Press Release
END-O-LINE’s Jan Clinches
Top Award
The boss of a top IT equipment recycling company has been named Essex Businesswomen of the Year – just a decade after starting her company from her kitchen table.
Jan Smith, Managing Director of Maldon-based End-O-Line Services (EOLS), was voted the top businesswoman in the Essex Countywide Business Awards.
Jan, who started EOLS in 1996 with just £10, said: “I am really pleased to have won such an accolade just as we are about to celebrate End-O-Line’s 10th anniversary.
“ I know it is my name on the award but I could not have achieved it without the hard work of all the staff at End-O-Line. As the company has expanded, their belief in its success has grown with it and they have continued to be as dedicated as I have in making it a success.”
One of the awards’ panel judges, Ross Chaplin, said of Jan: “She has shown great dedication to business growth, professional and personal accomplishments, community involvement and advocacy for women in business in Essex.”
Fellow judge Bev Booth said: “She is undoubtedly a very talented and enigmatic business women who is full of energy and capability.”
Jan’s success comes just a month after she was a finalist in the Institute of Directors’ East of England businesswoman awards.
End-O-Line is the foremost independent IT asset disposal company in the UK and gives a new lease of life to redundant equipment such as computers and printers.
The company operates a zero landfill policy for the 5,000 pieces of IT equipment it handles each week on behalf of its Blue Chip clients including global banks and financial institutions.
After all data is erased, 50 per cent of the computer equipment is resold, 40 per cent is given a new lease of life as components and the remaining 10 per cent is passed to other recycling companies to use in an environmentally-responsible way.