Sponsored by Outrank
TURNOVER
LARGE BUSINESS( MORE THAN £ 10M TURNOVER)
FINALIST
Cavendish Northern
Billingham
Elite company – Elite Energy Eco’ s Chris McIntosh receives the Stockton firm’ s award from Rye Greenhalgh of category sponsor Outrank.
WINNER
Elite Energy Eco Stockton
Increased turnover from £ 4,800,000 to £ 12,200,000- 150 % A passion for helping people stay warm helped fuel Elite Energy Eco’ s remarkable rise in turnover.
What began as a plumbing business has transformed into a multi-millionpounds renewable energy specialist.
Elite works mainly in the government-funded sector to help low-income and vulnerable households get energy efficiency measures fitted to their homes.
The Stockton-based firm had five in-house members of staff 15 months ago – it now has 72.
Marketing manager Chris McIntosh told Tees Business:“ The passion of the team is the biggest thing. When you’ re working with people who are vulnerable or who have low incomes and are struggling to pay the bills, the ability to be able to help them reduce those bills is so important – our strapline‘ Save energy, stay warm, save money’ sums up what we do.
“ We want people to be able to live in their homes without having to put on multiple layers or having to choose between bills and food.”
Chris said the company ethos comes from founders and co-owners Robert and Kayleigh Shaw, who built Elite up from a Darlington plumbing business to become a nationally recognised eco energy firm.
And he points out the fact Elite is trusted to utilise those government grants confirms they do a good job.
“ We help customers access those grants and add the measures to their homes – so, things like solar panels, air source heat pumps, insulation measures. It’ s all about trying to help them save money on their energy bills as well as making their homes warmer.”
SPONSOR’ S MESSAGE:
Rye Greenhalgh, delivery manager, Outrank: Events like VelociTees remind us just how strong, supportive and ambitious this region really is. We’ re a Middlesbrough-born digital marketing agency now supporting more than 4,000 UK SMEs with their websites, search and digital growth, and we’ re incredibly proud to currently hold the title of Small Tees Business of the Year. We sponsored this event for the first time last year and what’ s been phenomenal is how many people in this room have since become friends, business associates or even clients. That says everything about the power of this community and why supporting the VelociTees was such an easy decision for us.
Increased turnover from £ 18,741,000 to £ 39,800,000- 112 % Based in a state-of-the-art, 37,200-sq ft head office and fabrication facility on Billingham’ s Cowpen Industrial Estate, Cavendish Northern is a pipework and mechanical installation contracting company whose excellent reputation is built on decades of trading.
Founded in 1983, it currently has nearly 300 employees and works predominantly for major blue chip companies in a range of industrial sectors, including nuclear, oil and gas, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, green fuels and power generation.
From rapid response situations to multidiscipline construction projects, clients can be confident that Cavendish Northern will manage and produce on-time, within budget and in a safe and conscientious manner.
FINALIST
Intelect UK
Middlesbrough
Increased turnover from £ 18,849,000 to £ 29,119,000- 54 % Middlesbrough-based Intelect has been delivering global engineering solutions since it was founded in 1997. Now one of the largest independent engineering contractors in the North-East, its team of skilled professionals provides engineering services for some of the leading operators in various sectors, including food processing, utilities, renewables and heavy industry.
With bases in Teesside, Humberside and Leicestershire, it continues to be a market leader in the industry, offering unrivalled levels of customer service.
It also places great importance on its awardwinning apprenticeship programme which, since 1998, has seen more than 150 local people secure a career path into engineering.
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