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Group Chief Executive: Allen Gibbons CEO: Richard Stoppard Winners’ Co-ordinator: Anne Smith Production: Ian Blaza Editorial: Emma Dahm, Helen Milbank and Darren Calpin Marketing: Emma Calland and Catherine Williams Finance: Mandy Pratley The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise Magazine would like to thank The Queen’s Awards Office, all of the 2019 Award winners, who have kindly given their assistance in the preparation of this magazine.

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WELCOME To the publication showcasing the winners of the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise 2019

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Letters of acknowledgement for the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise

International Trade category award winners

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About the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise

Innovation category award winners

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A breakdown of Queen’s Awards winners

Sustainable Development category award winners

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The benefits of winning an award

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Awards reception for 2018 winners

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PRESENTATIONS & CELEBRATIONS IMAGES

The Queen’s Awards magazine is the only publication working together with The Queen’s Awards Office to publicise and promote the Awards themselves and The Queen’s Awards Winners each year. We welcome submissions of Winners presentation photographs throughout the year for publication in the subsequent edition, and on our website www.queensawardsmagazine.com. These should be emailed to ian.blaza@queensawardsmagazine.com together with a suitable caption describing the event, and clearly naming the people pictured. A press release produced at the time would also normally be suitable guidance for captioning. Please ensure that all images supplied respect the rights and wishes of the copyright holder, especially if these were taken by independent photographers or supplied to you by news media.

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We are delighted to offer our congratulations to all the 2019 Queen’s Awards winners, some of whom have attained the achievement for the first time and others who now hold multiple awards.

You have demonstrated excellence in international trade, innovation, sustainable development and promoting social mobility and the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise continue to constitute the highest honour to be bestowed on a UK company. Businesses of today are not only satisfying customers globally but doing so with a firm eye on environmental impact by finding new routes to sustainable practices.

And creating better futures for employees through the promotion of social mobility opportunities and sustainable business is at the heart of so many of the companies who have won awards this year; innovative thinking and technology have helped to make this a reality and pushing the boundaries has led to smarter business practice.

Any business carrying the Queen’s Awards logo receives a warm welcome internationally and the relevance of the awards has never been clearer. It has been an exceptional year in terms of breadth and diversity of the companies who entered and we look forward to watching their progress over the coming years.

We are delighted to feature interviews with members of the Queen’s Awards judging panel in the magazine for the first time and their insight, wisdom and enthusiasm makes this a mustread for award winners of the future and present alike!

We wish the winners continued success in 2019 and beyond.

Richard Stoppard Chief Executive Officer Nexus Business Media Limited

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I would like to offer our sincere congratulations to all winners of The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise.

The UK’s business community contributes immensely to not just to the wellbeing of the economy, but to society as well. This contribution should not go unrecognised.

British firms, and the directors who run them, are renowned the world over for the standards they set, helping to burnish our country’s reputation overseas. Indeed, our companies are often found at the very cutting edge in terms innovation, international trade, sustainable development, and social mobility, making the Queen’s Award winners all the more praiseworthy.

Recipients of the Awards include some of the country’s most exciting companies, and provide much optimism for the future of UK enterprise. That they have achieved what they have against a backdrop of considerable uncertainty only accentuates the creativity, skill, and sheer hard work put in throughout the past few years.

In some regards, we are entering a particularly challenging moment for firms big and small. Change is pervasive, and not just in the political sphere. Rapid technological advances and emerging societal trends together mean that business as usual is simply not an option.

This year’s winners have shown a willingness to grapple with these issues and more, navigating the obstacles in their path to find a route to prosperity. In many respects they have gone further than simply coping with these challenges, but have actively embraced the opportunities they bring.

We hope the winners and British business more widely continue to go from strength to strength in the years ahead.

Charlotte Valeur Chair of the Institute of Directors

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The Queen’s Awards FOR ENTERPRISE The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are considered the UK’s most prestigious business awards, designed to acknowledge and encourage outstanding achievements demonstrated by UK businesses.

Instituted by Royal Warrant in 1965 and first awarded in 1966, their format has evolved to now encompass four categories: International Trade, Innovation, Sustainable Development and Promoting Opportunity (through social mobility).

In the past, individuals have been recognised within the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise but, as of 2017, this individual award was rested.

Her Majesty The Queen makes the awards on the advice of the Prime Minister, who is assisted by an advisory committee including representatives of Government, industry and commerce, and the trade unions. The award winners are announced annually on April 21, The Queen’s birthday.

The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are free to enter and you may apply for more than one award. Organisations of any size operating regularly as a business unit in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man and which meet the criteria may enter. The awards are made to businesses as a whole rather than to individuals.

Applicants that are unsuccessful receive feedback about their strengths and are offered guidance about how to improve their entry for future. Presentation ceremonies are conducted at each winner’s premises, usually by the Lord-Lieutenant of the County, who is the designated representative of Her Majesty The Queen.

The awards consist of a Grant of Appointment and a commemorative crystal bowl.

Successful organisations may fly the Queen’s Award

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flag at their principal premises and are entitled to use the emblem on marketing materials – such as on packaging, advertisements, stationery and website.

This information was correct at the time of going to press. For the latest information visit www.gov.uk/ queens-awards-for-enterprise

THE QUEEN’S AWARDS FOR ENTERPRISE: ELIGIBILITY To apply for the Queen’s Award for Enterprise your organisation must meet the following minimum criteria: l Be based in the UK (including the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man); l File its Company Tax Returns with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC); l Be a self-contained enterprise that markets its own products or services and is under its own management; l Have at least two full-time UK employees or part-time equivalents; and l Demonstrate strong corporate social responsibility.

Your organisation may be business or non-profit. Each award has additional entry criteria, which can be found at the start of each relevant section in this magazine as well as on the website https://www.gov.uk/queensawards-for-enterprise/eligibility

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ABOUT THE AWARDS

Queen’s Awards’ winners 2019: a breakdown

STATISTICS 2019 Awards by category (Note: six companies have received multiple Awards)

l 129 for International Trade l 61 for Innovation l 6 for Sustainable Development l5 for Promoting Opportunity (through social mobility)

Entries for The Queen’s Awards come from all corners of the UK including the outlying islands. The companies’ activities, however, are international with many businesses exporting and negotiating with countless countries around the world.

Six businesses were double award winners, all in International Trade and Innovation, as follows: l Niftylift Ltd; l DriveWorks Ltd; l Ideal Boilers Ltd, l rFpro; l Snap-on UK Holdings; and l Markes International Limited;

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The graphic shows the distribution of these 2019 Award winners (companies that entered The Queen’s Awards in the period April - September 2019) across the United Kingdom.

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The benefits of winning...

A QUEEN’S AWARD FOR ENTERPRISE The motivations for companies entering the Queen’s Awards are as many as there are companies – each has its own reasons for doing so and the majority benefit from their success.

Even those companies who do not win an Award on their first attempt can find it a valuable experience, providing targets to achieve and an additional focus for which to optimise efforts in becoming one of the best UK companies in their field.

Entrants come from all around the United Kingdom – from city-based centres of commerce to the remotest of locations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands.

The majority of winning companies have below 250 employees, but there are also larger companies who have won. The minimum size of an eligible company is two fulltime employees.

Winners have confirmed the main reason they enter the Queen’s Awards is for the prestige it brings. Both at home and overseas, respect for a winning company is enhanced with this notable achievement. Winners find that being the company with a Queen’s Award among other competitors can often make the difference in gaining an introduction to new customers. A win is also a great promotional opportunity for publicity in local and national newspapers as well as international trade magazines, in print and online.

Although the online entry process naturally involves time spent supplying the data required, experience has shown that although some entrants expected the process to be difficult, few actually found this was the case. In fact the time taken to prepare the research for the entry varied mainly from a couple of days to a couple of weeks – but with some entrants completing the information in one day.

