Golden Teddy Award introduced to Jane Smith – Toy World Journal | The enterprise journal with a ardour for toysToy World Journal

This award marks the primary time that somebody who hasn’t primarily labored in Toys has obtained a Golden Teddy.

On Wednesday 4th September, BTHA Council member and head of the BTHA Toy Security Advisory Service, Jerry Burnie OBE, introduced a Golden Teddy Award to Jane Smith in Milton Keynes.

Jane has retired as a buying and selling requirements officer at Milton Keynes Buying and selling Requirements, however was introduced with this particular award within the firm of her former colleagues on the Milton Keynes Council places of work.

This award marks the primary time that somebody who hasn’t primarily labored in Toys has obtained a Golden Teddy and is further particular in that regard. Throughout Jane’s relatively distinctive and lengthy profession, in numerous roles with retailers and with buying and selling requirements, she has, amongst many different issues, taken the time to deal considerately with suppliers, all the time given a listening ear to progressive approaches and been instrumental in forging an ideal Major Authority partnership with the BTHA itself.

BTHA Golden Teddy Awards are introduced to individuals who have served the business for greater than 15 years and awards recognise individuals with extraordinary skills, and who’ve gone over and above expectations. Importantly, recipients are the business’s genuinely good individuals who possess a excessive diploma of niceness, honesty and integrity.

In his award speech, Jerry relayed the view of the proposers that Jane was an ideal individual to be honoured with this award and, although she didn’t solely cope with toys, she has carried out an enormous quantity with toys. Not solely is she “a genuinely beautiful individual to cope with”, she was “all the time trustworthy, open to new concepts and really educated in her discipline … a real unsung hero and a really worthy winner of a BTHA Golden Teddy award”.