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Darlington Company Wins a National Business Award

Fifteen Digital, were named winners of the Vonage Business Enabler of the Year award at the 2015 Lloyds Bank National Business Awards gala dinner ceremony, held at the Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane. This award recognises organisations that help businesses to increase profitability by improving efficiency, developing talent and implementing innovation.

The Darlington based company, which also has an office in Stoke on Trent, was brought together in 2006 after two brothers, Mark and Rob Adams set up an IT company named Anet and John Borthwick had a company called 15 Digital Marketing and they decided to merge the two companies together. The company then grew and moved into web development and in 2007 James Tierney came on board. In 2014 Fifteen Digital bought a B2B Telecoms Business, expanding into telecommunications and Ian Walker joined the company. This brings together four areas of Fifteen Digital, technology, software development, telecommunications and marketing, connecting all businesses areas and maximising their growth.

The Lloyds Bank National Business Awards judges said: “The final shortlist provoked a lot of discussion amongst the judges, prompted by the exceedingly high quality of submissions and achievements. Fifteen Digital are worthy winners, exhibiting the benefits that technology can bring to business areas not normally associated with being hi-Tech. Their solutions helped deliver tangible benefits to their customers whilst not being technology for technologies sake.“

Rob Adams, Director at Fifteen Digital said, “We’re just a company from Darlington, to win something as prestigious as this is absolutely incredible for us, it’s really going to transform the way we do business and hopefully open a lot of opportunities for the business and the team. I couldn’t be prouder of my team.“

Simon Burckhardt, Managing Director at Vonage UK, “This award champions companies that enables others to succeed. While we had a great bunch of finalists from very varied industries, Fifteen Digital really shone out. We were impressed by their outstanding case study showing how they had transformed the business of one of their clients, enabling them to compete in a highly competitive market with a tenth of the resources of their nearest competitor. Rarely do you see such examples that so perfectly fit the award’s category. Congratulations to the Fifteen Digital team.“

Over 1200 business leaders, entrepreneurs, politicians and media representatives gathered at the Grosvenor House Hotel for the 14th annual National Business Awards. The Awards were presented by Sky News’ Ian King and Poppy Trowbridge and welcomed former Astronaut and second man on the moon, Buzz Aldrin as headline speaker.

The Prime Minister opened proceedings at the ceremony with a message for this year’s finalists. He told the audience: “I want to take this opportunity to say a huge thank you on behalf of the whole country, for all that you’re doing to create jobs and growth in Britain…tonight we celebrate all that you’re doing, from your leadership in digital and innovation, to the Duke of York’s new award for University Entrepreneurship, these awards are rightly the Oscars of great British business. “The awards recognise people who have the guts to strike out on their own, who have the tenacity to work hard for every deal and who have the innovation and vision that lets you grow your business and take new people on. Its people like you who are making this the most entrepreneurial and dynamic period in our country’s recent history. So thank you again for all you’re doing.“

The winners across all 18 categories included Crown Paints Limited, which triumphed in the Grichan Partnership Sustainable Business of the Year category, Premiership Rugby, winner of The Corporate Citizenship Award, and The Body Coach, winner of the Lloyds Bank New Business of the Year.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Fifteen Digital .