Ayrshire Business Awards 2024
Sponsors
The Business Awards allows you to align your brand with excellence amongst not only Ayrshire businesses but national and international businesses too. This ensures that leading industries recognise your company.
Being a sponsor of the Ayrshire Chamber Business Awards represents true value by offering a whole host of branding, networking and data capture opportunities not only in print and online but face to face at the event itself.
Our sponsons presence, at the Ayrshire Chamber of Commerce Business Awards, gives their companies invaluable exposure by allowing them to reach and connect with quality audiences, often results in business growth.
Thank you to our Principal Sponsor and to all of our Ayrshire Business Awards Category Sponsors.
Principal Sponsor
Business Gateway
Business Gateway is a publicly funded service contributing to the economic well being of Scotland by providing access to free business support services.
Business Gateway provides free business support for anyone in Scotland. We want to help entrepreneurs who need support to start-up and grow their businesses by providing one-to-one business advice, online resources and by strengthening the connection between organisations and the business community.
Secondary Sponsor
Rainton Construction Scotland
We are Scotland’s public realm and civil engineering experts, specialising in high-profile public realm contracts and major commercial projects. We pride ourselves not just on the quality of our results, but on the quality of the project experience we deliver.
Category Sponsors
Ayrshire’s Growth Business of the Year
(0-10 employees)
Woodward Inc.
Woodward’s purpose is to design and deliver energy control solutions our partners count on to power a clean future.
Ayrshire’s Growth Business of the Year
(11-50 employees)
Business Gateway
Business Gateway is a publicly funded service contributing to the economic well being of Scotland by providing access to free business support services.
Ayrshire’s Growth Business of the Year
(51+ employees)
James Frew Ltd
Formed in 1911, James Frew Ltd is one of the largest privately-owned building services companies in Scotland, providing integrated property solutions for public and private sectors.
Apprentice of the Year
Ashleigh (Scotland) Ltd
We are a Main Contractor, who covers a diverse range of projects across both the public and private sector including Housing, Education, Commercial, Refurbishments, Industrial and Healthcare.
Charity of the Year
Woodward Inc.
We offer a variety of professional hard and soft FM services to a multitude of clients across various sectors and industries in the UK.
Community Award
GSK
We are a focused biopharma company with strong momentum and big ambitions, to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
Community Wealth Award
Booth Welsh
Using our core capabilities and highly experienced people, our integrated engineering services provide solutions in process engineering, process control and systems integration, electrical and instrumentation design, control panel design, build & installation and asset management services.
Developing Ayrshire Young Workforce Award
Developing the Young Workforce Ayrshire
We are part of Scotland’s youth employment strategy to better prepare young people for the world of work. 20 Regional Groups have been set up across Scotland to connect employers with education.
Driving Sustainability Award
Halo
HALO Digital, Cyber and Innovation park is a net zero carbon mixed use development providing its residents and the wider community with jobs, economic growth, skills development, access to employment opportunities, clean energy and housing.
Entrepreneur of the Year Award
Dains Accountants
Dains is an independent provider of expert business advisory and accounting services, providing end-to-end business support, with bespoke advice tailored to your unique business and personal needs.
Going Global
International Trade Business of the Year
Neogen Europe
At Neogen, we partner with our customers to protect and enhance the world’s level of food and animal safety, offering a diverse suite of solutions for the food, beverage, animal protein and agriculture industries.
Hospitality Business of the Year Award
Trump Turnberry
A world-class golf experience. King Robert the Bruce. Book a tee time. Ranked a Golf Digest Top 100 Courses in the World.
Innovation Award
Wallace McDowall Ltd
Here at Wallace McDowall, we have the knowledge and expertise to turn your fabrication needs into solutions: quickly and effectively.
Start-Up Business of the Year Award
SimpsInns
Ayrshire’s ‘Hospitality Business of the Year’, SimpsInns, are a family owned hospitality group with luxury hotels, restaurants, spa, golf and leisure destinations in Ayrshire.
Tourism Award
Stagecoach
You probably know us as the local bus company in your area but, fun fact, we’re one of the largest bus operators in the UK. We’ve achieved so much in the last 40 years and we’re proud of our go-getting spirit.
Workplace Health and Wellbeing Award
Lighthouse IT & Network Solutions
At Lighthouse, we don’t just support your IT, we become part of your team. We are IT experts who find the best solutions to your IT challenges.