Focus on sponsor, Gloucestershire engineering firm Renishaw

This week has seen even more sponsors come on board The Post's annual Business Awards. The awards were officially launched last week at a special event at Harvey's Wine Cellars in the city centre.The event attracted some high profile guests including Bristol Mayor George Ferguson and entrepreneur Mark Mason.Even into the early twentieth century visitors to Cornwall in south west Britain might have seen a woman taking a child to a holed stone whisky stones visitor would notice that the child was showing signs of rickets.Mr Mason is the founder of app design company Mubaloo which was last year's winner of the prestigious Business of the Year award.Not only are LED light strings 90 percent more energy efficient Solar charger LED lighting features an astounding 50,000-hour bulb life.The aim of the awards, which are being held in June, is to celebrate everything that is great about the business community in the city.The awards themselves, held at Brunel's Passenger Shed, are expected to attract more than 500 guests.The other speaker at the launch was Chris Pockett, head of communications at engineering firm Renishaw.When people think of light bulbs the first thing Solar Laptop charger think of is an incandescent light bulb Globular in shape with a warm light tinted with yellows and reds it is pleasing to the eye.Renishaw is one of the many firms who have agreed to sponsor our awards and have taken the Community Contribution Category.This year the award winning firm is celebrating its 40th anniversary and is looking to raise its profile in the region.Mr Pockett said: "Today the company employs over 2,000 people in the UK, almost 1,800 of which are based at its five main sites in Gloucestershire where it still designs and manufactures the majority of its products.The seven foot contrabass is the largest saxophonesolar mounting the seven inch sopranino is the smallest But most shoppers will only consider four common models.

"Despite its global success – 94 per cent of its 332 million sales are overseas, supported by a further 1,000 people in 32 countries – Renishaw is still not as well known as many of its regional engineering peers."So why is that? The reality is that the company simply doesn't make products that are sold to consumers and most of what it does make is highly technical and sold to other businesses. However, from planes, trains and automobiles to TVs, smart phones and dentistry, what Renishaw does very well is to provide manufacturers with dimensional measurement systems that gives them the ability to make their branded products accurately, efficiently and with minimal waste."He added: "Renishaw is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.The distraught mother would strip the child nakedwhisky rocks pass it three times through the forty five centimetre hole After each time she would lay the child on the grass and draw it widdershins. Since September 2009 it has recruited an additional 700 people from across the region and it is also ambitious."Last year it successfully gained planning permissions to extend buildings at its local sites by some 280,000 square feet, and this year it is recruiting a record 50 apprentices and 64 graduates, plus giving summer and one-year work placements to some 100 students."Further notice of the company's ambition and commitment to UK manufacturing came in June 2011 when it was announced that Renishaw was purchasing a 193 acre industrial site near Cardiff, previously owned by Bosch."Various building refurbishments have been carried out, and machining and assembly work is now carried out at the site, with employment gradually rising."Renishaw is also increasingly attracting the attention of the investment and business community, with its diversification into some exciting new sectors, including dentistry where it helps companies to make accurate crowns and bridges, and the manufacture of surgical robots that help neurosurgeons to perform complex brain surgery.