UK converter wins industry and local business awards

Sussex, UK-based self-adhesive label converter AJS Labels has continued it winning streak with the addition of five more commendations and awards to its trophy collection.

At an awards ceremony held to celebrate business excellence in the Arun district of West Sussex, the company scooped three awards, including the top trophies Business Person of the Year and Overall Business of the Year.

Husband and wife co-directors, Andrew and Jayne Scrimgeour, were jointly named Business Persons of the Year and the company also triumphed in the Training and Development category. These three latest awards join the four others already won in 2010, the most recent being the PrintWeek Customer Service Team of the Year Award 2010. 

‘We are very proud to have won these awards and join our local business community in celebrating the pocket of business excellence that exists down here on the Sussex coast,’ said Andrew Scrimgeour. ‘We are delighted, once again, to have all the hard work and dedication of everyone at the company acknowledged.’ 

The Arun Business Partnership’s annual awards highlight examples of best practice and excellence in businesses and organizations throughout the area of Arun in West Sussex.

Congratulating AJS on its winning streak, organizer Miriam Nichols said: ‘The 13th year of the Arun Business Partnership, Business of the Year Awards certainly didn’t prove unlucky for Littlehampton-based AJS Labels. Theirs is a true success story, having been formed 18 months ago as a result of a management buy out and in that time turning a substantial loss into a healthy profit whilst retaining all its 50 staff and recruiting 10 more.’

The company was also recently runner-up in the Packaging News UK Packaging Award for SME of the Year 2010. In the same awards, AJS Labels was a finalist in the Label of the Year category.