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Issue date: October 15th, 2008
A RECENTLY formed division of Ringwood-based Raymond Brown Group is currently celebrating its success in this year’s Hampshire Business Awards, having scooped the prestigious KPMG Company of the Year Award.
Raymond Brown Minerals & Recycling overcame competition from the internationally renowned Chewton Glen Hotel and satellite navigation giants Garmin (Europe) Ltd to win the title for their innovative strategy and business practice.
Phil Cotton, a partner at KPMG’s south coast office, said: ‘Raymond Brown Minerals & Recycling stood out as the winner for their clear commercial strategy and business practices, which have the added benefit of enhancing and protecting Hampshire’s environment.’
As well as supplying aggregate and materials to the construction industry, the Nursling-based company offers sustainable solutions to divert material from landfill and is leading the way with its ‘first of a kind’ aggregate recycling plant – a £1.4 million cutting-edge facility that has already diverted some 55,000 tonnes of material from landfill this year.
Raymond Brown Minerals & Recycling have also pioneered new technology by taking incinerator bottom ash from the county’s three energy recovery facilities and processing it into a substitute aggregate. This state-of-the-art facility is set to produce up to 75,000 tonnes of aggregate per annum – further reducing the amount of material sent to landfill.
Kelvin White, managing director of the Raymond Brown Group, said: ‘I am delighted that our commitment to the industry has been recognized by the Hampshire Business Awards. This is a fantastic achievement for us and testament to the hard work and dedication of a great team of people.’
Raymond Brown Minerals & Recycling division is only one year old and represents the strategic amalgamation of four diverse and competing businesses that had evolved within the Group over the preceding 10 years.
‘The new company structure has achieved the results we hoped for and more,’ added Mr White. ‘The new clarity of operation has allowed us, in just 12 months, to outstrip the previous year’s combined performance by 472%, with the staff team increasing from 114 to 140 in the same period to support the expansion in activity.’