The time it takes will understandably vary according to the type of company and its products and how readily available the data is.

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It is inevitable that not all companies will succeed in gaining a Queen’s Award – that is of course the whole principle behind any award scheme. On average a quarter of those entering succeed in gaining a Queen’s Award – a good incentive!

Of course any award is only as good as the employees who have worked hard to achieve it and this recognition is a great morale-booster for companies. Each winning company is given a formal presentation by The Queen’s representative (normally the county’s Lord-Lieutenant) at the company premises or other suitable location, so the employees are able to enjoy the celebrations first hand – some examples of these presentations can be seen in later pages of this publication.

Having won their award, in the months and years that follow, companies have found the predicted outcome has been achieved, with the company’s perception being enhanced within the UK and overseas. Most companies found that the staff responded enthusiastically to the win and the majority of companies made good use of the kudos for their publicity and PR. When asked, existing winners of a Queen’s Award would recommend entering to other businesses.

Another promotional opportunity available to winners is the independently published The Queen’s Awards Magazine, which you are now reading, and its accompanying website.

As you can see, winners can choose to have an entry among the others in their category – in a magazine that is distributed to a prestigious mailing list of recipients both in the UK and internationally.

In a recent survey of winners the majority agreed that The Queen’s Awards Magazine and the website were rated either ‘Good’ or ‘Excellent’. We want to improve on that: please let us know what your expectations are for future reference!

Email your feedback to Anne Smith: Anne.Smith@ queensawardsmagazine.com

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MEET THE JUDGES Here we introduce a selection of judges from across the four Queen’s Awards categories

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JUDGE’S NAME

Sally Uren CATEGORY

Sustainable Development AREA OF INTEREST

Sustainable development

The Queen’s Awards is a high profile, instantly recognisable scheme, and is another way of signalling that sustainable development is a mainstream, not a niche, issue

Sally is Chief Executive at Forum for the Future, with overall responsibility for delivering Forum’s mission to accelerate a big shift towards a sustainable future by catalysing transformational change in global systems. This involves working with leading global organisations, such as Unilever and Kingfisher, foundations such as the C&A Foundation, and membership organisations, such as Sedex. This is both in one-to-one partnerships and as part of multi-stakeholder collaborations designed to address complex challenges in systems as diverse as food, energy, apparel and shipping. A key part of Sally’s role is inspiring and equipping people and organisations to deliver systemic change for sustainability through regularly speaking at international and national conferences and also writing for a range of publications, including the New Statesman, Huffington Post, Management Today and The Independent. Sally acts an independent advisor on advisory boards for several global businesses, including Kimberly Clark, Kingfisher and Burberry. In 2018 she was the independent Chair of DFID’s Business Partnership Fund, part of the Business Innovation Facility. In 2017 Sally received an OBE for services to sustainability in business.

What made you choose to be a judge for the Queen’s Awards?

The sustainable development agenda needs to be central to all businesses, big and small. The Queen’s Awards is a high profile, instantly recognisable scheme, and is another way of signalling that sustainable development is a mainstream, not a niche, issue.

Why do the Queen’s Awards matter to business?

Because they signal an independent mark of excellence for a business’s performance in a key area.

What do you enjoy most about being a QA judge?

As a judge we get to see how business, big and small, are working hard to reduce their social and environmental impacts, as well as deliver economic success. Such a diversity in approach is fascinating to understand, and the actual judging itself is an experience, given the diverse background of the judges, where I always learn something new.

What sparks your interest across Queen’s Award applicants this year?

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and services.

It's a struggle for a business to deliver one strategy, let alone two, so the sooner the sustainable development agenda drives the main business strategy, the sooner business will deliver the transformation needed to ensure sustainable development goals are met.

What’s your tip for a company that is thinking of applying for a Queen’s Award?

Don’t overthink the answers. Reference publically available information where you can. Actually answer the questions!

Describe the benefits of being a Queen’s Awards winner, as you see it In a world where we are drowning in data and comments, a Queen's Award cuts through a lot of noise and is a signal that you are serious, and good.

Describe a few features you believe make British businesses such a global success British business, in the main, is incredibly innovative, often the first to read changes in consumer attitudes and other macro-trends, and willing to have a go at problem solving. There’s an inherent tenacity in British businesses too, which means that failure is often a brilliant learning opportunity, and the cue to try something different. When it comes to sustainable development, business as usual just won’t deliver the scale and pace of change that we need to see, so the ability of British business to experiment, fail fast, try again, is critical. l

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MEET THE JUDGES Judges are increasingly looking to understand how each applicant is bringing a sustainable development lens into the very heart of its business, including sometimes adapting its business model

JUDGE’S NAME

Abyd Karmali OBE CATEGORY

Sustainable Development AREA OF INTEREST

Climate change and sustainable finance

Almost 30 years working on climate change, from multiple vantage points including techno-economic, policy, strategic and financial. Abyd spent 11 years in working in financial services at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, most recently as Climate Finance Executive, working on scaling up the investments into low-carbon climate-resilience opportunities across the investment and commercial bank. In the charity sector, Abyd is on the board of the business NGO The Climate Group, and the national committee of international development NGO, The Aga Khan Foundation (UK). Abyd has an MS in Technology & Policy from MIT.

What made you choose to be a judge for the Queen’s Awards?

I accepted the invitation because of my own focus over three decades on how the private sector can be a leader in sustainable development.

Why do the Queen’s Awards matter to business?

The Awards serve an important purpose in helping to increase awareness within business about the '2 degrees' target of the Paris Agreement on climate change and the 17 United Nations sustainable development goals. Further, the Awards can identify and reward UK companies that are aligning their businesses with ambitious environmental, social and economic performance indicators.

What do you enjoy most about being a QA judge?

Two aspects stand out. First, it is truly a privilege to be deliberating on the merits of applications with such an outstanding group of fellow judges, each of whom is thought leader on sustainability from the private sector, the think tank sector, academia or government. Second, it is wonderful to read about the journey each company is making to try to improve its sustainability performance and to help recognise those who can be described as leaders in whatever is their particular sector of the economy.

What sparks your interest across Queen’s Award applicants this year?

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and sizes. The diversity of companies interested in the Awards is a good reflection of their resonance across the British business community.

What’s your top tip for a company that is thinking of applying for a Queen’s Award?

In Sustainable Development, the baseline for performance is changing fast to adapt to new scientific realities. Good housekeeping along environmental, social and economic dimensions is now simply a prerequisite. Judges are increasingly looking to understand how each applicant is bringing a sustainable development lens into the very heart of its business, including sometimes adapting its business model.

Describe the benefits of being a Queen’s Awards winner, as you see it There is considerable prestige associated with being a Queen’s Award winner. This creates value for a company by strengthening the relationships between the company and its customers, owners, suppliers and broader stakeholders in the community.

Describe a few features you believe make British businesses such a global success British businesses have an enviable mix of talent in the workforce, creative ideas, and good access to capital, including from mature capital markets. Marrying all of these attributes to a set of values built on corporate social responsibility can help continue to position British companies on the global stage as leaders in sustainability and responsible growth. l

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JUDGE’S NAME

Simone Roche MBE

This year in particular, the diversity of sectors and pure ambition of the organisations was a delight to read

Simone Roche, CEO and founder of Northern Power Women, launched the campaign out of a passion to connect and engage with people about gender equality. Simone started her career in roles with the Royal Navy, Aintree Racecourse, Blackpool Pleasure Beach, the Arena Convention Centre in Liverpool and the Olympics.

When Simone became the director for a campaign supporting women in the hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism industry she was asked to be a champion for the Government Equalities Office – gender equality then became her passion. Simone was awarded an MBE in the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to gender equality in the north of England.

What made you choose to be a judge for the Queen’s Awards?

