Flags flew at Top 50 Indie Sewell on the go sites recently as its parent company, Sewell Group received two major awards on the same day.
Sewell Group enjoyed a royal breakfast with the monarch’s representative in East Yorkshire as the Lord Lieutenant presented the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for Promoting Opportunity. A delegation from the company then travelled to London to make their sixth appearance in The UK’s 100 Best Companies to Work For Awards, this year being listed at 45.
HM The Lord Lieutenant, Jim Dick OBE, said: “This is one of those moments when we give an award to a company which absolutely deserves it. I know from working with Sewell Group in other ways that promoting opportunity is in your DNA. You help people develop and it’s fantastic. This is an award from the monarch and there’s no higher award than that.”
Emily Jones, retail manager at Sewell on the go, was at the presentation, she said she was really touched to have been invited as it was such a special occasion. “Everyone back at our site was watching the live stream and celebrating. We had flags flying and it was really nice for customers to be able to see that and for them to ask us about it. I work for a place that’s been given an award by the Queen!”
Dr Paul Sewell OBE, chair of the business, said: “These are the sort of milestones which make you realise how far you have come.
“We had never won a Queen’s Award before and although we’ve been very successful in the Sunday Times Top 100 over the last 14 years, we are now in the large company tier. We’ve grown the business in terms of adding new disciplines and geographically and this tells us we are going in the right direction.”
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