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News Release from: Excellence North West
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 30 March 2007
Encouraging UK manufacturers to achieve
excellence
In the UK, Excellence North West has partnered in Yorkshire and the North East to form a body which helps businesses to improve their performance in all areas of their operation.
Encouraging UK businesses to achieve excellence In the UK, Excellence North West has partnered in Yorkshire and the North East to form a body which helps businesses to improve their performance in all areas of their operation Manufacturing and engineering companies in the North of England can benefit from a new body which helps organisations to improve their performance in all areas of their operation
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 6 Jan 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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North of England Excellence brings together Excellence North West with partners in Yorkshire and the North East to create a single force to encourage businesses to aspire to world-class standards.
It will offer seminars, training and other support and will also be responsible for running the annual North of England Business Excellence Awards, often described as the 'business Oscars'.
Manufacturing and engineering companies have been keen participants in the awards in the past.
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Robert McBride Limited's Burnley detergent operation and the UPM Shotton paper mill were amongst the winners in 2006, while Hitachi Automotive Systems Europe and Eaton Heavy Duty Transmissions won awards in 2005.
North of England Excellence is a not-for-profit company which will help organisations to assess the whole of their operation from financial results, quality of leadership and management, efficiency of procedures and processes to customer satisfaction and corporate social responsibility, and implement improvement programmes.
It will also act as an accreditation body for schemes including the nationally recognised Investors in Excellence standard.
Chief executive of North of England Excellence is David Teale, the former managing director of Manchester Airport Aviation Services.
He said: "Since its launch in 1994, Excellence North West has played a major part in helping manufacturers and many other businesses in the North West to improve their performance and has become one of the most successful regional excellence bodies in the UK." Teale explained: "By joining forces with other partners to create North of England Excellence, we can now bring those benefits to organisations throughout the whole of the North." Excellence North West will play a leading role within the new company, with support from Excellence Yorkshire and the North East Quality Group.
The launch was supported by the North West Regional Development Agency, Yorkshire Forward, One North East, The Northern Way, the CBI, the Institute of Directors, The North West Business Leadership Team and culturenorthwest.
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