Red Carnation Hotels wins prestigious award

Red Carnation Hotels is delighted to announce they have just been awarded one star in the Best Companies Accreditation Awards 2009. These awards have been established to identify the very best companies to work for in the UK.

They acknowledge excellence in the workplace and accreditation certifies that the company is doing a great job of focussing on workplace engagement as an integral component its success and growth.

"Our core value is exceptional customer service," comments Jonathan Raggett, Managing Director of Red Carnation Hotels, "and we can only deliver that if our staff are truly passionate about working with us to deliver that. This award is a terrific endorsement of the whole Red Carnation team - it's one thing to say the management takes workplace engagement seriously, but the real litmus test is what the staff themselves say."

This 'Michelin style', elite accreditation system recognises organisations by 'Star Status'. One star is acknowledged as first class, two stars as outstanding and three stars as extraordinary. Only 55 companies in the entire UK were awarded three stars, only 150 were awarded two stars, and only 209 were awarded one star, so on this measure few organisations do a better job of creating an exceptional workplace than Red Carnation Hotels.

The rating is arrived at through a rigorous process which relies heavily on feedback from the staff themselves to identify workplace performance and best practice against eight key factors.

"This is a great achievement," concludes Jonathan Raggett, "but we can do even better - it gives us something to aim for over the coming twelve months."