It was a very easy decision to make. The Queen’s Awards carry a level of prestige and elevation for those who win. It provides a fantastic platform on which great British industry can launch and thrive on.

Why do the Queen’s Awards matter to business?

The Awards are an outstanding way for many small, medium and large businesses to become recognised in their particular niche. I personally really like the way the Queen’s Awards act as a springboard platform for businesses to gain further connections, networks and business.

What do you enjoy most about being a QA judge?

I love seeing the calibre of entrants and feel privileged to be in the position of influence to award those who really are outstanding.

What sparks your interest across Queen’s Award applicants this year?

The ingenuity, tenacity and brilliance of the entrants. This year in particular, the diversity of sectors and pure ambition of the organisations was a delight to read.

What’s your tip for a company that is thinking of applying for a Queen’s Award?

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Don’t just think about it, do it. The results speak for themselves. To be recognised by these awards makes you stronger, more resilient, more commercial and even more competitive to succeed. This Is great for any business.

Describe the benefits of being a Queen’s Awards winner, as you see it The benefits are many. Being a winner means you remain endorsed for 5 years, which is longer than many other awards. Winners are able to tap into many contacts and networks to further leverage the business. It also encourages you to remain at the top of the class, striving for more and doing things better. Not least, an award serves as a reminder of the talented individuals and businesses that are British.

Describe a few features you believe make British businesses such a global success n Innovation. British businesses have been pioneers of innovation, new technologies, ways of working and products. nM ulticulturalism. British businesses have always embraced the value of diversity within their workforces, which in turn, helps them operate on a global platform. n Industriousness. This is being hard working, showing grit and a determination to succeed, as well as dealing with knockbacks and going back again. l

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MEET THE JUDGES JUDGE’S NAME

Jan Ward

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International Trade AREA OF INTEREST

Manufacturing

Jan is a mechanical engineer with more than 30 years experience in metals manufacturing and distribution. She worked at board level for specialty metals producers and distributors and has lived and worked in US, Europe and Middle East. Jan is founder of Corrotherm International Ltd, a company specialising in high alloy metals for use in oil, gas and petrochemical power and desalination industries. She grew the company from a one-woman start to having offices in 10 countries. Jan is also advisor and non-executive director to a number of manufacturing companies and government departments and director of the Saudi British Joint Business Council and UAE UK Business Council, and director of the Energy Industries Council. Nat West Everywoman Award winner, IoD London and South East Global Director of the year. Awarded a CBE for services to business and honorary doctorate of engineering.

What made you choose to be a judge for the Queen’s Awards?

I was honoured to be asked to be a Queen's Award judge as I have a lifelong enthusiasm for international trade and the development and promotion of UK companies growing their international sales. Growing international trade is a vital part of the UK’s economic future.

Why do the Queen’s Awards matter to business?

Businesses large and small hold the Queen's Award in the highest regard. The Awards process is extremely robust and gaining an award demonstrates the quality and success a company has achieved. Every company would like to be able to display the Queen's Award logo, which brings value and prestige to any organisation.

What do you enjoy most about being a QA judge?

The most enjoyable part of the judging process is reading each applicant's story and understanding what they do and how they have achieved their success. The lively discussions on the judging panel sessions are extremely interesting and it is very satisfying to be able to make an award when a company has clearly achieved the judging criteria.

What sparks your interest across Queen’s Award applicants this year?

I was interested this year to see companies applying from both a wider range of sectors and also a very wide range of company sizes. There are some incredibly adventurous and ambitious SMEs exploring new markets

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across the globe, driven by their early export success. The range of products and services on offer and the level of innovation was amazing.

What’s your tip for a company that is thinking of applying for a Queen’s Award?

The most important thing is to ANSWER THE QUESTION. We often find that a company is clearly successful, but has not comprehensively answered the question. It's vital to give as much hard information as is possible within the limits of the word count, so being succinct and incisive is key.

Describe the benefits of being a Queen’s Awards winner, as you see it Winning a Queen's Award is the highest accolade for business. It is an acknowledgement of a company’s financial and strategic success and the high quality of its corporate and social responsibility. The Award brings extremely valuable PR exposure for customers and suppliers and makes the company an attractive organisation to deal with. In addition it enables companies to attract the best talent.

Describe a few features you believe make British businesses such a global success International British business success is based on its global world view, which sees the whole world as its customer, and does not confine itself to the domestic market. Our extremely strong SME sector is highly entrepreneurial and innovative. This, coupled with an adventurous spirit, makes British business a global success. l

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Lopa Patel MBE CATEGORY

Innovation AREA OF INTEREST

Technology

We need fresh ideas to tackle some of the global challenges we face and it is exciting to see British companies at the forefront of development of solutions to these challenges

Lopa is a digital entrepreneur with significant experience of creating start-ups and transforming businesses through technology. The founder of two ventures in online media and a data-driven marketing consultancy, she is also the founder and CEO of equality and inclusion think-tank Diversity UK; a trustee of the Science Museum Group and a non-executive director of the Intellectual Property Office steering board. Lopa is an ambassador for entrepreneurship, innovation and technology and has been recognised with accolades including an MBE for services to the creative industries; Queen’s Award for Enterprise promotion, and an honorary doctorate awarded by The Open University, in recognition of her efforts to promote diversity and inclusion in science and technology.

What made you choose to be a judge for the Queen’s Awards?

I was delighted to be asked to be a judge for the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise because I believe that Britain is one of the most creative and innovative places in the world. The UK is ranked number 9 in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business 2018 report and number 4 in the Global Entrepreneurship Index 2018. These indicators are important because entrepreneurial ecosystems support innovative, productive and rapidly growing new ventures. For innovative firms to prosper, such firms need skilled employees, access to technology and finance, well-functioning infrastructure, advice and support, business premises and a supportive regulatory framework. All these need to work in sync to enable entrepreneurs to have confidence in their innovative ideas and projects.

As I have enjoyed the the benefits of the UK’s entrepreneurial ecosystem in creating three business ventures, I have been spurred on to encourage others into entrepreneurship. The new era of technological advances has reduced barriers to entry for startups and I feel a lot people can benefit by developing the secret ideas they harbour in their minds.

We need fresh ideas to tackle some of the global challenges we face and it is exciting to see British companies at the forefront of development of solutions to these challenges.

Why do the Queen’s Awards matter to business?

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the frustrations they have overcome, the peaks they have conquered and the troughs they have swum through. The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are a unique opportunity to recognise the collective efforts of employees, suppliers, partners and customers.

Attaining a Queen’s Award is important in establishing a company’s credibility domestically and in international markets and the award validates customers’ faith and loyalty in the products and services they purchase.

What do you enjoy most about being a QA judge?

Being a judge gives me an unrivalled opportunity to meet like-minded individuals and learn about some of the most amazing, innovative businesses in Britain. In automotive terms it gives me opportunity to look under the bonnet at Britain’s engine for economy growth.

What sparks your interest across Queen’s Award applicants this year?

I was fascinated by the problem that each innovation was trying to solve; from the smallest change to improve productivity or efficiency to the most unique idea for completely changing how a product functions or a service is delivered. We are currently living in a disruptive era, where a small startup company with an innovative idea can change the way the entire sector works. Similarly, large organisations are disrupting themselves; using novel approaches to revolutionise how they deliver their goods and services. The pace of change has certainly quickened.

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MEET THE JUDGES

For innovative firms to prosper, such firms need skilled employees, access to technology and finance, wellfunctioning infrastructure, advice and support, business premises and a supportive regulatory framework

What’s your tip for a company that is thinking of applying for a Queen’s Award?

My top tip would be to first consider the narrative about your innovation.

What problem have been trying to solve? How have you solved it? What is novel and unique about this solution? What has been the impact of the innovation; in capital terms as well as in human terms? Applicants are often loathe to talk about the emotional impact of the innovation, but, if you have saved lives or made people happier, surely that is the best

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validation one can have.

