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PWS managing director John Lennon, inside his firm’ s impressive design centre on Aycliffe Business Park, is encouraging companies to enter this year’ s Make Your Mark awards competition.
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PWS boss John Lennon has laid down the gauntlet to Aycliffe businesses and is urging them to enter this year’ s Make Your Mark awards competition. He spoke to Aycliffe Today editor Martin Walker...
PWS were crowned Aycliffe Business Park’ s Company of the Year at last year’ s Make Your Mark awards ceremony.
The accolade was swiftly followed up with another major gong when, just a fortnight later, when the fourth-generation family firm won the Manufacturing Award at the North East Business Awards( Durham, South Tyneside and Sunderland heat) at Sunderland AFC’ s Stadium of Light.
Both awards were richly deserved after PWS has established itself as one of Aycliffe Business Park’ s leading lights.
The company, which employs 350 people, has been around for more than 30 years, but is now one of the UK’ s leading kitchen distributors and bespoke worksurface manufacturers.
Managing director John Lennon has paid tribute to winning the local award at the 2017 Make Your Mark event.
Now – with the spotlight set to shine on the Xcel Centre for a fourth consecutive year – he’ s urging all businesses to enter this year’ s competition.
“ PWS has a long and established history in Newton Aycliffe,” said Lennon.“ We’ ve been here for 30 years, so to win an award direct from the community is a great achievement. Much of our workforce comes from within a close radius of Aycliffe, so it provides a good boost.
“ As a business, being presented with an award was a great way to demonstrate what we do and what we have achieved across a number of areas from product and sales performance to our place in the regional business community.
“ The process of entering an award – putting pen-to-paper and specifically highlighting key achievements within investment, performance, people and innovation – is a great way to illustrate a company’ s successes and, regardless of the result, shines a light on the business in the community.