Groundworks engineering contractor Van Elle has been named as the East Midlands Chamber’s* Nottinghamshire Business of the Year.

The firm, which is headquartered in Pinxton, Nottinghamshire, also walked away with the High Growth Business of the Year award at a ceremony at Goosedale last night (24 Sep).

Over the past 30 years, Van Elle has established a reputation for delivering high quality piling and ground engineering solutions.

Steady growth year-on-year has confirmed its position as the UK’s largest independent piling and ground stabilisation contractor.

Group CEO Jon Fenton said: “We’re relatively new members of the Chamber and we’re extremely proud to have won this award.”

The company was one of ten to scoop an award last night, as the Chamber celebrated the strengths and successes of businesses across Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.

Nine of the winners (excluding the Excellence in Innovation award) will now go on to represent the county in the British Chambers of Commerce’s regional business awards – with the opportunity to go on to represent the East Midlands in the national awards in November.

Chamber President Liz Fothergill CBE said: “The Chamber’s congratulations go to all of this year’s winners. We had some stellar entries and the judging process was extremely tough, but all of the winning businesses thoroughly deserve their success.

“The standard of competition was extremely high, which clearly shows that, following a year in which the local economy has made remarkable progress, we have some real success stories of Nottinghamshire businesses doing well.

“Over the past 12 months, businesses in Nottinghamshire have been busy investing, innovating, exporting and growing and these awards are testament to the quality of businesses we have in this county.”

The full list of winners:

Small Business of the Year, sponsored by Nottingham Trent University
Winner – Your IT Department
Runners-up – Interactive Coding Equipment and Exporter Services

Export Business of the Year, sponsored by Santander
Winner – Rood Group Holdings
Runners-up – Ampetronic and Castle Pumps

High Growth Business of the Year, sponsored by Ryley Wealth Management
Winner – Van Elle
Runners-up – Quotient Clinical and Sygnature Discovery

Entrepreneur of the Year, sponsored by the Academy for Chief Executives
Winner – Matthew Tucker, of Morgan Tucker
Runners-up – Sam Sangha, of Asiana, and Mark Egerton, of Quotient Clinical

The People Development Award, sponsored by Central College Nottingham
Winner – BWB Consulting
Runners-up – A1 Flue Systems and Hopkins Solicitors

Best Use of Technology to Improve Business Performance, sponsored by Air-IT
Winner – Boom Online Marketing
Runners-up – Castle Pumps and Vodanile

Excellence in Innovation, sponsored by the Greenbank Group
Winner – 2BM
Runner-up – Siemens

Education and Business Partnership, sponsored by SDS Document Scanning
Winner – Career Champions
Runners-up – The Trent Academies Group and the South Nottinghamshire Academy

Business in the Community, sponsored by Responsible Solutions
Winner – Nottinghamshire Community Foundation
Runner-up – Turner & Townsend

Young Person in Business Award, sponsored by the Money Shop
Winner – Josh Turner, of Air-IT
Runners-up – Zack Paul, of Castle Pumps, and Hannah Myers, of Flare Clothing Limited

Business of the Year, sponsored by the Garrandale Group
Winner – Van Elle