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Paul Venners awarded an OBE in the 2021 Queens New Year’s Honours List, in recognition for being outstanding in services to Hospital Mortuaries and Post Mortem Facilities, particularly during the COVID-19 response

LEEC shortlisted for the ‘Lloyds Bank National Business Awards

Paul Venners elected to become a member of ‘The Leaders Council for Great Britain and Northern Ireland’

Following on the trend from the previous year, LEEC receives a €1 million contract to design and install specialist equipment to the Anatomy Skills Centre, Leuven University, Belgium.

Paul Venners awarded a place in Lloyds Bank ‘One’s to watch list 2019’ compiled of the top 50 Most Ambitious Business Leaders”

LEEC recognised by the London Stock Exchange Group’s, 1000 Companies to inspire Britain in 2018. A report celebrating the fastest growing dynamic companies in the UK

LEEC handover a state of the art, fully custom design Mortuary to Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong. Extensive and technically challenging, the project represented LEEC’s ability to internationally work on and deliver a large project in excess of £1 million  

LEEC awarded a place on the Sunday Times Newspaper: Export Track 100 which ranks UK SME Business’ with the fastest growing export sales.

LEEC awarded “The Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade in 2016 for increasing sales by 60%, over the previous three years, with the percentage of sales increasing over the same period to 26% of total sales.

A period of rapid growth ensued, which allowed Paul the scope to become the 100% shareholder. In May 2014 the remaining interest of Octopus Investments was bought out, meaning that the company and 100% of the assets were now wholly owned.

In 2010 at the age of 61, Paul, with the assistance of Octopus Ventures and Lloyds TSB conducted a £4.4 million management buy-out

From well-established roots in the UK and, following a difficult 3 year period of purchasing and restructuring the company, LEEC focussed on developing opportunities for international growth.

After extensive travel to explore possibilities, a network of distributors was developed worldwide who would work closely with the company to champion the brand and its products.

Reinvestment into the Laboratory range was made which reinvigorated the line and introduced several first to market features.

In 2007, Emils Gailis sadly passed away and following a period of managing his estate, a board of Trustees appointed Paul as Managing Director of LEEC.

In 1991 Paul contributed to the development of NHS Hospital Building Note 20 (Facilities for Mortuary and Post Mortem Room Services). Still in use today, HBN20 is a best practice design guide for any renovation/new Mortuary development.

In the mid-1980s the company diversified and with it, a growing team welcomed Paul Venners, who joined LEEC in 1988, at the age of 39. A former building surveyor, and at the time of his move to LEEC an NHS Director of Estates and Corporate Planning. Paul was tasked to develop the pathology side of the business, which was in its earliest infancy supplying Mortuary equipment to UK Hospitals

LEEC would continue to be a leading manufacturer of laboratory equipment, while quickly growing a reputation for not only equipment supply but also facility design. An emphasis was placed on maximising floor space while reducing the overall footprint of the building, reducing construction costs, and most importantly, ensuring that efficient workflows were created and creating a clean and clinical environment that promotes health and safety for end-users and dignity to the deceased.

The company was officially incorporated on the 5^th November 1979 as LEEC Ltd.

General Electric Repair was founded in 1953 by Mr Emils Gailis, a Latvian born national, who moved to the UK and started a small business using his electrical engineering knowledge to repair household electrical items. One day he was asked by the now-closed General Hospital Nottingham if he could design an electrically controlled Incubator to replace their existing water-jacketed system. Emils designed and built a C02 Incubator, which for the time, was very innovative and opened the door to a completely new business, leading to his designs cornering the C02 Incubator market.

GER became Laboratory, Electrical, Engineering Company in the same year and, would spend the next twenty-plus years, developing and manufacturing a wide range of equipment, all based around heating technology which would enable the company to be one of the leading laboratory equipment manufacturers in the UK.