Allpark is growing with not only an eye for the UK market but outstanding success in European and international markets too.

A previous overall Gravesham winner of these awards in 2011, the company – with its 28-strong workforce – designs, supplies and manufactures a wide variety of steel traffic management, street furniture and cycle parking products. In addition there is a full e-commerce store and civil engineering department working in synergy with the core business.

Now in its eighth trading year, Allpark, which is in May Avenue, Gravesend, is proud as a British manufacturer to have landed contracts as a primary provider of cycle parking products for SNCF on French Railways, delivering projects to such cities as Paris, Aix-En-Provence, Rouen, Rennes and Marseilles. It also exclusively supplies Luxembourg, Belgium and Switzerland.

The ongoing agreements with the company will provide the Paris Metro system with more than 1,200 cycle parking positions by May 2015 complete with shelters and canopies to blend in with the existing Parisian architecture.

The Allpark brand has even reached as far afield as Saudi Arabia where it has not only supplied products, but carried out design, manufacture and installation on the world’s largest construction site.

The King Abdullah Financial District is one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. With more than 50 skyscrapers being constructed over 500 acres, it has sky and monorails connecting every building to provide a fully self-contained area for business, education, healthcare and residential.

Allpark has so far supplied more than 3,000 cycle parking spaces and many more are expected over the coming years as it has become the benchmark for quality with the Saudi Binladin Group.

As a result of this success, the company has now put in place trade agreements to cover the provision of cycle parking and traffic management products in Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, UAE, Dubai and Qatar.

Commercial director Adam Barlow said: “We invest heavily in our staff at all levels.

“The training matrix of our staff is constantly growing and improving enabling them to take on more responsibility and different roles.

“With a very low turnover of staff and long-term goals agreed, we are confident of maintaining our team for years to come.

“Investing in staff carries into a heavily supported apprenticeship scheme and we are currently employing one former and three current apprentices.

“One of our apprentices, Adam Calver, was the winner of the KEIBA Apprentice of the Year Award and we are extremely proud. He shows that what you put into a scheme you really do get out of it, from the employer and employee perspective.”

Allpark is one of the entrants in the Dartford and Gravesham Business Awards. This year’s award sponsors are Dartford council, Gravesham council, Barnes Roffe, Kent Business School (University of Kent), the KM Group (Dartford Messenger and Gravesend Messenger), Lloyds Bank, Thomson Snell and Passmore, Edinburgh House and the University of Greenwich.

Entries have now closed. The winner will be announced soon.