September 18, 2025
Verplas Celebrates Triple Win at UK Employee Experience Awards 2025
Manufacturing firm Verplas has scooped three awards at the UK Employee Experience Awards 2025, winning gold in both Best Company Culture and Team of the Year categories, and bronze in the Best Use of Employee Insight & Feedback category.
The awards mark a major milestone for the manufacturing business, which has been on a culture journey over the past several years. Managing Director Derren Gittins recalled how far the company has come:
“It was a very toxic culture going back several years, and we’ve really been driving forward, doing really well. In the last 12 months, we really gelled, and we now have teams that are self-directing. We don’t have team leaders, we’ve a night shift without any team management. The team look after an area, we don’t have management in health and safety. It’s all team-driven, and the result tells—record profits. I’m just so proud of everybody.”
This shift to self-directed teams has been key to Verplas’ recent progress, allowing employees to take full ownership of areas that would traditionally be managed from the top down.
Looking ahead, Gittins believes the company is in a strong position to grow. He said: “I think now we have that spaceship that’s full of fuel, that’s ready to really take off. I think that people now feel that they can drive the destiny of the business, they can make decisions. They run their own departments. We just feed it in now, what we’re trying to achieve, and they deliver.”
See the full list of winners here.
