Russell Taylor Group honours business awards winner

RUSSELL Taylor Group has presented a major award to a Birkenhead engineering supply company which was among the winners at the prestigious annual Wirral Business Awards.

Heaps & Partners was named Business of the Year (11-49 employees), an award sponsored by Russell Taylor Group. The trophy was presented by group HR and quality manager Jennifer Scott at the gala awards evening at Thornton Manor, Wirral.

With headquarters in Corporation Road, Heaps & Partners is one of the UK's leading manufacturers and distributors of fluid control equipment.

Its export department has been shipping goods all over the world for more than 130 years and since 2001 has been supplying equipment to more than 85 different countries.

Russell Taylor Group chairman said: “Heaps & Partners was a worthy winner of the Business of the Year award.

“The company has a reputation for offering high quality products and service and we at Russell Taylor are proud to be associated with an organisation that mirrors our own values as well as being  part of a business community that is constantly striving to ensure our businesses and the local economy grow.”

Paula Basnett, chief executive Wirral Chamber of Commerce, which organised the Wirral Business Awards, added: “We were delighted to have the support of Russell Taylor Group in organising the Wirral Business Awards 2015.

“Their sponsorship was a very important part of the overall awards project, enabling Wirral Chamber of Commerce to produce what was the largest annual awards event we have ever held in Wirral.

“It is reassuring that companies such as Russell Taylor Group are happy to work in partnership with us in continuing to promote Wirral as centre of business excellence.”