Excellence in Business Awards 2022: Pictures of every winner and why they were chosen
By Chris Burn
Published 29th Nov 2022, 16:29 BST
Updated 29th Nov 2022, 16:37 BST
The Yorkshire Post’s Excellence in Business awards 2022 took place last week in Leeds, with more than 400 people in attendance at Headingley Stadium.
Here is a list of who won in each category on the night...
13. Start Up Business of the Year - MediMusic
START-UP OF THE YEAR
WINNER: MediMusic
NOMINATED: Apollo Capital; HACIEN Tequila; Yorkshire Financial Planning; YourCare Management. MediMusic uses artificial intelligence and machine learning that mimic the human brain’s response to music for the benefit of clinical pain and anxiety. It has won praise from the NHS for helping to reduce agitation in patients with dementia and recently closed a £1.2 million funding round with investment from business angels, local organisations and VC fund Finance Yorkshire. It has also been signed up for the Abbey Road Red programme - an incubator for music tech entrepreneurs.
Dr Jacqueline Twamley, Senior Academic Research Nurse of the Centre for Health Research & Innovation at NIHR Lancashire Clinical Research Facility, highlighted how the MediMusic service had provided a “positive outcome” for a 75-year-old patient with dementia, helping to lower his heartrate and reduce agitation.
The company has already started the process of establishing a US office and it is hoped the service can also have use in palliative care and Parkinson’s cases. Photo: Gerard Binks
SUSTAINABILITY AWARD
WINNER: All Seasons Group
NOMINATED: AES Engineering; Bluetree; Ethical Furniture Network; Stillingfleet Lodge Gardens. Formed in 2017, Sheffield’s All Seasons Group provide energy-efficiency measures and renewable energy technologies to UK home and business owners. They have helped improve thousands of previously poorly-insulated homes across the country, saving tens of millions in heating bills.
The company works closely with more than 60 local authorities to improve poor energy efficient homes with high energy costs and are accredited by the UK’s leading compliance and regulatory organisations.
Installs it has completed in the last 12 months have resulted in an estimated £50 million in lifetime savings.
Up against some brilliant other finalists, All Seasons Group was selected by judges as the winner for their work helping thousands of people live in more energy-efficient properties and cut their bills at the same time. Photo: Gerard Binks
TECHNOLOGY AND DIGITAL AWARD SPONSORED BY OPENREACH
WINNER: Radar Healthcare
NOMINATED: BigChange; BOXT; Resolve; Titus. Radar Healthcare is helping to digitally transform healthcare. Its technology enables health and social care organisations to harness vital data insights so they can improve care, predict future care needs and prevent clinical incidents from being unnecessarily repeated. From a team of two 10 years ago, today Radar Healthcare employs more than 80 staff and supports organisations both here in the UK and internationally. Some of its partners include the Emirates Health Services, Four Seasons Health Care Group, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust and Nuffield Health. The company has also secured £9million additional funding from equity and venture capital investors 24Haymarket - money that will be used to support further product development and increase customer support. It is helping to ensure incidents of issues like patient falls are reduced - taking pressure off our healthcare system and improving outcomes. The award was picked up by Yorkshire Post business editor Chris Burn. Photo: Gerard Binks
16. Business Leader/Entrepreneur of the Year - David Bond of Sheffield Forgemasters
BUSINESS LEADER/ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR sponsored by Hall Brown
WINNER: David Bond, Sheffield Forgemasters
NOMINATED: Steve Adams, Mattress Online; Younis Chaudry, Regal Food Products; Kevin McCabe, Scarborough Group International; Sarah Pawson, Fruition Group.
CEO of Sheffield Forgemasters David Bond led an audacious project to bring Sheffield Forgemasters into public ownership and now leads the business as it enters a new engineering age. Three years of negotiation with the Government saw the MoD take over the shares capital of the company in 2021 - securing its future for decades and releasing a £400m investment programme.
Some of the largest engineered steel products in the world are produced at Sheffield Forgemasters and it now intends to play a key role manufacturing components for technologies that could supply the UK’s future energy needs. It is already working with Rolls-Royce to support the deployment of small modular reactors and has joined the Offshore Wind Growth Partnership. Photo: Gerard Binks