I would build the narrative from the ground up; add in facts and figures in support of the application and then I would ask someone else to read it to see if it makes sense in plain English. They will also help spot key missing elements of your QA application.

Then leave it for a few days and go back to add in extras like customer testimonials, analytics, press clippings, videos and so on. And don’t leave it to the last minute to start the application process.

Describe the benefits of being a Queen’s Awards winner, as you see it The validation it gives your current and potential customers and clients.

It provides additional security to international customers to know that your company is a Queen’s Award winner and it imbues a great sense of pride to your business and employees, particularly if you mark the occasion with a party so that everyone can all celebrate! The hidden benefits are that it makes everyone in your business set themselves a higher standard to meet and imparts a new level of confidence that your business is really a great company to work within.

Describe a few features you believe make British businesses such a global success The British mindset is to provide the best solutions to the world’s most difficult problems. Whatever the industry, the approach is always one of taking the path less trodden; trying to create something new and innovative rather than replicating what has been done by others. And, of course, we simply love to make things! l

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Lesley Batchelor OBE CATEGORY

International Trade AREA OF INTEREST

International trade

Global success is linked to those who understand the cultures they are working with and how to differentiate their offering to suit new conditions and needs

Lesley Batchelor OBE is a champion of UK exporters, with a powerful track record in enhancing the export performance of hundreds of businesses. From a blue-chip background, she now works as Director General of the Institute of Export (IOE), an education foundation providing qualifications and support for business for over 80 years. Lesley is active on the APPG advisory panels on trade and investment and manufacturing, she has given evidence to the House of Lords Select Committees on Government support for SMEs. Lesley is often sought out for comment on Brexit and international trade issues and writes thought leadership pieces for many journals.

What made you choose to be a judge for the Queen’s Awards?

really is no limit to the businesses that would benefit from these Awards.

It was an offer I couldn’t refuse – the Institute of Export & International Trade has been helping to promote the awards for a number of years and I was asked to join the judging panel. It is so inspiring, reading the entries and seeing how companies manage to enter new markets is just brilliant.

What’s your top tip for a company that is thinking of applying for a Queen’s Award?

Why do the Queen’s Awards matter to business?

These awards are recognition of a company’s efforts in international trade, often in new markets. Winners demonstrate to their contemporaries in the UK that a company is world class, and the Awards provide a badge of honour when trading across the world. The prestige and influence that comes with being given a Queen’s Award is a mark of authority providing confidence in the markets. New customers and old hold the awards in high esteem.

What do you enjoy most about being a QA judge?

Reading the entries is very rewarding and the IOE&IT hosts a gala dinner each year for the winners – meeting the businesses and enjoying their success is also a tremendous inspiration.

What sparks your interest across Queen’s Award applicants this year?

The international Trade category is seeing more smaller businesses enter and this means that the value of the award is reaching a wider audience.

It also means the support the Queen’s Award offers is being recognised.

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Don’t take anything for granted. Tell us what your strategy is, explain why you chose certain markets and any modifications you made to your business for the better after your export experience. The more you share the easier it is for us to judge.

Describe the benefits of being a Queen’s Awards winner, as you see it The Queen is the best-known and loved figurehead around the world and these awards provide an endorsement of your business through the support of your monarch. You couldn’t be more highly recommended.

Describe a few features you believe make british businesses such a global success The most successful UK businesses are those that listen and learn from their customers. Global success is linked to those who understand the cultures they are working with and how to differentiate their offering to suit new conditions and needs. Research is key to getting it right first time.

Anything else you’d like to add…

Working with businesses who trade internationally is a great honour and I’d encourage anyone who knows any business owner who isn’t involved to tell them how much they would gain from the experience. Just do it! l

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Will Tyler

The successful applicants go so far beyond expectations you feel genuinely proud to be associated with their activities through the award

CATEGORY

Sustainable Development AREA OF INTEREST

Small business inclusion in the awards

As Chief Executive, Will has more than 30 years’ experience at the forefront of London and the UK’s display and large format digital printing industry, Octink. The CommunityMark company has over 100 staff and commands an annual turnover in the region of £16 million. The early learning in terms of social priorities and environmental protection remain at the core of the company’s activities. Will is the chair of ‘Spark!’ the Hounslow Education Business Partnership, sits as a member of the Council for the London Chamber of Commerce, and regularly engages in public speaking opportunities to business forums.

Will is married with two daughters.

What made you choose to be a judge for the Queen’s Awards?

Octink was one of the early adopters of the CommunityMark through BITC and, at the time, the smallest company involved. I accepted the position in the belief that the award needed a broader representation in the small and medium enterprise sector.

Why do the Queen’s Awards matter to business?

The Queen’s Award is one of the most prestigious business awards – they truly recognise the vanguards of industry throughout the categories.

The link to the Queen gives a strength and gravitas to the award. This is particularly well received across the Middle East.

What do you enjoy most about being a QA judge?

The diversity of applications is always a big draw. In the Sustainable Development category, the successful applicants go so far beyond expectations you feel genuinely proud to be associated with their activities through the award.

What sparks your interest across Queen’s Award applicants this year?

Each year delivers a big surprise in terms of the creativity of the approach. Often you see small initiatives whether through design, recycling or community engagement that deliver a huge benefit to both the company and the communities allied to them.

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What’s your tip for a company that is thinking of applying for a Queen’s Award?

Often, a company will be doing things intuitively that warrant a successful application. This is about where you see your key differentiation or something that you feel has outperformed the competition.

The award is in place to recognise those efforts and, as such, there really is every reason for you to enter.

Describe the benefits of being a Queen’s Awards winner, as you see it As a winner of such a well-regarded reward there are a multitude of opportunities through both marketing and networking to be gained.

The marketing element should give a good springboard to those companies that may be looking abroad.

I also believe that the Queen’s Awards sit as a mark of excellence alongside the more traditional quality standard accreditations.

Describe a few features you believe make British businesses such a global success Britain still represents a trusted partner in most of the world. The basis of our laws, alongside the standards we hold our companies to, gives comfort to trading partners across the world. British innovation remains world leading with British companies adding achievements every year. l

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Dr Vicky Kell CATEGORY

Innovation AREA OF INTEREST

Innovation – business and economic development

The broad range of applicants, in terms of sector and size, never ceases to impress me

Director of Invest NI’s Innovation, Research and Development division. Vicky has significant experience in both the private and public sectors, developing expertise in innovation, technology and international commercialisation.

Passionate about Northern Ireland, her aim is to facilitate the economic development of NI PLC through the growth and global competition of local businesses. Vicky sits on judging panels for business, innovation, marketing and export awards. Her international conference experience includes making keynote addresses and facilitating workshops.

Vicky has worked for Pritchitt Foods, Courtaulds Textiles and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). During her time with PwC, Vicky had the opportunity to work with local companies and GB-based blue chip companies.

What made you choose to be a judge for the Queen’s Awards?

I understand the impact of innovation on the commercial success of businesses. I am constantly looking for avenues to support innovation adoption and promote the benefits. When judging awards I am consistently impressed by the quality of submissions and learn new aspects of innovation that helps to continually develop my innovation appreciation and areas of application.

Why do the Queen’s Awards matter to business?

The international appreciation and recognition of the Queen's Awards provides an additional unique selling point (USP) for any business. Any USP contributes to the international success of a business. I would encourage every business to consider these awards and the benefits they can bring.

What do you enjoy most about being a QA judge?

I enjoy reviewing the applications, seeing the innovations that have been introduced by the company and the impact on their business. These come to life during the judging panel session, where robust discussion ensures the award quality is maintained. It is interesting to hear the other judges’ views on some of the innovation.

What sparks your interest across Queen’s Award applicants this year?

