ENER-G Powers To Success As National Business Awards Winner

Sustainable energy group ENER-G has been named 3i Private Business of the Year in the prestigious National Business Awards.

 

Greater Manchester-based ENER-G beat off competition from ten other finalists, including Iceland Foods and Camelot UK Lotteries, to win the private business category – one of five special awards that can be entered by third-party nomination only.

 

ENER-G won the award on Tuesday 9 November after impressing the judges with exceptional financial performance, strong leadership, impressive domestic and international growth, relentless commitment to innovation, customer focus, staff engagement, and market prominence in its sector.

 

Managing Director Derek Duffill, Chairman Tim Scott, and their management team received the award in front of 1,200 top business leaders at a glittering ceremony, hosted by BBC 10 O’clock News presenter, Huw Edwards, at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.

 

The privately owned business, founded in 1997 by Tim Scott, designs, manufactures, finances and delivers renewable and energy efficient technologies, employing more than 760 people internationally. The company’s export sales account for 47 per cent of its business.

 

Over the last financial year, ENER-G has seen group turnover reach £130m – up from £97m in the previous year.

 

ENER-G has operating companies and joint venture partners In 17 countries, including the UK, Hungary, the Netherlands, Romania, Lithuania, Italy, Norway, Poland, South Africa, Mexico and Spain, with partners in Canada and across Western and Eastern Europe.

 

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg delivered the keynote speech, and in a video message, Prime Minister David Cameron, told all finalists: "These awards show off the best of British. You are the doers and the grafters who will get this country back on its feet - the people who will get our economy growing again. And it's absolutely right that we should take this moment to recognise what you do."

 

Commenting on ENER-G's accomplishment, Derek Duffill said: “Winning the 3i Private Business of the Year award – and being included in an elite group singled out for praise by the prime minister – is the stuff of dreams. Yet our achievements in the real world are very much a product of hard graft, unrelenting innovation and a keen eye for opportunity.”

 

Tim Scott added: “ENER-G has generated powerful growth recently, but we have never lost sight of our entrepreneurial roots. As a result, we are a very agile business, able to take decisive action to win and retain business. Our development is further fuelled by a dedicated mergers and acquisitions team which is always seeking opportunities to acquire new businesses. We are constantly innovating across the broad range of our activities and continue to engage the communities in which we work to help share the benefits of investment and access to low carbon energy.”

 

Judge Gordon Hague, Director of 3i, said: “Leading in an exciting global growth market, and demonstrating a commitment to developing talent in the UK, ENER-G is a champion of British engineering and innovation that even funds new projects.” Fellow judge Matthew Streets, CFO of Foster + Partners, added: “This is an extremely impressive UK engineering company, spun out of a UK university, with robust financials and a fantastic international footprint.”

 

The total number of organisations entering the National Business Awards in 2010 increased by over 40 percent compared to last year, despite the challenging market conditions.

 

Over 150 of the UK’s most innovative and resilient public and private sector businesses completed a two-stage Dragon’s Den style judging process, which involved more than 100 multidisciplinary business leaders choosing this year’s winners.