26th June 2010

Leyland Trucks is top winner twice in a row at Manufacturing Excellence Awards

  For the second year running Leyland Trucks Ltd is the overall winner in the annual Manufacturing Excellence Awards (MX Awards).

  The MX Awards are the UK's premier recognition scheme for manufacturing companies and are run by the UK’s leading professional engineering body, the 160 year old Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE).

  Leyland Trucks came top in a field of 18 finalists that included some of Britain’s top manufacturing companies. It received the BIS Manufacturing Advisory Service Award for Manufacturing Excellence from Mark Prisk MP, Minister for Business and Enterprise.

  This the first time in the 28 years that the MX Awards have been running that a company has been Overall winner two years in succession. This year Leyland Trucks also won in the ‘Business Development and Change Management’ category, recognising the development of robust business processes to meet changing business needs and market conditions.

  Leyland Trucks has been a past winner in the prestigious MX Awards on a number of occasions. Last year, as well as being overall winner, it won the ‘Customer Focus’ category. In 2008 it was the winner in both the ‘Best Financial Management’ and ‘Logistics and Resource Efficiency’ categories. And in 2004 it came top in the ‘Best Financial Performance’ sector.

  Leyland Trucks’ Managing Director, Andrea Paver, said that every employee should be immensely proud to be the overall winner for a second year in a row, something that has never been achieved by another company.

  ”This is a highly competitive and very prestigious award scheme in which we were pitched against hundreds of manufacturing concerns across the UK, many of a world class standard. The judging process was very rigorous and thorough and it's therefore a real tribute to everybody in the company that we were finalists in nine of the ten categories, winner in one and the overall winner.

  “It is evident from the feedback we have received that our strong and unique ‘Team Enterprise’ culture was a major factor in our success. The fact also that we achieved this during the most challenging economic period that we have faced for a long time adds to the significance of the award. It shows that our efforts to maintain our competitiveness by continually improving our products and processes have been worthwhile and will stand us in good stead as the economy lifts out of recession.”