EW Technologies Win Best Business of the Year

 

Water Treatment Specialists EW Technologies cap fantastic year by winning coveted “Business of the Year Award” from ActionCOACH International.

 

EW Technologies, Ireland’s leading Water Softener Company were the proud winners of the “Business of the Year Award” at the ActionCoach International Awards held recently in the D4 Berkeley Hotel. Beating off stiff competition from over 200 applications the award capped a remarkable end to the most successful year in the company’s history.

 

Set up in 2002 EW Technologies has grown from a 2 man operation working out of a room in a Dublin to employing 24 staff,  and providing a further 8 new jobs in Ireland alone in 2011 in both its Blanchardstown and Galway offices. EW Technologies also set up its first Eastern European Office in Kanaus, Lithuania in June of this year.

 

Oliver Ginty, Director of EW Technologies puts the company’s success down to the associates working in the company. EWT have also invested heavily in improvements in its customer technology systems, the purchase of 10 new service vehicles, and new cost saving measures such as the reduction of expensive sales processes and more favourable finance agreements with suppliers since the beginning of the year.

 

“Our associates work extremely hard to provide the best quality service to our customers and are highly trained to handle customer queries and sales orders over the phone. This eliminates the need for expensive call outs to homes prior to installation” says Oliver. “We’ve also reduced costs across all sectors in the business and we are passing these savings onto the customer which means that we were able to reduce the price of our products by half”

 

One of EWT’s most popular products is their Water Softener systems that remove 100% of lime scale from homes and businesses while saving over €600 per year on hot water costs and cleaning products. They also won one of the largest commercial tenders of the year with the HSE to provide cost saving plumbed in water coolers and service to over 100 hospitals across the country for the next 5 years.

 

But perhaps the most impressive accomplishment of the year was EW Technologies entry to the Lithuanian market.

 

“In 2009 a young man called Antanas Calnis called into our branch in Galway looking for a job” says Oliver.  Originally from Kanaus in Lithuania, Antanas had been working for 5 years in Ireland before been made redundant in 2008.  “We didn’t have any extra work at the time but the fact that Antanas was determined to get off social welfare really impressed us so a few months later when a vacancy arose we called him back and got him working with us.”

 

“Antanas showed such enthusiasm and interest in his work that in early 2011 after initial research into the Lithuanian market we decided to set up an office in Kaunas and export our water treatment equipment for the first time ever. We already had systems working well for us in Ireland; it was just a case of transferring these systems to Lithuania and having the right person in place to run it properly which was Antanas” says Oliver

 

6 months on and EWT Lithuanian have employed its second associate in Kaunas and doubled its customer base month on month.

 

“2011 has been a fantastic year for us”, says Oliver. “With the new systems, marketing and structures we’ve put in place were hoping to create at least 10 more jobs in Ireland next year and were really looking forward to 2012. ”.

 

For more information on our half-price water softeners and water treatment equipment contact Oliver on LoCall 1850 39 28 37 or email sales(at)ewtechnologies.ie

 

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