2012 Information
Looking Back
Sponsor Profiles 2010
Principal Sponsor The Aberdeen Business School, at the Robert Gordon University is the principal sponsor of this year's Northern Star Business Awards. Professor Rita Marcella, Dean of the Aberdeen Business School said "I'm delighted that the School has had the opportunity to sponsor the Northern Star Business Awards again this year as they recognise innovativeness, entrepreneurship, drive and dynamic management, all of which are qualities we recognise the importance of and nurture in our students, who are a fairly dynamic bunch." Visit www.rgu.ac.uk/abs
Supporting Sponsor Supporting Sponsor Aberdeen Harbour is one of the UK's busiest ports, and the centre of activity for the energy industry's marine operations in North-east Europe. With trading links to more than 35 countries across the world, the port is a key regional resource and a vital part of Northern Scotland's infrastructure. With a wide range of industry sectors contributing to record annual traffic figures, Aberdeen Harbour handles over 24 million gross tonnes of shipping and cargo exceeding 4.5 million tonnes, worth over £1.5 billion. In order to maintain this, and so that the port can continue to provide industry-leading facilities, the Harbour Board has implemented a £65 million development and maintenance strategy designed to upgrade and expand capacity, opening up the port to new opportunities, including the offshore renewable industry sector. Throughout 2010 developments will include further improvements to Point Law Peninsula, the strengthening and deepening of Commercial Quay East and the £30 million redevelopment of Torry Quay that will provide more space and enhanced opportunities for users, allowing them to make cost savings through sharing resources. Aberdeen Harbour continues to maintain a vital link between the UK mainland and the Northern Isles. Throughout 2009, over 142,000 passengers travelled between Aberdeen, Shetland and Orkney on the regular ferry service and visiting cruise vessels. Visit www.aberdeen-harbour.co.uk
Sponsors of the Lifetime Achievment Award
Aberdeen City Council provides the vital infrastructure for the residents and business of Scotland’s third city. The Council is locally governed by elected councillors who represent the city’s 200,000 residents across forty-three wards. Services include roads building and maintenance, waste collection and recycling facilities, parks and gardens and vital social care services, primary and secondary education, art galleries, museums and over 23,000 homes. The City Council also plays a pivotal role in the future of the city and presents a year round events programme to encourage tourism along with an ambitious economic development programme to maximise future inward investment. Visit www.aberdeencity.gov.uk
Sponsors of the People Development Award
Aberdeenshire Council works hard to create and sustain the best quality of life for the 230,000 people in Aberdeenshire through the development of happy, healthy and confident people, safe, friendly and lively communities, an enterprising and adaptable economy and a diverse culture. The Council aims to provide excellent services for all by involving, responding and enabling, finding new and more efficient ways of doing things, providing elected leadership for its area, working with its partners in the North East and beyond and always looking to the future. Visit www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk
Sponsors of the Rising Star Award bmi regional, the UK's most punctual airline is part of the wider award winning bmi group and operates an all jet fleet from regional airports including Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds Bradford, Manchester and East Midlands to over 14 destinations.
Sponsors of the International Business Award
Confiance Employment Services Limited is a Guernsey company specialising in employment services for the offshore energy, marine and related industries. With a Management team that can boast in excess of 60 years involvement in personnel and payroll management specifically in an offshore environment, Confiance Employment Services Limited are probably the most experienced company in their field. Confiance Employment Services Limited pride themselves on the quality of the services that they provide and work closely with their clients to ensure that the processes put into place result in maximum effectiveness with minimum disruption. Our links with the North East continue to grow and we are looking forward to providing solutions for more locally based clients in the near future. Chief Executive Neil Carrington says “ We are proud to be sponsoring this category again for the second year at the Northern Star Business Awards and are sure that the entries for this years award will be as competitive as 2009" Visit www.cesguernsey.com
Sponsors of the Excellence in Customer Service Award Since their establishment in 1995, Fergus and Glover have led the way in the field of dental surgery in Aberdeen. Today they remain Aberdeen's leading aesthetic and restorative dental practice with a strong emphasis on client care and service. The cohesive team of 28 professionals, who're spearheaded by respected dental surgeons Jacqueline Fergus and George Glover, are wholly committed to delivering excellence, investing in new skills development, and bringing new techniques to the north east of Scotland. Clients are guaranteed to experience cutting-edge treatments tailored to their own personal requirements. Visit www.fergusandglover.co.uk
Sponsors of the Sustainability Award FMS Construction Ltd, based in Forfar, Angus, has been in business for 10 years and is currently one of the largest construction companies in Angus and Tayside.The two directors are Jamie Tosh and Derek Wann. We are experienced in residential new build and conversion as well as dealing with commercial projects. We have most trades directly employed in house which offers far more flexibility to our customers. We are currently looking to expand into the Aberdeen area offering all services to architects and developers.