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number of applications remain high, but I would like to see the number grow. In these commercially tough times, businesses need to look at all aspects of competitive advantage and innovation is key.

What’s your top tip for a company that is thinking of applying for a Queen’s Award?

My tip is simply DO IT. It is too easy to procrastinate and not actually do anything. Once the commitment is made, ensure you leave enough time to present your best evidence. Sometimes companies spend a lot of time on the application, but do not actually answer the question – so make sure you answer the question. It is also important to ensure that your narrative is clear and understandable to those not close to your business.

Describe the benefits of being a Queen’s Awards winner, as you see it The benefits are: n Intentional recognition n Kudos n Recognition within the company – motivation n Encouragement to continue Describe a few features you believe make British businesses such a global success n Quality n Unique solutions n Tenacity n Enthusiasm l

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Amanda Mackenzie OBE

You must put a decent amount of effort in to applying, which means that the case and the data are robust and substantial

CATEGORY

Social Mobility AREA OF INTEREST

Responsible business in the broadest sense

Amanda is Chief Executive of Business in the Community; The Prince’s Responsible Business Network. She is also nonexecutive director at Lloyd’s Banking Group. Prior to her current role, Amanda was a member of Aviva’s Group Executive for 7 years as CCMO, having joined Aviva to change the name from Norwich Union. As a secondment she also helped launch the UN’s sustainable development goals as part of Richard Curtis’s Project Everyone. Prior to that she held director roles at British Airways Airmiles, BT and British Gas and a non-executive director role at Mothercare. She was on the board of the National Youth Orchestra for 10 years and was a member of Lord Davies' steering group to increase the number of women on boards. Amanda is a life fellow of the RSA and fellow and past president of the Marketing Society. She received an OBE in 2014 and holds an honorary doctorate from Winchester University.

What made you choose to be a judge for the Queen’s Awards?

I was extremely honoured to be asked. Judging is always a privilege as you get to see the finest work, the best cases and you always learn so much. It’s very enriching all round.

Why do the Queen’s Awards matter to business?

They are the epitome of best practice. Once awarded, you keep the award for several years, making it so special. You must put a decent amount of effort into applying, which means the case and the data are robust and substantial and that makes them a beacon for the world for really good transformative work.

Describe a few features you believe make British businesses such a global success British business is inventive, creative, has integrity and the best governance; therefore, partners around the world can work with British businesses in the knowledge that the product or service they get will be of the highest quality and help them compete better. As the saying goes, ‘A brand is as a brand does’ and the best of British usually means just that – the best! l

What do you enjoy most about being a QA judge?

Reviewing the finalists' entries and being Inspired by them.

What’s your top tip for a company thinking of applying for a Queen’s Award?

Always aim to prove what would have happened If you had done nothing. That way there Is a clear demonstration of effectiveness which can be unequivocally assessed.

The international appreciation and recognition of the Queen's Awards provides an additional unique selling point (USP) for any business

Describe the benefits of being a Queen’s Awards winner, as you see it Recognition, employee pride, a great way to reflect on what you've done and the impact of it. Quite apart from the external commercial possibilities.

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The 2018 winners

at The Queen’s Awards reception

THE reception held for the winners of the 2018 Queen’s Awards for Enterprise was once again a glittering occasion, graciously hosted by HRH The Prince of Wales, at Buckingham Palace.

The winning companies were delighted to attend the Buckingham Palace reception, held in their honour and to mark their achievements, and many took to social media to share their good news and excitement about meeting the Prince of Wales.

Overall, there were 201 winners of Queen’s Awards, with six companies receiving awards across two categories: International Trade and Innovation, a truly remarkable achievement.

The largest category was for those who attained awards in International Trade, where 129 awards were given out, followed by 61 for Innovation and the smaller categories of Sustainable Development and Promoting Opportunity (through Social Mobility) had six and five winners, respectively.

As winners of an Award, these talented entrepreneurs now have the opportunity to use The Queen’s Award flag at their offices and use the Queen’s Award emblem in their marketing activities to promote their achievements. Past winners have reported benefiting from worldwide recognition, increased commercial value, greater press coverage and a huge boost to staff morale.

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PAST WINNER INTERVIEW

A-SAFE a fantastic achievement for everyone in the business, and it’s a great way to demonstrate our hard work.

What research did you do about the awards/ application process?

AWARD CATEGORY: International Trade SIZE OF COMPANY: 250 employees in the UK WHERE BASED: Elland, West Yorkshire TYPE OF BUSINESS: Safety Barrier Manufacturer PROFILE: James Smith JOB TITLES: Co-owner and Director

Company Background

Founded in 1984, A-SAFE developed the world’s first industrial strength polymer safety barrier in 2001. Unlike standard steel barriers, these innovative barricades are able to flex, absorb impact and then return to their original shape. As well as being highly effective, A-SAFE’s polymer barriers do not need to be repaired and/or replaced anywhere near as often as steel barriers, thereby saving companies significant costs on maintenance, repairs and downtime.

This is the second time the Yorkshire-based company - which prides itself on its ‘global yet local’ export strategy - has won the Queen’s Award for International Trade. The business’ overseas sales have grown by 113 per cent over the past three years, while the proportion of sales exported has increased to 76 per cent of the total.

What made A-SAFE apply for a Queen’s Award?

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As the award is such a well-known and prestigious award, we were already very familiar with it. To research the application process, we went online and followed the .gov portal from the Queen’s Award website. It gives a clear criterion for each award before you enter. We also researched previous award winners.

What planning did you do beforehand?

If you are thinking of applying, you must know your business numbers. Request all relevant statistics from each department and analyse the statistics. We also collected data from our wider global group, engaging senior managers across the world.

How did you find the application process?

The rigorous application process is all the more rewarding. It is very in-depth, so you need to do a lot of research to ensure you are giving enough detail to answer the questions accurately.

Did you learn anything about your own company during the process?

The criterion gives you something to measure your success against. You learn the strengths and improvement areas of your business, helping to develop your business moving forward.

Did you engage other team members?

The application requires members of staff across different department coming together, communicating and sharing information to ensure you can give the required details.

Describe any challenges you overcame in the process?

Distilling an array of quantifiable, specific details, into a succinct answer.

Now you’ve won an award, what advice would you give to others thinking of applying?

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Before you go to fill in the application form make sure you collate all your business information across key departments. Give good examples and be specific to the question.

How will you use your award to promote your business going forward?

The Queen’s Award logo is on all of our marketing material and website, it is something we are really proud of. The Queen’s Award not only helps attract new customers but also new employees, as it shows we’re a forward-thinking innovative company.

Would you consider applying again in future?

After achieving the Queen’s Award for Enterprise twice, we now have our sights on the Queen’s Award for Innovation. We have new products scheduled to come out this year, which bring something completely unique to the market.

What do you consider to be the benefits of being a Queen’s Award holder? l Acknowledgement of the outstanding efforts and hard work of A-SAFE staff l Global recognition of A-SAFE’s exporting excellence l Brand authority: use of the emblem for marketing purposes. n

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Criteria...

INTERNATIONAL TRADE The UK has a distinguished history of trading across the globe and the significance of the economic benefits associated with this were acknowledge by The Queen’s Awards right from the beginning.

In 1966, when the awards were instigated by The Queen, companies would apply to win awards in the category of Export, Technology, or a combination of the both.

The Export category was renamed in 2000 to International Trade and has remained as such. This everpopular category attracts the biggest number of entries and in 2018, 152 companies won an award for their overseas trading activities.

The general eligibility criteria for The Queen’s Awards can be found on the website https://www.gov.uk/queensawards-for-enterprise/eligibility.

Included below is a list of the additional criteria specifically for the International Trade award. Your company must:

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l Have made a minimum of £100,000 in overseas sales in the first year of your entry and show year-on-year growth; l Prove it has achieved outstanding growth in overseas earnings relative to your business size and sector; and l Prove steep year-on-year growth (without dips) in overseas sales over three years – or substantial year-onyear growth (without dips) over six years.

