ECC Business Awards 2025

ECC Business Awards 2025

Winners Announced

Congratulations to all of our winners and everyone who was shortlisted.

Small Business of the Year (sponsored by Rathbones):
  • Business Fives
  • Logan Property
  • PekoeTea – WINNER
  • Street Assist
Mid-sized Business of the Year (sponsored by Henderson Loggie):
  • Cadpeople
  • Clean Digital
  • Muckle Brig
  • Muckle Media
  • The Yard
  • YOURGB – WINNER
Large Business of the Year (sponsored by LNER):
  • Capella Charity
  • Edinburgh Airport
  • Forth Ports
  • Lothian Buses – WINNER
  • Sidey
  • Signature Group
Responsible Business of the Year (sponsored by City of Edinburgh Council):
  • Clockwise Offices
  • Edinburgh Food Social CIC – WINNER
  • Muckle Brig
  • The Leith Collective
Service Excellence Award (sponsored by Stagecoach)
  • Air IT
  • Bonnie & Wild
  • Cruise Forth Ltd
  • Edinburgh Dog & Cat Home
  • Edinburgh Gin
  • Holiday Inn – WINNER
Inspiring Partnership (sponsored by The Balmoral Hotel)
  • Cruse Scotland Bereavement Support x BlackRock Edinburgh
  • Edinburgh Playhouse x Theatre Works UK
  • Essential Edinburgh x Street Assist
  • Fazenda x Cyrenians – WINNER
  • Lothian Buses x Shelter Scotland
  • Vattenfall x Edinburgh Science x Powering Futures
Developing the Young Workforce Award (sponsored by Developing the Young Workforce Edinburgh, Midlothian & East Lothian)
  • Forth Ports
  • JP Morgan
  • RoslinCT – WINNER
  • Saltire Patisserie
  • Sidey
Director of the Year (sponsored by Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP)
  • Celine Sinclair, The Yard
  • Gilly Bain, YOURGB
  • Lea Harrison, Edinburgh Trams
  • Nathalie Agnew, Muckle Media – WINNER
  • Stuart Maxwell, National Trust for Scotland
  • Teddy Lee, Maki & Ramen
Rising Star of the Year (sponsored by Edinburgh Airport)
  • Brendan McAllister, Forth Ports
  • Caitlin Nightingale, Capella Charity
  • Melissa Wratt, Clean Digital
  • Isla Gale, Holyrood Distillery
  • Linsay Brown, Muckle Media
  • Martijn Zengerink, Sheraton Grand Hotel & Spa – WINNER
Employer of the Year (sponsored by Clockwise Offices)
  • Cadpeople
  • Clean Digital
  • EiB Group
  • Mott Macdonald
  • Muckle Media – WINNNER
Excellence in Digital Marketing (sponsored by Cameron Events)
  • City of Edinburgh Council –  Experience The Beauty – WINNER
  • City of Edinburgh Council – Resident Rewards
  • Clean Digital
  • Essential Edinburgh
  • The Union – Royal Scots Club
Innovation in Business (sponsored by Forth Ports)
  • Air IT
  • City of Edinburgh Council
  • Edinburgh College
  • Heriot-Watt University – WINNER
  • Opulence Security & Services Ltd
High Growth Business of the Year (sponsored by Royal Bank of Scotland)
  • Edinburgh Letting Centre
  • Edinburgh Trams
  • Forth Ports
  • Luxford Burgers
  • RoslinCT – WINNER
  • Tata Consultancy Services
International Business of the Year (sponsored by Edinburgh Gin)
  • Cadpeople
  • Clean Digital
  • Ogilvie Ross LLP – WINNER
  • PekoeTea
  • Women’s Business Club
Net Zero Champion of the Year (sponsored by Harley Haddow)
  • Agilico
  • Bank of Scotland
  • Edinburgh Airport – WINNER
  • Mott MacDonald
  • RoslinCT
  • The Leith Collective

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Thanks to everyone who came along and made the night so special. More information on the 2026 awards will be available soon.