Nation’s top 100 manufacturers identified

The Manufacturer Top 100 (TM Top 100) list, developed by The Manufacturer and judged by a panel of leading industry experts, aims to champion and identify dynamic leaders in manufacturing and promotes role models who will encourage young people into this vibrant and rewarding sector.

Following an unprecedented high number of nominations and more than a month of judging deliberation, the panel of expert judges have made the final decision on TM Top 100 2016.

The results will be announced at the event, where shortlisted candidates will arrive from all corners of the country to join the celebrations. The event brings together the crème de la crème of British manufacturing from business leaders and academia to government, to mark the outstanding achievements of the shortlisted candidates.

This year, the TM Top 100 judging panel consisted of:

Alan Foster, Operations Director, McLaren Automotive

Dick Elsy, CEO, High Value Manufacturing Catapult

Halil Bedevi, Managing Director, Hennik Recruitment 

Jan Ward CBE, CEO, Corrotherm

Jane Robinson, Director, Cutting Technologies

Judith Hackitt CBE, Chair, EEF

Max Roberts, Vice President & UK Leader, Manufacturing & Automotive,

Salesforce 

Nigel Fine, CEO, Institution of Engineering and Technology 

Paul Everitt, CEO, ADS

Philip Greenish CBE, CEO, Royal Academy of Engineering 

Professor John Perkins, Director, JP2 Consulting Ltdand Formerly Chief Scientific Advisor, BIS

Professor Sir Mike Gregory CBE, Former Head of the Institute of Manufacturing, Cambridge University

Rachel Eade MBE, Automotive Ambassador, Clydesdale & Yorkshire Banks

Terry Scuoler, CEO, EEF

Zoe Webster, Head of High Value Manufacturing, Innovate UK