Results tagged “Docklands Business Club”

Oakleafe Property Services was the big winner at the Docklands Business Club Awards in Canary Wharf on Thursday night.

The Essex based firm won the business of the year award, while its owner Lee Goodwin picked up business person of the year.

When Sepp Blatter announced Russia and Qatar's selection as World Cup hosts for 2018 and 2022 there was a third country celebrating.

Turkey has the second largest construction sector in the world after China and is a strong exporter to both the winners, which will need mammoth construction works before the tournaments.

After collecting the marketing gong at the Docklands Business Club awards last month Tower Hamlets College is looking to the future.

The college's Dream Destination campaign, symbolised by a Las Vegas-themed image, proved a hit with judges, forming part of a successful, fully-integrated recruitment campaign.

By Jim Fitzpatrick

It's been a period of goodbyes and thank yous lately.

Two people who have been a credit to East London over many years are retiring - Rita Beckwith, as Chairman of Docklands Business Club, and Adrian Greenwood, as the chief executive of Gateway Housing Association.

They say lightning doesn't strike twice but that wasn't the case at this year's Docklands Business Club Awards.

Mike Tobin, CEO of Marsh Wall-based communications firm TeleCity Group, scooped Business Person Of The Year, for the second time in a row.

After eight successful years as chairman of Docklands Business Club Rita Beckwith is passing on the baton.

Rita, who is also managing director of City Cruises, announced her departure at the DBC's glitzy annual awards ceremony at the London Hilton Docklands Riverside.

Docklands Business Club has announced its plans for this year's annual awards.

The group, working alongside East London Chamber of Commerce, will be holding the black tie event at the Hilton Hotel in Rotherhithe on September 22.

Fashion shows can often feel like secret clubs, stuffed with members clad in ripped bin bags encrusted with diamonds and labels.

That's not the plan for the Docklands Fash and Fun Show, which returns for a second twirl at the Radisson Edwardian Hotel on February 24.

As the crunch continues to bite, students are looking towards businesses for their future careers with an increasingly nervous gaze.

But can businesses grab a lifeline by going back to college?

The landscape of Canary Wharf has changed remarkably in the last 25 years.

Towers have surged from the soil and businesses have flourished in an area once regarded as a "social and political hot potato".

A giant sliced salmon is beached on the side of the River Lea, looking out over the Olympic Stadium. Its bones are roof trusses, its guts are a factory which bubbles into life around 4am, and its pink hue was touched up by builders just before its opening in October last year.

Welcome to Forman's Fish Island, the new home of the east end's last family-run salmon smokery.

The days of developing within a company seem to be in the past, especially with the recession prompting businesses to cut back on training.

However, the management team at London City Airport has been attempting to buck that trend and last month received recognition when they scooped a staff development and training prize at the Docklands Business Club awards.

This year's Docklands Business Club Businessperson of the Year was Mike Tobin, who has helped transform Telecity into one of Europe's top providers of data centres.

The Wharf visited one centre in Marsh Wall, which serves as a hub for as much as 90 per cent of the country's internet traffic.

Click here for The Wharf's picture gallery of this year's awards

Mike Tobin scooped this year's Businessperson of the Year award at the Docklands Business Club and East London Chamber of Commerce Business Awards dinner last night.

The TelecityGroup CEO picked up the coveted trophy from Giles Broadbent, editor of award sponsor The Wharf.

They may be constantly plugged in to video conferences and Facebook, but the average businessperson still prefers to venture out of the cubicle when times get tough.

While the credit crunch was flashing its blood-stained teeth at the start of the year, companies crammed into the Radisson Edwardian in New Providence Wharf for a networking event for the Docklands Business Club.

The financial crisis has shaken the public's faith in banks, governments and their own security.

However, Spectator Business editor and former investment banker Martin Vander Weyer doesn't believe it's time to look into a "wacky alternative" to capitalism.

As businesswoman and fitness trainer Susi Russell celebrates the first anniversary of the launch of her popular Power Plate suite, The Power Studio, the fiercely ambitious former private jet attendant has mixed emotions.

History is already littered with heroes.

So will future generations remember the brave hairy soul who valiantly cowered behind a rock for 10 minutes to avoid getting thwacked in the ribs by enemy fire?

DOCKLANDS recruitment agency 2B Interface is bidding to add another trophy to its mantelpiece.

The Greenwich company - which won the Docklands Business Club's Business Start-Up Award in 2007 - is among the London finalists in this year's HSBC Start-Up Stars competition.

2B Interface specialises in supplying Polish workers for the construction, furniture manufacture, shopfitting and customer service industries.

A NEW developer for the £2.7billion Canning Town and Custom House regeneration project could be in place by the end of the year.

The government's Thames Gateway team are interviewing five consortiums clamouring for the vacant spaces on the East London building project, which could bring 11,000 new homes to the deprived area.

The ambitious three-phase project is scheduled to begin this year, with a 2022 completion date. The London Thames Gateway Development Corporation claims the scheme is still on track, despite the withdrawal of developers Lend Lease and housebuilder Taylor Wimpey in January.