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Ecostyle Ltd picked up the Business Innovation Award, sponsored by The Knowledge Hub, at the inaugural FSB Bedfordshire Small Business Awards on 27 May, held at Luton Hoo.
The awards honoured small businesses that had excelled against a range of measures and performed well under the recession of 2009. The competition was open to all businesses with fewer than 50 employees based in Bedfordshire.
Entrants for this award were asked to show how their business goes about encouraging creativity and new thinking and how knowledge or technology play an important part in the development of the business, focusing on a particular example of a successful change implemented in the last two years as a result of an innovative idea.
The Business Innovation prize was
awarded to Luton-based Ecostyle Ltd for its educational renewable energy
kits.
The demonstration models are used to promote
awareness and understanding of renewable energy emphasising the
importance of
the production of energy from sustainable sources. The
runner up prize was awarded to locker storage company, Lockertek.
Eamonn Keenan, Associate Director at The Knowledge Hub said: "We were very impressed by Ecostyle's commitment to renewable energy and to the importance of helping young people understand the issues. Their models of wind turbines and solar panels really make the technology easy to understand. This is a business based in Luton that manufactures locally, so the local economy benefits too."
Innovation is a key area of activity for the University which offers businesses access to training, events, academic expertise, technology and research, to help them to innovate and achieve sustainable growth. Initiatives such as Innovation Day, at which Simon Hall, Director of Ecostyle Ltd was a workshop speaker, provide delegates with the skills they can take away and apply to their businesses.
The FSB is a leading business organisation in the UK and ran the Small Business Awards 2010.
For more information about the awards and the winners, visit the Small Business Awards 2010 website.