Sponsors of the Overall Medium Business Award The Mercure Ardoe House Hotel & Spa is everything you expect in a 21st century luxury modern hotel. This 19th century mansion house has been brought right up to date with 109 traditionally decorated bedrooms grounds, a fully equipped leisure club/spa, thirty acres of beautifully maintained grounds and two restaurants with Blair’s, our fine dining restaurant, recently being awarded an AA rosette. Ardoe is also the perfect setting for any event, with rooms catering for 2 to 600 people. The hotel starts an extensive refurbishment program in October beginning with our centrepiece event suite, The Ballroom, making Ardoe the ideal setting for any occasion. Sponsors of the Overall Small Business Award Northeast Reprographics is a locally owned Aberdeen based company founded in 1995 to operate as a Xerox partner to support Xerox products and services in the North of Scotland. NER is currently employing 50 members of staff after the acquisition of a majority shareholding in Inverness company Solution X. NER were upgraded to Xerox Premier Partner status in 1999 based upon their market penetration and outstanding customer support record. The company boast some of the most prestigious oil related organisations as clients and has achieved UK Xerox Premier Partner of the year title no less than 4 occasions. Our service includes Xerox machine supply and service, call centre and helpdesk facilities, in-house staffed reprographics facilities and secure document shredding and recycling. Our supplies division was launched in 2007 and due to recent success an additional salesman has been added to their team in order to fulfil the demand of customer needs. North East Reprographics can help you use your Xerox kit to enable your business save money. Whether it is automatic meter reads, document management, document workflow or even our new EIP applications like Secure Access (Swipe card entry) with follow-you printing, NER can work with you to streamline your work processes. We are committed to a working partnership with our customers to reduce and control document print costs and to find innovative ways to sustain our environment with all our clients. Visit www.nerepro.co.uk Sponsors of the Best use of ICT Recruitment specialists Right People take a fresh approach to understanding your requirements, your business and your culture. We appreciate the value the right people can add to your business, the importance of finding the right candidates and the cost of getting it wrong. Our rigorous process of candidate selection enables us to identify only the best and most suitable candidates for each role. Specialising within the Accountancy, IT, Management, Sales & Marketing, HR and Business Support sectors within the Aberdeen market, the team at Right People are perfectly placed to assist you in pursuit of human excellence and welcome you to contact us on 01224 628877 or at (www.rightpeople.uk.net) to discuss how we can make things happen for you. Discover what you can achieve with the Right People... Visit www.rightpeople.uk.net
Sponsors of the Renewable Energy Award The Scottish European Green Energy Centre provides a focal point for European organisations engaging in low carbon energy projects and activities. SEGEC supports engagement with institutions, networks and technology platforms, influencing the future policy agenda and identifying opportunities for collaboration across different industry sectors. SEGEC facilitates partnerships, collaborative projects and funding packages designed to accelerate the development and deployment of low carbon energy technologies, and disseminates the results. An independent, not-for-profit organisation, SEGEC is sponsored by the Scottish Government, Scottish Enterprise, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Scottish Power and Scottish and Southern Energy, and is part funded by the European Regional Development Fund. Visit www.segec.org.uk Sponsors Socially Responsible Company Wood Group is an international energy services company with $5bn sales, employing more than 29,000 people worldwide and operating in 50 countries. The Group has three businesses—Engineering & Production Facilities, Well Support, and Gas Turbine Services—providing a range of engineering, production support, maintenance management and industrial gas turbine overhaul and repair services to the oil & gas, and power generation industries worldwide. Visit www.woodgroup.com Associated Sponsors
Northsound Radio is the commercial radio station serving Aberdeen and the North-east of Scotland. As the North-east’s number one radio station and with almost 30 years under its belt, Northsound has established strong ties with the local community and businesses.
In 1986 we set out to create the best print company we could. Over two decades later, the XIC team have won so many awards and achieved so many industry firsts that we think our original idea must have been quite a good one. It’s very gratifying that we’ve achieved very high levels of client retention - some of our customers have been with us practically from the day we first opened our doors! And we’re delighted that Aberdeen & Grampian Chamber of Commerce were one of them. Design It, Print It, Promote It, Display It, Let’s Do It!
