BRUM FIRM'S FIRST PRIZE

Engineer takes top business honour  

City engineering firm CA Sothers has won one of the West Midlands' most coveted business
honours.

The Hockley electrical engineers and contractors beat off rivals at last
night's final of the Green Shamrock awards for small businesses to win
the competition's domestic category. And, after being presented with
prizes by guest of honour Clare Short MP at Birmingham Council House,
a proud financial director Stephen Craddock said:

"This company was set up in 1926, the same year as the National Grid.
Now we have won this prestigious award. To be given this and judged by people
from outside the business, adds a great deal of weight to the award."

The company, which has installed electrical equipment at a range of
high-profile businesses, including the Hard Rock Cafe, Mailbox restaurants
Fish and Denial and the Belfry, clinched the domestic honour after seeing
sales soar from £12 million to £20 million since 2001. C A Sothers also
maintains a proud family tradition, with managing director Robert Hinton
the grandson of original founder Charles Sothers, who set the firm rolling
back in 1926.

"This is still a family firm, we try to retain that family ethos. We have got
over 25 people who have done more than 25 years - we think it is very
important to build that relationship with people."

source: Jon Griffin, Business Editor, Birmingham Evening Mail

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