While Thorite is one of the UK’s largest distributors of pneumatic products and systems, it is a relatively small company when compared to some of the huge multi-national organisations that it had to beat to win this award.

The company says it looks upon all its suppliers as partners and works hard with them to fully understand what they do. It attributes its success to the importance that it places on customers; its policy is to make sure that everyone, including counter staff at its 11 sales & service centres, through to key account managers have the product knowledge necessary to provide the very best service for customers.