 AECC is delighted to welcome back the Northern Star Business Awards and the local business community to this prestigious event for the seventh year. We hope you enjoy the delicious meal prepared by our team and enjoy the fantastic event. AECC is proud to have an award winning in-house catering team who can create bespoke menus to suit in all occasions. We are proud to support local producers and strive to use the best produce and products from throughout Scotland. AECC celebrates 25 years this year and we would be delighted if you could join us at our 25th Birthday Party on 25th September (in aid of CLAN), and we look forward to welcoming you to AECC in the future. www.aecc.co.uk
Originally established in 1946 as C W Cameron Ltd, Cameron Presentations is a family run business delivering high-quality event presentation and multimedia services. The company has led developments in its sector and is currently one of the most experienced and respected in the service facilities industry. Cameron Presentations provides comprehensive presentation solutions to a variety of clients operating in a number of different fields. However, the ethos remains the same regardless of the client - "Create engaging, memorable experiences using the highest quality equipment and most talented personnel." Our full-service offering allows for client support through idea generation and presentation design to logistical trouble-shooting and technical guidance on the day of the event.
Skene House HotelSuites are self-contained apartments with similar services to those available in American all-suite hotels and European apartment hotels. At Skene House HotelSuites, you can choose a one, two or three bedroom suite, with all the comfort and flexibility of home and the luxury and convenience of hotel services. Situated in three central locations in Aberdeen, each has it’s own unique style and character, yet all provide a warm welcome, excellent service and superb accommodation. Skene House Rosemount is ideally located for any meeting or conference, set right in the city centre, with car parking. There are 4 meeting rooms in a brand new £4 million development of a renovated church. Two of these are situated under the viaducts of the road, but with bright lighting, high arched ceilings and access to natural daylight. When you have a meeting at Skene House HotelSuites a dedicated conference organiser will be on hand during the planning of your meeting and during your meeting to ensure that everything runs smoothly. The Press and Journal is a long-standing success story in the Scottish newspaper industry. The voice of the north, which can trace its history back to 1748, prints eight editions daily and boasts a readership of 298,000 adults every week. The P&J is the only regional newspaper dedicated to daily business coverage of events in the north and north-east and prides itself in bringing a mix of local, national and international news to its readers
Established in 1999 Fifth Dimension is a team of corporate presenters and magicians that provides a range of training services and corporate entertainment. At training events, conferences and seminars our unique delivery style, Magically Enhanced Training™, uses humour and magic as a visual aid to bring a fresh approach to learning and team development. Information is remembered and retained due to the ingenious related magic, which acts as a memory aid. We have a proven track record of engaging audiences at a wide variety of levels and events and have delivered sessions on a range of subjects including behaviours and attitudes in health and safety, leadership, communication, project management, creativity, problem solving, time management, organisational skills, decision-making, planning and the benefits of working in a team. In fact, almost any behavioural message can be enhanced using our approach. It is inspiring, creative and opens people to change. We also provide a range of magical entertainment services including close up magic at functions and hospitality events, after dinner cabarets and a full illusion show.
Discover a service style that’s unusually warm, caring and friendly, beside the golden sands of Scotland’s famous Granite City. Less than a mile from the hustle and bustle of Union Street, 3 miles from the AECC and 7 miles from the Airport and with complimentary onsite parking Doubletree Aberdeen is ideally located whatever your reason to visit the city. Doubletree offers three different room choices; Classic, Premier or the 5 star luxury and exclusive Platinum Club the choice is yours. All 8 event rooms have natural day light and can accommodate up to 150 people therefore suiting all your business and social requirements. Footdee’s restaurant and the Atrium bar is open to non residents for lunch, dinner and coffee’s throughout the day. Residents of the hotel and members of Breakers Leisure Club can enjoy a leisurely swim or an energetic workout. With the recently launched new products at the Spa the treatment list is endless for polishing and pampering, non members welcome.
Brewin Dolphin specialises in providing complete investment management services, combining financial planning expertise with our position as one of the UK’s largest independent private client investment managers. Managing over £23 billion on behalf of clients, our service is shaped by the team’s knowledge of industry trends locally and globally, and their ability to adapt to today’s fast-changing markets. We work hard to build strong client relationships based on trust, confidence and the highest level of professionalism. Our clients which include individuals, charities, trusts and businesses reap the rewards of having a national investment manager at a local level in Aberdeen. |
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