Win for Shelforce At Inaugural Housing Awards

Window and door manufacturer Shelforce won the ‘Most Significant Service Improvement’ award at the first ever Housing Awards.

Everglade Windows has been named Manufacturing Business of the Year for the fifth time at the 2023 West London Business Awards. One of the most successful ever winners at the event, Everglade Windows now holds seven WLBA trophies, including their five Manufacturing Business titles.

Yogesh Gopal, director at Everglade Windows said: “What an amazing achievement for Everglade Windows! Winning the Manufacturing Business title for the fifth time is such an accolade and testament to the relentless hard work that our team does to deliver certainty to customers.

“Everglade Windows is truly London born and bred, starting our manufacturing journey from a garden shed back in 1980. Now we operate from two state-ofthe-art manufacturing facilities covering an area of 65,000 sq.

ft., delivering more than 1,000 windows and doors every week.”

The awards judges said: “Everglade have invested heavily throughout the pandemic, alongside maintaining a growing customer base. They have retained their profits, perfected their machinery and now burst out into the post-pandemic market set to expand at speed.”

Yogesh added: “It’s always great to walk away with a trophy at the end of the evening, but the West London Business Awards also offer amazing opportunities to network with our fellow West London business leaders.” www.evergladetrade.co.uk www.shelforce.com

The ceremony took place at Twickenham Stadium on Friday 24 February and was hosted by stand-up comedian Rory Bremner.

City Housing, part of Birmingham City Council, launched the awards as part of its commitment to culture change and to acknowledge the hard work, successes and achievements of staff and businesses involved in social housing in Birmingham.

Shelforce, which specialises in providing PVCu and aluminium products to local authority building projects, was nominated in the service improvement category, and shortlisted as finalists alongside two others.

The company was chosen as the winner due to its diverse and inclusive workforce, who understand what needed to be successful to create an environment in which they are able to lead, innovate and use their skills to drive and improve the business. That team approach helped drive financial improvement from a £1.8 million pressure in 2014 to profit/surplus within 4 years, with the company on course for record turnover this year.