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BUSINESS AWARDS
Paul Gosney of City Taxis with the Loadhog team.
Outstanding Business
Loadhog
Sponsored by City Taxis
Loadhog is a multi-award winning, employ- ee-owned, UK manufacturer, dedicated to the design and manufacture, sale and pool- ing of returnable packaging solutions across a diverse range of industries.
We are committed to introducing new sustainable supply chain solutions that save companies valuable time, money and labour.
Loadhog has established itself as a key challenger in the marketplace through of- fering superior innovation within the de- sign of returnable packaging, highlighting the environmentally friendly benefits of our solutions, presenting Global customers with strong and significant business cases and in everything we do providing better service than our competitors through the passion of an employee owned workforce.
Our 2023 vision envisages Loadhog as one the major players in the global return- able packaging market place. Our primary focus is to grow in European markets and we plan a total export sales of over £20m. Longer term significant opportunities exist in Asia and the USA and they will be exploited as we gain a better understanding of specific mar- ket requirements.To ensure we are consist- ently innovating we have a key performance requirement that states, 25 per cent of our turnover must come from products less than four years old. This instils a drive within all employees to invent, challenge and imple- mentthelatestinnovationswithinreturn- able packaging.
Ian Snow of sponsor CT with Helen Fulson and Leon Smith of Twinkl.
High Growth
Twinkl
Sponsored by CT
Twinkl was founded in 2010, with a simple goal of ‘Helping Those Who Teach’.
This became its mission and is central to everything that happens at Twinkl today. The company provides high-quality, trusted teaching and learning materials, which are all teacher-created and checked. Individuals and schools can subscribe to use different resource ranges and a huge selec- tion are also available for free on the web- site. The materials range from schemes of work and assessments to online educational games and applications. Product lines in- clude handwriting and phonics schemes, a book club, a newsroom for children and
much more.
Twinkl now offers over 625,000 resourc-
es, with content added daily and around 4,100 resources added to the website each month.
The company provides individual and school subscription packages (which are for multiple users). Educators that use Twinkl vary widely and include nursery workers, parents, SEN educators and early years, pri- mary and secondary teachers. Twinkl mem- bers are based all across the world, with core markets including Australia, New Zealand, USA and the UAE.
With over 4.6 million members and op- erations in over 196 countries, Twinkl truly is a Sheffield-born company with a global im- pact.From2015to2016turnovergrewfrom £1,704,292 to £4,989,484.
Marcus Schofield of The Star with Chris Cham- bers and Andy Irvine of Shorts.
Professional Services
Shorts
Sponsored by The Star
Shorts is not an average accountancy firm but a team of specialists all pulling in the same direction.
We take a real interest in clients’ busi- ness developments and strategy so that we can contribute relevant ideas, one-to-one mentoring and specific advice as and when needed, alongside attending to the annual year-end accounts. We have more expert tax advisers than any independent firm in our region. So, we're always discovering sig- nificant tax savings, that others overlook, and see tax not as endurance, but as an op- portunity.
Other services include corporate finance, private client and wealth management.
Clients range from private individuals, partnerships or sole traders to large manu- facturing businesses, operating from loca- tions across the Sheffield City Region, and worldwide through our membership of the Praxity Global Alliance.
With a heritage of almost 130 years, we’ve grown from a local business to a nationally- recognised award-winning firm with offices in Sheffield and Chesterfield. We blend the best processes of the Big Four accountancy firms and integrate them seamlessly with- out losing the personal touch or individual attention.
Following several years of year-on-year growth, plans now incorporate consolida- tionwithinourmarketandconcentration on efficiencies and profitability.
James Hodson of Evoluted with Rachel Boyce and Gareth Roberts of Regather.
Social & Enviromental
Regather
Sponsored by Evoluted
Regather helps communities to become more resilient by encouraging co-operative involvement in the Sheffield food system, so that money is retained in the local economy, land is more productive, food is better qual- ity, health is improved and people have bet- ter awareness of and involvement with how the food system, from local to global, can be changed for the better.
Regather operates the following trading activities in the Sheffield / NE Derbyshire area:
FOOD
Regather Box: Fruit and veg box supply- ing Sheffield grown produce to 350+ weekly customers
Regather Farm: 15 acre market garden and agroforestry development to increase supply of Sheffield grown produce to Re- gather Box
DRINK
Regather Beer: Microbrewery produc- ing 4 craft beers and offering brewery ex- periences
Regather Cider: Seasonal production of cider made from Sheffield grown apples
Regather Bar: licensed bar at Regather Works and other selected Sheffield locations
EVENTS
The Folk Forest: annual summer music festival at Endcliffe Park and year round event series with Sheffield cultural partners
Club:music,filmandcomedyprogramme and venue hire at Regather Works.
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