ML Electronics managing director Mike Lloyd.

WHITEPARISH companies M L Electronics and Lascar Electronics have won through to the final of the Wiltshire Business of the Year Awards 2005.

The pair two of only 15 finalists have been chosen from 200 starters.

M L Electronics, which specialises in electronic product development and manufacture, is a finalist in two categories the Virgin Mobile Best Business Culture Award and the Dyson Award for Engineering.

Lascar, which has bases in Hong Kong and the United States as well as White-parish, is a finalist in the Dyson Award for Engineering.

The awards ceremony, which takes place tomorrow night at the De Vere Hotel in Swindon, is hosted by Newsquest Wiltshire. The Newsquest empire includes the Salisbury Journal.

Mike Lloyd, managing director of M L Electronics, which has 17 staff and last year received the Investors in People accreditation, said: "To be recognised within our county for our engineering capabilities and for having a great business culture means a great deal to us, as these are core to our business.

"MLE is all about the people who provide the service to our clients, and if our people are happy in a fantastic working environment, then we know we will be delivering the best possible results to our clients."

Glynis Currie, director of Lascar Electronics, which has been in Whiteparish for 25 years and employs 30 people there, said everyone at the company was very pleased to have been shortlisted for the engineering award.

"We are principally a design house for electronic instruments," she explained.

"We are extremely busy at the moment and are expanding."

* Young businesspeople in Wiltshire, Hampshire and Dorset can now enter the contest to find the Shell Livewire Young Entrepreneur for 2006.

Launched last week, the competition, which picks regional winners to go on to the national final in London in June, offers a top prize of £10,000.

James Smith, chairman of Shell UK, said: "Helping young people to start their own businesses is important for the continued growth of a diverse, successful economy, and we are proud to have supported this programme for 24 years and to have helped do just that."

The awards are open to entrepreneurs aged 16-30, whose businesses will have been trading for between three and 18 months on March 31, 2006.

Entries must be submitted by March 31 and application forms can be found through the link below.

11:09am Thursday 23rd February 2006

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