The prestigious Peterborough Telegraph Business Excellence Awards recognise and reward a cross section of Peterborough based businesses and the vital role they play in the success of the region.
Celebrating the company's remarkable pandemic pivot and post-pandemic move to manufacturing sustainable exhibition stands
Some 300 local business people attended the glamourous ceremony for the 27th annual Peterborough Telegraph Business Excellence Awards, held on the 23rd November at the Holiday Inn West. The GH Display team were excited to be included as one of the three finalists and ecstatic to go home with the award. BBC DJ Melvyn Prior, who was hosting the awards, told the guests “This year saw an unprecedented number of entries. Whittling down the shortlist and choosing the winners meant some tough decisions for our judges”.
Photo credit: David Lowndes. Guest speaker James Ketchell, sponsor Ashley Killingsworth. Small Business of the Year winners GH Display and finalists Vero HR and Flagship Partners.
Why GH Display for Small Business of the Year
GH Display was on a positive growth trajectory with an ambition to offer environmentally sensitive exhibition stands with sustainable manufacturing, from its rural Cambridgeshire workshop. Business was steady, strong and profitable and the GH Display team was growing in numbers and expertise. After 40 years in Werrington, the operation moved to a new 2-acre site following the acquisition of local competitor, Hytner Exhibitions, with the move providing the much needed space to grow.
The vision was clear, to offer a UK manufactured sustainable exhibition stand solution to exhibitors whilst growing the customer base and increasing turnover by 25%.
The strategy to meet this vision was for GH Display to:
- Upscale its manufacturing plant in Peterborough by 2023 to enable more production throughput whilst providing more storage space for storing reusable (and therefore more sustainable) stand components.
- Generate its own renewable energy to power its manufacturing and printing operations and reducing its own carbon output as a business.
- Develop exhibition and display products that offer real sustainable solutions to customers with no green washing in sight.
