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Winner: 2023/2024

France+Associates

Buildings designed for life

The winners of the Business of the Year Awards 2024 were France & Associates Ltd, an award winning specialist registered architectural practice based in Huddersfield. They provide an all-encompassing architectural and surveying service, being instructed as property finders to help and assess a property prior to its purchase and take on a property project from inception and manage the process to completion.

The business was started by Jonathan France, who saw an opportunity to provide exclusive services to those requiring home improvements due to access issues by providing beautifully designed spaces to those affected by disability.

2nd Place: 2023/2024

Wayland Additive Limited

In second place were Wayland Additive. Boasting a combined 150+ years of industrial electron beam manufacturing expertise, the company was born out of a high precision engineering team with a long and distinguished pedigree in the semiconductor industry, where electron beam widths are measured in nanometers and process instabilities are unacceptable. The use of and experience with eBeam technology in semiconductor manufacturing indicated that its use in additive manufacturing could be improved. Thus, since 2015 a team of eBeam experts from the lithography world began to coalesce around solving the single most serious problem inherent in the eBeam AM process, the charging of the powder.

3rd Place: 2023/2024

Sam Teale Productions Limited

We Make Magic

In third place were Sam Teale Productions Limited. Founded in June 2020, Sam Teale Productions was first established bursting with life, energy and ambition. Sam Teale found his love for video production at the age of 14, where he began uploading videos to YouTube reviewing various products.

Following years as a freelance videographer, Sam had big ambitions to take his self-taught skills to the next level and start his own videography business. Within such a short space of time, Sam Teale Productions has won other awards such as ‘Young Entrepreneur of the Year’ with Great British Entrepreneur Awards & Community.

In the past 4 years, since being founded, Sam Teale Productions have worked with major companies such as Booking.com, Santander, Budweiser China and more.

Business of the Year 2023/2024 Event