equipment, family-focused now a museum. audio visual systems. events and private parties. • Replica Victorian Street where • Riverside Stadium Tours are • Steeped in history with the you can meet characters from available and it’s MFC Foundation earliest record citing the farm in the past; discover what crime and supports the club to deliver a the Domesday Book of 1086. punishment was like in the police popular range of health and well- • Significant investment offering station; play with traditional toys; being initiatives. visitors a much improved and enjoy a taste of nostalgia in • Last year the stadium welcomed welcome centre and extended the sweet shop. 32,000 Take That fans for its café, a renovated petting barn, a • Various woodland walks and first ever pop concert attracting Changing Places toilet and more wildlife with scenic river views visitors from outside the region. play equipment. and beautiful flowers and tropical plants in the gardens, along with an exciting annual events programme. 15 Diff erent isn’t new It’s been around as long as same old, same old. But we don’t talk about Diff erent old do we? Because Diff erent always seems new. So why don’t more people do it? We think it’s strange that you see so much of same, so little of diff erent. Diff erent might be weird, or odd, or just plain unexpected. But it gets the job done. Diff erent takes you to new places. Introduces you to new ideas. And if nothing else, Diff erent makes people take notice. Well, they would, wouldn’t they?

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Ithica Films SockMonkey Studios TBS @ithicafilms @SockMonkeyLtd @TBSGlobalLtd

One of the first dedicated film Games development studio based in Successfully researched and companies in the Tees Valley. Middlesbrough’s Boho 5. developed almost 200 new products • Formed in 2014, it creates high • The studio has worked on more for the automotive industry in the quality, cinematic films for than 25 games on PC, console last six years. business and has doubled in size and mobile platforms for clients • Business has grown from £1.82 twice in that time. such as Sega, Team17, Disney and million in 2014 to £3.6 million in • Has produced over 1000 films - Outfit 7. 2019, after successfully gaining working with clients demanding • Team has grown to 18 and is on access to 7 new markets. creativity nationally and track to be 25 strong by mid- • Target for 2020 is to develop 52 internationally. 2020, and almost 50 by the end new products at a rate of one per • Currently undergoing a growth of 2021. week from new product induction plan to treble the size of the • 2019 saw the studio release titles through to market. business in the next few years on Xbox One, Playstation 4 and • Achievements include opening leading to a larger team and more Nintendo Switch, with more in the representative offices in five opportunities for filmmakers in a pipeline to be released in 2020, countries and gaining access to growing market. including SockMonkey’s first own seven new markets. IP console release.

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Everflow Group Exis Technologies Ghost Innovations Ltd @EverflowWater @hazcheck @Ghostapp4

The Everflow Group’s purpose is to Supplies IT solutions for the Created a ground-breaking phone ‘make utilities simple’. management of dangerous goods in App which provides a scheduled • It’s made up of the UK’s fastest sea transport. messaging service for people at end organically growing water • Hazcheck Detect is a new cargo of life. retailer, Everflow Water, and screening solution hosted and • Can create, record and store the company that creates the maintained by Exis that can phone calls, text messages, innovative software solutions search all booking and shipping pictures and videos which can be behind Everflow Water’s success, instructions to identify mis-declared sent to loved ones for up to 50 Everflow Tech. and undeclared dangerous goods. years in the future. • The group’s culture – the • Container vessel operators can • Idea came from a personal ‘Everflow Way’ – encourages share information with partner life experience and has been innovation, customer focus and lines to avoid shippers moving developed to bring positivity and having fun at work. their undeclared consignments to creativity at the end of life by • The Everflow Group launched its partner carriers. creating a legacy. pioneering retail management • Around 10% of the 60m containers • Plans to incorporate Virtual and billing platform, Eclipse, to moved each year contain declared Reality into the App allowing the wider water retail market dangerous goods and bad people from past and present in October 2019 and it is now declarations can lead to situations to have immersive experiences being used by almost 20% of the such as ship fires. together. market. 19 endeavour_law

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Hart Biologicals Intelect Tomlinson Hall @HartBio @intelect_UK @TomlinsonHall

Specialises in research, development, Teesside-based mechanical and Tomlinson Hall, founded in 1919, is manufacture and marketing of blood electrical engineering contractor one of the few remaining British coagulation and blood platelet testing with over 250 employees and over pump manufacturers. devices for use in medical conditions 20 years of engineering expertise • Stands out for its innovative liquid related to haemostasis and platelet across a range of industries and ring vacuum design, Liquivac® function. sectors. pump which is seen as a leader • Products are used in hospital • Provides first class engineering for its reliability and durability, as pathology labs, surgical theatres, solutions, from bespoke one-off well as its ability to accommodate testing clinics and pharmacies in designs, to complex installation solids of up to 2mm in diameter. 45 countries. processes and designs and • Versatile and easy to install, • Supplies its own branded manufactures a wide variation of Liquivac® pumps can play an products in the UK and around products. integral part in key operations the world through a network of • Specialised team of engineers on across a wide range of industry distribution partners. hand to provide clients with the sectors. • Develops and manufactures best service the industry has to • Its ability to pump from long biological test reagents on offer. suction lines allows it to behalf of international medical • Significant investment in staff and provide an effective solution in equipment manufacturers. infrastructure has resulted in year hazardous or difficult to access on year growth, fuelled by its environments, making it unique to apprenticeship programme. the market. 21 #bringmesolutions

