At Optimas International, our people are at the heart of everything we do. Our Awards recognition programme celebrates colleagues who go above and beyond, embodying our values and making a meaningful contribution to our teams, customers and the wider business.
This quarter, we’re delighted to recognise three THREAD Award winners for consistently demonstrating our core values of Teamwork, Honesty, Respect, Excellence, Accountability and Drive. We’re also celebrating our Sustainability Award winner for their commitment to sustainability, and our Continuous Improvement Award winner for championing positive change and helping us continually improve the way we work.
Congratulations to this quarter’s winners. Thank you for your dedication, commitment and the positive impact you make across our business every day.
THREAD Award
Ed Barrett
Head of Financial Accounting – Gloucester, UK
Nomination Reasons:
Demonstrates strong ownership, drive, and determination, particularly when working through important business priorities.
Led a critical, time-sensitive project with ownership and determination, working closely with internal stakeholders to gather critical information, resolve queries and close knowledge gaps.
Delivered a complex project to a tight deadline and played a vital behind-the-scenes role in a highly time-sensitive transition, alongside his day-to-day work.
THREAD Award
Judit Sasko-Varju
Accounts Payable Associate – Gloucester, UK
Nomination Reasons:
Demonstrated strong teamwork and championed process improvements, introducing automation that enhanced accuracy and reduced processes, saving up to two hours per week, per region.
Takes real pride in her work and approaches every task with care, patience and determination. Always demonstrates teamwork, professionalism, and genuine willingness to help make a real difference to those around her.
THREAD Award
Lewis Witcomb
Transport Team Leader – Gloucester, UK
Nomination Reasons:
Stays calm and focused no matter how tight the deadline or how complex the challenge.
When an urgent shipment needed to move at short notice, he made it happen – showing outstanding commitment and responsiveness.
Consistently pulling out all the stops to help our Supply Chain Team succeed. His positive, can-do attitude makes him an invaluable asset to the team.
Continuous Improvement Award
Dan Talbot
Supply Chain Systems and Data Manager – Gloucester, UK
Nomination Reasons:
Outstanding champion of continuous improvement, driving system and process change with expertise and optimism.
Played a key role in a major supply chain project, where he ran the analysis, shared insights and supported cross-functional decision-making while keeping up momentum high, helping to deliver a project that will have a lasting positive impact on our business.
Sustainability Award
Ewan Perry
Marketing Executive – Gloucester, UK
Nomination Reasons:
Went above and beyond to support our electric HGV trial, joining the driver on an 8-hour night shift, starting at 2 am, and captured valuable video and B-roll content to help bring our sustainability story to life.
His first-hand account of what the shift actually looked like is helping articulate the trial’s practical, on-the-ground impact and will make a real difference to how we share our sustainability journey.
