Brightstar Financial has been awarded the Investors in People (IIP) Gold Employer of the Year crown.

It beat more than 300 companies from 29 countries across the globe.  Brightstar won from the top 7% of all IIP certified businesses in the world.

The IIP awards celebrate the best people management practices amongst IIP accredited businesses and only six businesses made the final short list.

Brightstar was recognised as an ‘exemplar company’ in 2015 by the awards programme due to its previous gold and bronze awards and this news comes eight months after it was awarded its IIP Gold Standard.

A spokesperson at IIP said: “Everyone at Brightstar Financial Limited is rightfully, incredibly proud of achieving this award as they have beaten off very tough competition, not only in the UK, but from across the Investors in People global community. The level of this achievement cannot be underestimated.  It places Brightstar as one of the top companies in the world to work for.

“Just 16% of UK employers are currently accredited with IIP and less than 5% achieve the Gold accreditation, so winning the Gold Employer of the Year is a real testament to the whole team at Brightstar which continues to excel.”

Clare Jupp (pictured), director of people development at Brightstar, said: “One of our core objectives is to retain existing high quality staff and challenge teams and individuals to perform to their optimum. It is therefore fantastic that our continued hard work and success has been recognised by the IIP awards just months after receiving our Gold Standard which has only been awarded to 1043 companies in the UK.”