If you already hold an international trade award you can only apply for a new award for: l Substantial year-on-year growth over six years if you’re in the fifth (final) year of your current award; and l Steep year-on-year growth in overseas sales over three years if you’re in the second, third, fourth or final year of your current award.

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INTERNATIONAL TRADE

List of all winners in the International Trade category Her Majesty The Queen has been graciously pleased to confer her Awards in 2019 upon the following business units in recognition of their outstanding achievements in International Trade:

2M Group Limited (trading as 2M Holdings) Group of Science companies, supplying chemicals worldwide to industries including oil and gas, aviation and personal care A STEM skills supporter Adaptavist Adaptavist helps the world’s most complex enterprises make radical change business-asusual when it comes to their software Add Latent Ltd Asset Integrity Management, Maintenance Optimisation, Benchmarking Analysis, Materials Management, Operational Support Allett Ltd Allett manufactures the best quality professional cylinder mowers for sports professionals, supplying some of the most famous sports grounds across the world Alvan Blanch Development Company Ltd Design and manufacture of Drying and Processing systems for Agricultural Products and Waste Materials AMT Marketing Ltd Worldwide supply and distribution of branded promotional merchandise

Auger Torque Europe Limited Development, manufacture and sales of earth drill & trenching related attachments for construction equipment

C Brandauer & Co Ltd Brandauer is one of Europe’s largest privatelyowned pressworkers and stamping specialists, supplying customers in more than 20 countries

Aviation News Ltd Aviation News Ltd is a publishing and events company dedicated to the commercial aviation finance and leasing industry

Carramore International Ltd A supplier of customised services to medical and life science projects throughout the world

Avon Specialty Metals Ltd Ethical recycling and trading of complex nickel and cobalt aerospace alloys and exotic minor metals

Carrs Foods International Ltd/St Peirre Groupe An international market leader in the bakery sector, with a brand portfolio including St Pierre, Baker Street and Paul Hollywood

Berkeley Engineering (Services) Limited Berkeley Engineering Consultants: a single access point for specialist engineering services for the global oil & gas sector

Clarendon Specialty Fasteners Ltd A market leading supplier of fasteners, components and hardware for the aerospace, defence, industrial and motorsport sectors worldwide

BioStrata Ltd Driving scientific progress by connecting people and technology through life science marketing communications Bodywise UK Ltd Organic and natural tampons, panty-liners, wipes and pads for periods, incontinence and new mothers

Aspen Pumps Ltd Aspen Pumps Group is a market leader in condensate removal

Boxclever Press Ltd Design, manufacture and sale of beautiful, practical stationery to help people organise their busy lives

Atom Brands Producer multi award winning British craft spirits Bathtub Gin Rumbullion! Boutique-y Whisky, Gin, Rum

Brigade Electronics Group PLC Brigade provides innovative camera monitoring systems, object detection and warning alarms for commercial vehicles and mobile machinery

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CMS Cepcor Ltd Europe’s leading aftermarket manufacturer and supplier of crusher spare parts, wear liners and service to mining, quarrying and associated crushing industries globally Coltraco Limited, trading as Coltraco Ultrasonics Design and manufacture of ultrasonic technology for liquid level indication, seal integrity and condition monitoring Combined Chemical Services (UK) Ltd Combined Chemical Services (UK) Ltd is a global supplier of speciality chemical raw materials and formulated products.

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Concrete Canvas Ltd Development and manufacture of revolutionary building materials which save time, money and reduce environmental impact

DriveWorks Ltd Design Automation, Product Configurator and Business Process Automation Software for Manufacturing

Costello Medical Consulting Ltd Advisory boards, value materials, medical education, publication planning, evidence development, statistics, health-economic modelling and HTA

DV Signage Ltd DV Signage delivers unique digital experiences, specialist technical interiors and creative showcase environments to global corporates

Customer Thermometer Customer Thermometer is a market leader in survey solutions Cyden Limited Specialists in Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) hair removal devices for use in the home.

DK Engineering Acquisition Consultancy Limited DK Engineering encompasses all aspects of classic and historic car ownership, from sales and award-winning restorations, through to race preparation and storage Diamond Dispersions Limited Manufacturer of quality water-based colour concentrates used in inkjet inks to digitally print textiles and other materials Direction & Design Ltd t/as tangerine tangerine is an internationally renowned UK design consultancy that creates groundbreaking innovation and design that makes consumers happy and businesses profitable Doodlehouses Ltd/ta Chicken Guard ChickenGuard is a Cambridgeshire-based company that has created the world’s most innovative automated chicken coop door opener Dotmatics Limited A global scientific informatics and services provider, providing data management, analysis and visualisation tools to support research and discovery

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Easyskinz Ltd EasySkinz produces skins that allow people to update the look of their portable electronic devices and add all-around protection

Foilco Limited Supplier of the widest range of stamping foil shades and finishes to the print industry Foregenix Foregenix are cybersecurity experts specialising in digital forensics, incident response, PCI compliance and solutions that tangibly reduce risk Gapuma (UK) Limited International trading, procurement, selling of bulk materials and commodities, including pharmaceuticals, chemicals and raw materials

EDGE Innovate NI Ltd EDGE Innovate designs, manufactures and exports world class material handling and recycling solutions

Hammersmith Medicines Research Ltd, trading as HMR Ltd Doing the early clinical trials of potential new medicines for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies worldwide

Element 1 Engineering Ltd High performance car intake design and development

Haybury Ltd An executive search consultancy focusing solely within life sciences

Emberson Group Ltd Employee-owned group of brand, marketing and lead generation agencies

High Voltage Partial Discharge Ltd Partial Discharge condition monitoring solutions for large, critical high voltage networks

Engineering Technology Applications Ltd A comprehensive range of services, products and skilled personnel to support subsea cable projects worldwide

Home Health (UK) Ltd Home Health UK Ltd specialises in rapid In-Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) tests that can be carried out at home and give instant results

Ezidock Systems Ltd Ezi-Dock design and manufacture Containment Systems and Packaging for highly toxic ingredients

Hyperion Insurance Group Limited Specialist insurance and reinsurance solutions, direct to client and wholesale

Firesafe Fire Rated Ductwork Limited Firesafe Fire Rated Ductwork Limited is a British originator and licensor of specialist non-coated fire resisting ductwork systems Flight Calibration Services Ltd FCSL manufacture their own Flight Inspection System and provide an International Flight Inspection Service

Ideal Boilers Ltd A world-leading commercial and domestic heating solutions manufacturer Implementra Ltd trading as Conversion Rate Experts Measurably growing the world leading web companies by redesigning their websites using a customer-centric methodology

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Inspiration Healthcare Ltd Providing pioneering, outcome changing products to save and improve the lives of premature babies JMDA (John Martin Design Associates Limited) JMDA Design is a global leader in the Child Restraint System (CRS) industry KIRK Process Solutions Limited Kirk Process Solutions Ltd is an engineering and manufacturing business specialising in cyclone technology for cleaning natural gas Language Insight Innovative translation and language services provider, delivering high quality services, across industry, with specialist coding translation in all languages Leeson Polyurethanes Ltd Development, manufacture and sale of formulated polyurethane adhesives, coatings, waterproofing and binders Leverton Clarke Ltd A speciality chemicals manufacturer, Leverton Lithium has more than 40 years’ experience in lithium-based chemistry Markes International Limited Markes International is the leading manufacturer of equipment for the extraction and detection of low-level organic chemicals in air, solids and liquids Marlin Green Ltd An award winning international recruitment agency that provides specialist Pan-European contract IT recruitment solutions Meech International Ltd A world leading manufacturer, designer and engineer of static control, web cleaning, compressed air technology and surface cleaning products

