The Association gained a coveted ‘Committed to Excellence’ 2 Star award at Quality Scotland’s Scottish Awards for Business Excellence after demonstrating its continuing focus on business improvement and ensuring that all areas of the organisation builds on its strengths to attain even higher levels of excellence throughout its entire operation.

Offering her congratulations to Dunbritton, Claire Ford, chief executive officer, Quality Scotland said: “The achievement of Committed to Excellence is a clear demonstration of an organisations drive and desire to achieve sustainable business excellence and truly embed the concepts of excellence. Congratulations on this European level of recognition and all the hard work and effort that has gone in to achieving it.”

Dunbritton achieved the plaudits at the 25th Anniversary of the Scottish Awards for Business Excellence, where they were joined by over three hundred guests across the private, public and third sectors, to celebrate Scotland’s outstanding achievements in the field of business excellence.

Sephton MacQuire, chair of the board of management, said: “I’d like to thank everyone at Dunbritton for their efforts. Achieving recognition for Business Excellence at a national level proves that we really are committed to delivering the highest possible levels of service to our customers through actively involving all of our Stakeholders. This represents real progress on our ‘Journey to Excellence’ and we have every intention of working toward the next level ‘Recognised for Excellence’ over the next couple of years. Well done and keep up the good work.”

Director Morven Short expressed delight at the staff team’s achievement: “Everyone has worked hard at identifying and delivering on areas for improvement across all our service areas and this Award confirms that we are ‘getting it right’.”