Awards
The Peter James Motor Group – wins the award for Business Growth at The Docklands Business Club and the East London Chamber of Commerce Business Awards 2011
Dagenham based Peter James Motor Group has won the award for Business Growth at this year’s Docklands Business Club and East London Chamber of Commerce Business Awards. The awards recently took place at the East Winter Garden in Canary Wharf. Sponsored by the Canary Wharf Group and London City Airport the awards aim to recognise the achievements of east London businesses.
The Peter James Motor Group were presented with this award in recognition of the improvements they have made in the past three years in the following key areas: new products, services and marketing techniques, sales, cost control, profits and staff training. The award is given to businesses that can achieve growth in accordance with their business plan and their future plans for continued growth.The sponsor for this award was the East London Business Place (ELBP). Their Senior Relationships Manager, Glen Addis presented the award to Peter James’ MD Peter Harris. Glen Addis said: “It is quite evident that the Peter James Motor Group are winning business accolades for growth because they understand what it takes to make a company successful and progressive. That is - sticking to their principles, prioritising excellence and keeping to their business plan. They are becoming known as an organisation who can manage that tricky balance of customer satisfaction and commercial excellence”.
This was the first time that the Peter James Motor Group had entered for these awards which is a great achievement in light of the stiff competition. Runners up in this category were Purely Gadgets and Oakleafe Property Services. The Peter James Motor Group received a glass trophy and framed certificate.
This is the second time that the Peter James Motor Group has won an award this year for being a growth business. They won the Growth Business of the Year award at the Barking and Dagenham Business Awards.
In addition Peter James Motor Group received approval from Trading Standards this year. Continued recognition of their success proves that east London businesses are helping to re-boot our weakened economy.
Peter James Motor Group won the Growth Business Award at the 2011 Barking & Dagenham Business Awards.
The Peter James Motor Group has a history of being associated with and awarded quality standards.
This includes:
• Motor Industry Code of Practice – Service and Repair
• OFT (Office of Fair Trading) approved
• British Standard Kite mark PAS 125 – vehicle body repair
• The Vehicle Builders and Repairers Association Ltd (VBRA) – A leading Trade Association for Vehicle Body Building, CV, Car Body and SMART repair.
The Peter James Motor Group is part of the ApprovedGarages.co.uk network which works to an OFT approved Code of Practice. This ensures that services adhere to strict quality guidelines and comply with all relevant legal requirements. Garages are obliged to participate in a programme of quality and performance checks to ensure high standards. All ApprovedGarages.co.uk garages aim to give extremely high levels of care and attention and excellent workmanship.
The Peter James Motor Group has an extraordinarily strong commitment to customer care and this partnership with ApprovedGarages.co.uk demonstrates that commitment. The ApprovedGarages.co.uk Code of Practice works to help individual garages to improve their performance, assist customers and help to resolve any issues.
Customer’s are surveyed to measure customer satisfaction with results showing that 99/% of customers would recommend the Peter James Motor Group to family and friends.