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Melba Products Limited Manufacturers of plastic moulded products particularly, but not exclusively, for the traffic management sector Meteor Inkjet Limited Meteor develops and supplies productionready electronics and software to drive all major industrial inkjet printheads Metstok Limited Metstok Ltd distributes stainless steel flat products to stockholders in 14 countries across Europe, from central stocks held in Antwerp MiRiCal Emblems Ltd Specialist manufacturer of heat-applied emblems, transfers, decals and labels for the workwear, safetywear, corporatewear, weatherwear, sportswear and leisurewear trades Natgraph Ltd Natgraph Ltd is the global leader in advanced drying and curing technology for the industrial printing market naughtone limited A furniture design and manufacturing company, which creates unique products that have instant, broad appeal and extensive applications Newtecnic Ltd Innovative design engineering of ambitious, visually exciting public buildings and building facades Niftylift Ltd Niftylift is one of the largest manufacturers of Mobile Elevating Work Platforms in Europe Occupancy Marketing Limited t/a 80 DAYS Providers of creative and digital marketing services to the hospitality and travel industries Odyssey Interactive Ltd T/A Interact Cloud-hosted, out-of-the-box intranet software, with strategy, training, guidance and support as required by customer

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OE Electrics Limited A leading designer and manufacturer of mains power and USB charging solutions Only Natural Products Ltd Creators and producers of natural and organic teas, herbal and fruit infusions Orbital Education Limited Orbital Education owns and operates a growing group of British-style international schools across the globe, educating both expatriate and local students Original Products (Marylebone) ltd The UK’s leading specialist supplier of professional quality home bar and drinking accessories Oxford PharmaGenesis Limited Oxford PharmaGenesis provides HealthScience communications services to the healthcare industry, professional societies and patient groups Oxford Programs Limited, trading as Oxford Royale Academy Specialist provider of academic and inspirational summer courses in Oxford, Cambridge, London and other cities Oxford Technical Solutions Ltd Design and manufacture of high-precision satellite-aided inertial navigation measurement systems for automotive and surveying Oxford Technologies Limited trading as Veolia Nuclear Solutions UK Experts in remote handling (robotics) and waste management solutions, from design to build, for extreme environments Panel Graphic Limited Display enhancement solutions, offering specialist materials and surface coatings to improve the performance of plastics

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ParkCloud Ltd Connecting the worlds drivers with parking spaces via online reservations and partnerships across 42 countries

Proto Labs Limited Protolabs offers three digital manufacturing services: 3D printing, CNC machining and injection-moulding

Partech Instruments Design and manufacture of sensors for monitoring and control of water and wastewater treatment processes

Q5 Partners LLP trading as Q5 Q5 is an innovative consulting firm specialising in organisation design and change management

Perle Hotels Limited A luxury accommodation experience for those looking to create memories and be immersed in Scotland Pexa Ltd Pexa, part of the Addev Materials group, is the leading supplier of surface coatings and treatments to the aerospace industry Pickering Interfaces Ltd The leading supplier of modular signal switching and simulation solutions for use in electronic test and verification.

Pitchmark Limited Manufacturers and suppliers of line marking paint and equipment to the sports turf industry worldwide PortSwigger Web Security Design and develop software tools that are used globally to secure the internet Precision Dippings Manufacturing Ltd A market leading producer of bespoke rubber products for a variety of industries, and the company behind the innovative Bloccs range Preqin Ltd Data, intelligence and workflow tools to assist alternative assets industry participants PrimeVigilance ltd PrimeVigilance, an Ergomed company, provides pharmacovigilance services relating to detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects and other drug-related problems

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REPL Group Worldwide Ltd The REPL Group is a leading retail IT consulting and technology firm Rex international ltd British design and wholesale company offering fun, quirky and colourful gifts and homeware to retailers worldwide rFpro Driving simulation software for the testing and training of autonomous vehicles Richardsons Healthcare Ltd Manufacturer of innovative patient support mattresses and accessories for operating tables

Seada Technology LTD Sell full range of Video wall controllers with custom software Semmco Limited Specialists in helicopter and rail engineering maintenance equipment and access platforms, as well as aircraft ground support equipment and refuelling systems Shnuggle An award-winning company that designs and produces a range of clever baby products Snap-on UK Holdings A leading global developer, manufacturer and marketer of tool and equipment solutions for professional tool users Specialist Insight Limited Specialist Insight Ltd has four main brands: Corporate Jet Investor, Helicopter Investor, Superyacht Investor and Revolution.Aero

Roberts Recycling Ltd Specialists in clothes recycling for councils and charities

Sterling Pharma Solutions Limited Award-winning semantic software company offering an ontology-led approach, supporting the top 20 pharma with use cases across life sciences

Rotech (Swindon) Ltd Rotech is the supplier of the Electronic Monitoring Keg system, in use in hundreds of breweries around the globe

Systems Interface Limited Systems Interface delivers turnkey Air Traffic Control projects to civil and defence airports and civil aviation authorities worldwide

RTR GmbH & Co KG RTR GmbH & Co KG is a specialist supplier for pipes, tubes, plate, clad plate and accessories for pressure part applications

Teledyne Limited Experts in the design, development and manufacture of microwave/RF components and subsystems for the defence, security, industrial and commercial space sectors

SciBite Limited Award-winning semantic software company offering an ontology-led approach, supporting the top 20 pharmaceutical companies with use cases across life sciences

The Helping Hand Company Manufacture and supply of professional litter clearance hand tools and environmental educational support services

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The Lawton Tube Co Ltd A 100-year-old copper tube and fittings manufacturer and distributor: key markets are plumbing, air-conditioning and refrigeration, medical gases and engineering TheWhiskyBarrelcom The WhiskyBarrelcom is a world-renowned online retailer that has been awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2019 for International Trade Tissue Solutions Ltd A customer-focused global provider of ethically sourced human samples required for pre-clinical drug development and research Today Translations & Business Services Ltd t/a Guildhawk Guildhawk (formerly Today Translations) is a leading language services and international advisory company Trace2o Ltd Trace2o Ltd manufactures and supplies environmental testing technologies, specialising in the analysis of drinking (potable) and waste water Greens Power Limited Designing, manufacturing economisers, waste heat recovery systems and ancillary equipment and aftersales maintenance and support Ultimotive Limited World-leading licensee that manufactures innovative chemical cleaning products for the global automotive industry, including WilliamsF1, MotoGP, TurtleWax Pro and Caiman Universal Smart Cards Limited A market leader in the supply and implementation of smart cards and related products

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Valid Insight LTD A specialist global market access consultancy is celebrating achieving The Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade Verifile Limited Verifile provides global background screening services, helping employers avoid the perils of hiring the wrong person

Yelo Yelo designs and manufactures automated test equipment for a range of industries, including industrial, photonics, automotive, medical and defence Zip-Clip Ltd Zip-Clip is a specialist manufacturer of commercial wire suspension systems for the building services industry

Visual Data Media Services Localisation and distribution of premium TV and film content to streaming platforms and broadcasters globally Vivos Technology Ltd t/a PHASTAR Phastar is a global clinical research consultancy, offering statistical consulting, clinical trial reporting and data sciences services Weston Williamson + Partners LLP We provide architectural design, urban design, master planning, visualisation and Building Information Modelling (BIM) services Whyte & Ivory Ltd Worldwide importer and exporter of drapery soft furnishings to both the domestic and contract sectors Wm Croxson & Son Ltd Design and manufacturer of glass containers and closures for food and drink manufacturers Woodford Engineering Consultancy (UK) Ltd Aircraft systems design, development, certification and safety engineering services Wren Laboratories Limited Wren Laboratories Ltd - the company behind the UK’s most popular probiotics range, OptiBac Probiotics Wrendale Designs Ltd Beautiful quality greeting cards, stationery and giftware featuring quirky and characterful illustrations by Hannah Dale

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80 DAYS LTD Established in 2002, 80 DAYS provides creative and digital marketing services to the hospitality and travel industries.

