Stretford

LEE Yates, corporate sales manager at Swansway Honda Manchester in Stretford, is a genuine hat-trick hero.

He has picked up the Honda UK corporate manager of the year award for the third successive year.

Lee has been at Swansway Honda Manchester for five years and is known for his work ethic and sense of humour.

A delighted Lee said: “Perhaps my hard work ethic comes from when I left school at 16, I got a job as a baker in Manchester and I worked there for five years, getting up at 4am in the morning and cycling an eighteen mile round trip.

"After that experience, everything else seemed a breeze.

“That said, my role at Swansway is very challenging. Honda UK give us some aggressive targets to hit each year, but, with the help and support of the whole team, we all work towards making those targets achievable.”

David Smyth, Swansway group director, said: “Lee is a real Swansway person. He works immensely hard to produce the results he does, at the same time embodying the Swansway caring, honest and proud values, with a big dose of fun thrown in for good measure. Well done Lee, another richly deserved award.”