Awards
On 1 July 2024, Nexen Tire published its 23/24 ESG Report including the detail that it recently earned a Gold Medal from EcoVadis, the global ESG rating agency. EcoVadis is the world’s largest ESG ratings platform used by more than 130,000 companies in 180 countries around the world.
Klarius Products won Employer of the Year Award at the 2024 Staffordshire Chambers Business Awards. Sponsored by the West Midlands Reserve Forces and Cadets Association, the award recognises progress the business has made engaging with its workforce and providing opportunities for progression.
ETB Autocentres has made its depot in Lydney the 52-branch network’s centre of the year in its annual network awards. The network uses the award as a focal point for its ongoing drive to raise standards. The Forest Road centre won the contest judged on sales performance, customer feedback, email collection, and sales campaign uptake. The centre has been part of the network since 2020.
Goodyear has gained two awards at the Asia Responsible Enterprise Awards (AREA) ceremony, held on 28 June 2024 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The awards recognise the company’s commitment to sustainable and responsible business practices.
Bridgestone Retail UK has won two Bridgestone European Network Retail Awards recognising the company’s performance levels – both collectively and individually.
The company’s expanding wholesale department led by Paul Carter – jointly with retail director Paul Nunn – won the Financial Performance prize, after achieving remarkable revenue growth of 8.6 per cent in 2023 compared to 2022 and a 4.5 per cent increase in margin during the same period.
TyreSafe has named the recipients of its 2024 award winners during its annual briefing on 13 June at the National Motorcycle Museum, Birmingham. The briefing included contributions from several sectors within the tyre industry, as well as the broad coalition of road safety stakeholders that has been built by the tyre safety body, emphasising TyreSafe’s mission to ally with other automotive sector organisations to promote vital tyre safety messages. The awards were sponsored by several large tyre manufacturers and distributors, Bridgestone, Continental, Pirelli, Yokohama, Micheldever/Protyre, as well as other members of TyreSafe, such as National Highways, Ring Automotive, and TJA Associates.
Kumho’s Ecsta ultra-high performance tyre range for cars and SUVs has been making an impression on independent tyre testers in 2024. The manufacturer was also lauded for the new specialist electric vehicle tyre in the Ecsta range, winning an International Forum (iF) Design Award 2024 for its Ecsta PS71 EV.
Automechanika Birmingham Garage Awards 2024, hosted by the Independent Automotive Aftermarket Federation (IAAF) and headline sponsored by LKQ Euro Car Parts, is set to receive a dose of laughter and entertainment as the talented comedian Justin Moorhouse joins the prestigious event as the guest entertainer.
Time is running out for garages to nominate candidates for the first-ever Repxpert Awards, which will feature during Schaeffler’s brand new national Repxpert Conference. Garages have until Friday, 10 May to put forward potential candidates for the ‘Apprentice of the Year’ and the ‘Extra Mile’ awards.
On 2 April 2024, BKT received Excellent Level certification from Caterpillar Inc. under its Supplier Excellence Recognition (SER) Process for the second consecutive year. The Excellent Level certification is the highest honour that Caterpillar Inc. bestows on suppliers, who consistently meet stringent production and quality requirements, under the SER Process.
Nexen Tire has won the Red Dot Design Award in the product category. The prize was awarded to the tyre manufacturer for the N’Fera Sport S tyre.
Tyre industry entrepreneur and philanthropist Dr Michael Welch OBE, has been named alongside BAFTA and Emmy-winning satirist Armando Iannucci and award-winning journalist and charity founder Sally Magnusson among the 57 fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) announced the 2024. Other 2024 fellows include: Leonie Bell, Director of the V&A Dundee, public health advocate Professor Jason Gill, and Professor Elham Kashefi, a world leader in the field of quantum computing.
Retreading supplier, Kraiburg Austria has been awarded the “Kununu Top Company” seal again in 2024 after also doing so in 2023. The seal recognises companies with high employee satisfaction and is awarded exclusively based on independent reviews on Kununu. Kununu means “blank slate” in Swahili and, according to the operators, “stands for all companies that have not yet been rated”. The platform, which was founded in Vienna, has been online since 2007 and currently employs around 130 people in Vienna, Porto, Berlin and Hamburg.
Readers of Europe’s top car magazine, Auto Motor und Sport, have voted Brembo their favourite brake brand for the 11th time. The vote was part of Auto Motor und Sport’s prestigious Best Cars 2024 awards. Drivers, mostly from Germany, voted for the best brands in 26 product and service-related categories. Brembo swept the board in the Brakes/Brake Pads class, earning an overwhelming 72.7 per cent of the 92,798 votes submitted.
The international automotive supplier Forvia Hella has received the John Deere Award in the sustainability category. The leading manufacturer of agricultural machinery honours Forvia Hella for its heat recovery system at the Großpetersdorf site in Austria. The system saves around 175,000 kilowatt hours of natural gas per year and therefore around 32,000 kilograms of CO2. The award was presented at the John Deere European Supplier Conference in March 2024 in Mannheim, Germany.
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