AES Engineering Ltd has been selected as the UK North East region’s Economic Innovator of the Year in the annual awards run by The Spectator magazine.
The awards seek out the most ingenious and promising entrepreneur-founded businesses from every sector and region of the UK.
The company is one of six regional winners demonstrating the best of UK innovation, selected by a panel of top judges.
Group IT Director Stuart Welsh presented AES’s business journey to a panel of top judges drawn from all over the UK and represented the group at the awards ceremony in London.
AES Engineering group Managing Director Chris Rea said:
The businesses highlighted in these awards are rooted in their communities and ‘invested’ in them in a way that large multinationals seldom are. It is a privilege to be among the talented group of entrepreneur-founded companies selected from every region of the UK
The other winners were:
Economic Innovator of the Year – Domin
Innovator to Watch – Nellie
Excellence in Sustainability – Polymateria
North West & North Wales Breakthrough – Audiebant
North West & North Wales Scale Up – Map of Agriculture Group Ltd
Scotland & Northern Ireland Breaktrhough – BIOCAPTIVA
Scotland & Northern Ireland Scale Up – Artemis Technologies
North East Breakthrough – Rezon
South West and South Wales Breakthrough – Domin
South West and South Wales Scale Up – ANNA Money
Midlands Breakthrough – UBInfrastructure
Midlands Scale Up – Moasure
London and South East Breakthrough – Novai
London and South East Scale Up – Code First Girls
