Sheffield Forgemasters CEO wins IoD Overall Director of the Year

Dated: 1 October 2010

The Institute of Directors (IoD) would like to announce that Graham Honeyman CBE, Chief Executive Officer of Sheffield Forgemasters International, is the winner of the inaugural IoD Overall Director of the Year UK Final.

Commenting, Miles Templeman, Director-General of the IoD, said:

“I would like to extend my warmest congratulations to Graham. He is an outstanding winner and I wish him and Sheffield Forgemasters more success over the years to come. It is great to see a UK manufacturing firm thriving and exporting. We too often forget that manufacturing is one the UK’s biggest strengths. Today’s award is a timely reminder of that fact.”

He added:

“This is the inaugural year of the Director of the Year Awards UK Final. However we have been holding awards like these in a selection of our regions for many years, and due to their success and the high calibre of the winners, we decided to create a UK Final, bringing together the winners from across the regions to compete against one another for the ultimate accolade – UK Director of the Year.”

Full list of awards

Overall Director of the Year
Winner – Graham Honeyman CBE, Sheffield Forgemasters International (Yorkshire)
Runner up – Simon Bitcliffe, Webmart (South)

Young Director of the Year
Winner – Cathy McCorry, Grafton Recruitment (Northern Ireland)
Highly Commended – James Wollard, Polythene UK (South) and Joe Blackman, Green Ant Events, (Wales)

Public/Third Sector Director of the Year
Winner – Mike Phillips, West Mercia Supplies (West Midlands)
Highly Commended – Purnima Tanuku, National Day Nurseries Association (Yorkshire) and Mark Powles, Business Stream (Scotland)

Director of the Year for Environmental Leadership
Winner – Mervyn D.Jones, Aquamarine Power (Scotland)
Highly Commended – Julian Dennis C Dir, Wessex Water (South West) and Duncan Goose, Global Ethics (South)

Family Business Director of the Year
Winner – Sarah Dunning, Westmorland (North West)
Highly Commended – Jason Wouhra C Dir, East End Foods (West Midlands) and Stephen Blatchford, Chas. A. Blatchford & Sons (South)

Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire Bank Investing for Growth Award
Winner – Graham Honeyman CBE, Sheffield Forgemasters International (Yorkshire)

Global Director of the Year
Winner – Graham Honeyman CBE, Sheffield Forgemasters International (Yorkshire)
Highly Commended – Conor Walsh C Dir, Andor (Northern Ireland) and David Price CBE, Chemring Group PLC (South)

Director of the Year – SME
Winner – Simon Bitcliffe, Webmart (South)
Highly Commended – Patricia O’Hagan, Core Systems NI (Northern Ireland) and Mark Box, Rieke Packaging Systems (East Midlands)

Director of the Year – Large Company
Winner – Ciaran Sheehan, Care Circle Group (Northern Ireland)
Highly Commended – Helen Bunbury, Ogier (Jersey) and Stephen Martin, Clugston Group (East Midlands)

Photos

Photos of the event can be viewed at this link, approximately one hour after the last award has been given:

http://archive.sbw-photo.net/gallery/IoDawards011010/G00003l8Hc8iWKyk

The password is iod1010.

ENDS

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Notes to editors

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