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A big thank-you to everyone who attended the LCN Awards 2018 – once again, it proved to be a night to remember and it more than exceeded all expectations. Our thanks, too, to our judges, our sponsors and everybody who helped make it happen. The LCN Awards 2018 dinner and ceremony, presented by TV celebrity Kate Thornton were sponsored by HJ Weir, Ideal Manufacturing, Tonrose, Bryant Plastics and supported by CINET and The Guild of Cleaners and Launderers, and took place at the Birmingham Hilton Metropole on Thursday, 27 September.
Winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award went to Ken Cupitt, FGCL, Chairman of Council & Examination Board, Guild of Cleaners and Launderers who received a standing ovation from an appreciative audience.
Richmond Laundries received the Best Independent – Laundry title and Elite Dry Cleaners won the award for Best Independent – Drycleaning, their second on the night having received the title for Best Customer Service – Drycleaner.
Wayne Retallack of South West Laundry won the Best Entrepreneur - Laundry category at the LCN Awards 2018. Gareth Hodgen, White Label Cleaners, was named Laundry and Cleaning News Best Entrepreneur for Drycleaning.
There will be a full report in the December issue of LCN and we will also be posting a gallery of the night with links to a video of the proceedings. Look out for the full reports here and on www.LCNawards.co.uk.
It was a hat trick for Laundrapp, who came away with the title in three categories – Best Online Service Drycleaner, Best Online Service Laundry and Best Logistics Laundry. The team is pictured with Paul Haden of Tonrose, one of the Awards sponsors and Awards presenter Kate Thornton.
Faith Foote received the award for Best Customer Service Laundry on behalf of Guarantee Laundries.
The Best Green Policy Drycleaner was won by American Dry Cleaning Company (left, with Jackie Smith of sponsors Bryant Plastics) and the Best Green Policy Laundry by Oxwash (right, with Paul Haden of sponsors Tonrose). The Eco Laundry was highly commended.
Laundryheap (left) received the award for Best Innovation Drycleaner and SCI Textiles (right) for Best Innovation Laundry.
Laundry Republic took the title for Best Logistics Drycleaner (left); Zubair Diwan of Regent Dry Cleaners was awarded Best Multi Site Manager Drycleaner (centre, pictured with Phillip Kalli of sponsors Ideal Manufacturing) and Syed Masood of BandBox Laundry received the title for Best Multi Site Manager Laundry (right). Donnalee Andrews of Bubbles Laundromat was highly commended.
The team from Fairmont St Andrews in Scotland took the top title in the new category of Best On-Premises Laundry (left, pictured with Ross Weir of sponsors HJ Weir) and the Best Newcomer Laundry category was won by Laundra (right).
