Pictured: McCauliffe Civil Engineering Limited won the Best
Small Family Business (turnover less than £3M), sponsored by
Awards' project managers V Formation, in the 2011 Midlands Family
Business Awards. Left to right: Annabel Prow (Wilsons), John
McAuliffe, Anna-Marie McAuliffe, Stephen McAuliffe (all McAuliffe
Civil Engineering Limited), and Hilary Campton (V
Formation)
The Wolverhampton business set up by Irish brothers Larry and
Maurice McAuliffe over forty years ago, has been voted the region's
best small family business, in the Midlands' only Awards initiative
for family businesses and their leaders.
McAuliffe Civil Engineering has won the Best Small Family
Business of the Year category, sponsored by V Formation, in the
Midlands Family Business Awards.
The company picked up the trophy at a prestigious dinner at
Birmingham's Town Hall on the 17th November in front of an audience
of more than 300 guests.
The Best Small Family Business category is one of ten in the
Midlands Family Business Awards. Now in their second year, the
Awards are run by The Wilson Organisation and are a not-for-profit
venture, with all proceeds going to charities supporting young
enterprise and young people - The Children's Society and The Willow
Foundation.
This award category, new for 2011, recognises the large number
of smaller family businesses, as Hilary Campton of category
sponsors V Formation explains: "Small family business make a
significant contribution to the Midlands GDP and the judges were
looking for evidence of financial stability, good governance,
philanthropy, and clear family values."
McAuliffe Civil Engineering was established in 1971 by the
McAuliffe brothers and has since grown to be regarded as one of the
Midlands leading environmental civil engineering contractors. The
business has always remained in Wolverhampton and since 2003, the
business has had the second generation of the McAuliffe family at
its helm, and today works with housebuilders, main contractors,
commercial developers, public bodies and environmental and
geotechnical consultants. The company provides a packaged offering
across demolition, land remediation, reclamation and earthworks,
and haulage services.
Runners-up in the best Small Family Business of the year
category were Civil Defence Supply of Lincoln and T Nutt & Sons
of Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
Civil Defence Supply is a specialist in the design of police
protective and defensive systems. The company was founded in the
early 1990's and today is run by Gerard Bauer, designer and
production manager, alongside his brother Eran, in charge of sales
and administration. The company supplies its niche service and
products to every police force in the UK, all HM prisons,
tri-service MoD, and governments overseas.
Chesterfields' T Nutt & Sons is a family run and owned
carpet and flooring business, that is today run by brothers David,
Keven and Patrick Nutt, and was founded by their great grandfather
Thomas Nutt in 1869.
The headline category in the Awards - The Midlands Family
Business of the Year - was won by Nottinghamshire-based Herbert
Baggaley Construction Limited and at the Awards' dinner, the
company's Managing Director Ian Baggaley accepted the Award from
Chris Taylor of Smith Cooper, headline sponsor of the 2011 Awards,
and Charlotte Perkins, managing director of Wilsons. Judges for the
headline category were Chris Taylor, Mark Samworth of
Leicestershire family business Samworth Brothers and Wilsons' Gary
Cormack and Annabel Prow.
Runners-up in the headline Award were Derbyshire's C W Sellors
and Salts Healthcare of Aston, Birmingham.
For more information, a full list of the winners and runners-up
in the Awards' ten categories and a gallery of images from the
Awards Dinner, visit: www.familybusinessawards.co.uk.
The Wilson Organisation, based in Nottingham, underwrites the
Awards. The company is a third generation family business and
provides professional independent insurance, financial, risk
management and corporate finance solutions to businesses and
individuals both regionally and nationally. For more information,
visit: www.wilorg.com,
or Tel: 0115 942 0111.