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Middlesbrough College North Star Teesside Park @mbrocollege @NorthStarHG @Teessidechat

Fully inclusive college that serves a Provides affordable housing, invests One of the region’s leading shopping vibrant, multicultural local community. in communities and develops new and leisure destinations, which takes • Welcomes people from all homes across the Tees Valley, North pride at being at the heart of the backgrounds and ages studying Yorkshire and County Durham. community. and working together in a vibrant, • Develops vast, varied and • Has close relationships with a positive environment. valuable community and tenant number of charities throughout • Departments regularly support connection. the region, including some external projects - from catering • Supports a wide range of national. students providing lunches in initiatives, ranging from school • Works alongside schools and care homes to construction breakfast clubs, reading groups day care centres, helping students supporting with and homework clubs, to creating young adults to find work and refurbishing community areas. community gardens and green helping people with life limiting • The Students’ Union puts on space. conditions etc. charitable events across the • North Star’s vision, values and • Staff care about their community, year, organising haircuts for the organisational strategy are and strive to consistently deliver homeless, food bank donations all centred on creating and exemplary standards. and sporting events. sustaining great places for people to live and work in. 23 Help when you need it A CBILS lon of £100,000 to £750,000 could help your business bck on its feet. fwcpitl.co.uk info@fwcpitl.co.uk

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Correll Services Ltd Everflow Group Salesfire @Correllservices @EverflowWater @Salesfireuk

Engineering company predominantly Everflow Group is made up of the Innovative and forward-thinking involved in the renewable energy UK’s fastest organically growing water software as a service, offering industry, specialising in the retailer, Everflow Water, and the intelligently personalised conversion termination and testing of subsea company that creates the pioneering rate optimisation products including cables on offshore windfarms. software solutions behind Everflow behavioural overlays, instant search • Presently working on projects in Water’s success, Everflow Tech. and product recommendations. the UK and German sectors of • The Group has experienced a 55% • Staff count has grown by 328%, the North Sea, the Baltic Sea, the increase in profits and grown its going from 7-30 over the last Taiwan Strait and in the Atlantic employee count by 61%. year in support of their ever- Ocean off the east coast of • It has also opened two new expanding client base. Virginia, USA. offices, one in Nuneaton near • Now provide personalised • Majority of its specialist Birmingham and one in Boho Five, shopping experiences to over technicians performing the works Middlesbrough, and has more than four million customers a day, are from the North East. doubled its office space at Wynyard offering tools that can cater to a • Has increased its revenue by an Business Park. variety of E-commerce retailers, average of 374% each year - a • Everflow attribute their growth to through a simple one line of code direct result of the exceptional its focus on people, which has been integration. services delivered by every one of the company’s priorities • In the upcoming year, Salesfire member of the CS operation. since its conception in 2015. is set to focus on growing their brand overseas. 25 2020 BUSINESS VISION Let our expert team explain the stories and opportunities behind the local business headlines

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Hodgson Fish J&B Recycling Ltd Mandale Homes @hodgsonfish @JBRecycling www.mandalehomes.com

Suppliers to 14 Michelin star J&B Recycling is one of the UK’s Established for over 35 years, Mandale restaurants, it takes its business very leading business waste collection and Homes pride themselves in building high- seriously. recycling services operating across specification, award winning homes. • Run by fifth generation family multiple sectors in the UK. • Austerity measures saw the company members Peter and Jill Hodgson, • Operates from 20 acres of highly reinvest its profits rather than borrow the company sells the best fish developed facilities across four sites from the bank making growth initially and seafood to establishments in the North East. slow but cementing the foundations throughout the North of England. • The business processes 200,000+ for sustainable future growth. • Hodgson Fish has gone through tonnes of material, mainly long term • Strong teamwork ethos permeating its greatest evolution in the past contracted Local Authority and all levels of the business, reflected five years, becoming a modern, commercial mixed recycling waste by impressive customer satisfaction sustainable, busy company, streams, backed by a fleet of 17 results well above industry average. underpinned by 105 years in the vehicles. • Several industry awards, an industry. • The company is now one of the uncompromising attention to detail, • Levels of integrity toward clients most efficient in the U.K. waste high level of finishes and exceptional and staff which is hard to find sector, delivering profits over specification has gained Mandale anywhere and has won several double the industry average. Homes recognition throughout the prestigious industry accolades. industry and makes them the house builder that they are today. 27 THANK YOU TO ALL OUR SPONSORS

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