AS Christmas approaches, there is one Worcester company hoping for lots of presents from Santa as a reward for being so good this year!

Electricity supplier BizzEnergy has won a cache of awards during 2002.

The most recent accolade was the Systems Investment of the Year Award, collected at the Utility Industry Achievement Awards.

Sponsored by Syntegra, and formerly known as the e-commerce award, the category celebrates utilities companies that have invested in systems in a measurably successful way.

BizzEnergy, which is based on Berkeley Business Park, in Warndon, was the only company across all categories to retain its title for the second year in a row and is gaining a reputation as a leading-edge business electricity retailer.

Susanne Chambers, BizzEnergy's director of marketing, who collected the award from TV presenter Jonathan Ross, said the company was delighted to win the award for the second year in a row.

"It has been an exceptional year of growth for the business and receiving an independent accolade like this from the industry makes the hard work seem very worthwhile," she said.

Reliable

BizzEnergy's rationale is built on being an online, hi-tech business and its systems have to be 100 per cent reliable.

Award judges felt the company's systems investment had helped customers and the company's bottom line in equal measure.

They said in their comments: "BizzEnergy set out to base its business on technology and has clearly demonstrated a range of measured benefits directly resulting from technology investment."

BizzEnergy was also runner up in the IT Initiative of the Year Award and placed third in the Business Innovation Award.

Other awards collected by the company this year include runner-up in the Herefordshire & Worcestershire Business Festival awards, in March, for New Business Start Up. The company was a finalist for the Business of the Year award at the festival.

It has also been a finalist in the e-Commerce awards, the National Customer Service Awards, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) Awards and the National Business Awards.

In October BizzEnergy swept the board at the prestigious Sage Business Awards, scoring a hat trick of wins including Fastest Growing Business, Best Growth Through Technology and Best Business Leader.