“We’re delighted to win a Queen’s Award for International Trade; it’s wonderful recognition of our continued drive to share our expertise with a global audience,” say the team.

Working with more Mark Forrester, David Gardner, Chris McGuire than 450 hotels and travel businesses globally, 80 DAYS’ digital marketing services support customers by driving sales through their own website as opposed to via third parties. The company’s approach blends commercial focus with creative innovation and is delivered by its multi-lingual team from offices in Edinburgh, London, Marbella and Dubai. entry and confirm that it is either passed Today, 80 DAYS exports close to 60% the of its sales.

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2M Holdings By winning The Queen’s Award for International Trade, 2M Holdings Group of Companies (crowned UK Export Champions for 2019), is sending a strong and positive message to the UK chemical industry in the north of England.

Through its work with the UK Government’s Department of International Trade (DIT) in a bid to accelerate export, 2M has succeeded in reaching many new markets.

As a company, 2M Holdings believes in the importance of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education for young people.

Its team actively invests in skills creation within its local communities, and in creating access to careers in STEM in the UK and beyond.

2M Holdings (www.2m-holdings.com), is a portfolio of strong brand, science-based companies, supplying chemicals and application know-how worldwide.

Entrepreneur founded in 2004, the 2M Group is privately owned. The Group is led by Mottie Kessler MBE, the present Chairman and CEO, and Dr Maggie Kessler, who is International Trade Director.

Headquartered in the UK, the company has international presence in Benelux, Brazil, China, Germany, Ireland, Poland and Scandinavia, and 2M exports to more than 90 countries.

2M supplies the following industries: aerospace and aviation; coating; emission reduction; flavours and fragrances and oil and gas (oil refineries), pharmaceuticals and precision cleaning.

2M also supplies a range of surfactants for personal care, household and industrial hygiene cleaning.

2M Holdings’ branded products include CleanAirBlue™ (AdBlue); MEC™Prime; Perklone™ EXT; Pigmentan™; SamSol™; Surfac®; and Triklone™ LE.

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The company was established AMT have clinched The Queen’s Award for International Trade in 1996 when the founder, Andrew Turner, was given a kite as a present and realised that it would make a fantastic promotional gift. Within a year he had sold thousands of personalised kites. AMT has gone from strength to strength, with many more promotional items being added to the range, from sports merchandise to reusable coffee cups.

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Adaptavist

Adaptavist helps the world’s most complex enterprises make radical change simply business-as-usual. Its consulting, support services, training and software products help its customers address the challenges of digital transformation to make their software a source of competitive advantage.

For most enterprises, software is central to their ability to compete, adapt and thrive. Adaptavist helps its clients evolve their software and enhance the business processes that are supported by software. Adaptavist has built its business on offering organisations access to the skills, processes, experience and tools they need to automate, integrate and extend their software and processes, increasing efficiency and reducing time to market.

Customers in over 60 countries

Founded in 2005, the business is headquartered in London, providing consulting, training, support services and software products to companies in over 60 countries. Today, it employs almost 250 people with offices in USA, Canada, mainland Europe and Asia. Its customer base includes thousands of companies from NASA to Oracle, the BBC to Volkswagen, and Siemens to WD-40.

Demand for Adaptavist’s combination of business and technical skills has long been in high demand on a global basis.

The company has delivered seven years of straight hypergrowth and exports its software and services on a worldwide basis. Today, half of Adaptavist’s software revenues and nearly 40% of its services revenues come from outside the UK.

The leading Atlassian partner globally Since launching in 2005, Adaptavist has

It was voted among the top 100 best small companies to work for

Teamwork is at the heart of everything Adaptavist achieves

established itself as the leading Atlassian partner globally, offering professional services, managed services, training and Atlassian Apps for Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket and the application lifecycle management (ALM) stack.

Atlassian is an enterprise software company that develops software development tools.

(Malaysia), Tartu (Estonia) and Madrid (Spain).

This expansion means that more organisations will be able to access the company’s offerings – and true 24/7 customer support and service can be offered to Adaptavist’s customers around the world.

Upcoming innovations include more tools and services to support digital transformation, and a framework to support the scaling of agile development. The company also recently launched AutoBlocks, which is a low-code toolset that puts automation tools in the hands of nontechnical staff.

Adaptavist believes that the key to competitive advantage today – for itself as well as its clients – is not just transforming the organisation, but helping to create organisations where continuous change is business as usual.

A unique company culture

One of the key’s to Adaptavist’s growth and expansion has been a flexible approach to work and the ability to create a culture that values excellence, trust, curiosity and teamwork. Many of its employees work remotely, underpinned by a growing network of office hubs to support collaboration. The company has been rated among The Sunday Times’ Best Small Companies to Work For for the past two years, and was recognised as one of the Deloitte Fast 50 in 2018.

Continued innovation and growth

Adaptavist continues to scale-up rapidly. This year it will open three offices in Kuala Lumpur

ADAPTAVIST Unit 2, Waterside, 44-48 Wharf Road, London, N1 7UX Tel: +44 (0)20 7976 4896 • Web: www.adaptavist.com

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: Aspen Pumps Group is a market leader in condensate removal.

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Aspen Pumps Group Aspen Pumps Group [Aspen] is thrilled to be receiving a third Queen’s Award for Enterprise, this time for International Trade, following two previous wins for International Trade in 2009 and Innovation in 2014.

Founded in 1992 by three engineers, Aspen’s story has humble beginnings. The development of a range of air conditioning pumps bridged a gap in the ‘HVAC’ market – and Aspen Pumps was born. Now, 27 years later and through continued innovation, Aspen boasts an impressive range of pumps to suit every application, as well as a full range of installation accessories, tools and chemicals. Aspen’s success has been built by the hands-on experience of installation engineers: expert knowledge that has contributed to Aspen’s position as the market leader in condensate removal.

Now an international group, Aspen houses six brands, all designed with a focus on meeting the needs of the air conditioning engineer. Providing market specific product and service offerings has enabled Aspen to provide a ‘one-stop shop’ solution to HVAC engineers which has, in turn, allowed the company to build strong relationships with distributors worldwide.

A private equity investment from 3i PLC in 2015 enabled Aspen to make key business acquisitions in France, Germany, Australia and most recently in the UK with JAVAC and Advanced Engineering.

This has allowed the company to better service customers in core markets with stock on the ground and territory based sales managers.

This shift has propelled Aspen onto the global stage, making the company a key player in the international HVAC market with an impressive global pump market share.

Among the other brands within the group are Big Foot Systems who design and manufacture rooftop support systems, providing standard, custom and bespoke designs to suit every project.

JAVAC, a market leading HVAC tool manufacturer came on board in 2017, specialising in vacuum pumps, refrigeration recovery units and tools for the HVAC industry. Advanced Engineering is the most recent addition to the Aspen family as of 2019, and brings 35 years’ experience in coil cleaners and service equipment.

Key strategic decisions have led to investment in new product lines, resource, systems and operations, ensuring the business will continue on its upward trajectory in international markets over the next five years. With international markets providing additional platforms for growth, Aspen is fast becoming a key player in the international HVAC market.

Reflecting on the significance of the Queen’s Award, CEO Adrian Thompson said: “Winning a third Queen’s Award is a huge achievement for Aspen Pumps and is testament to the hard work and commitment of everyone in the Group. A relentless focus on innovation and excellent

Aspen Pumps Group – which has its UK base in Hailsham in East Sussex – is a market leader in condensate removal

Aspen houses six international brands

Aspen is committed to innovation

customer relations have been the cornerstone of our success. We have an outstanding team and I am immensely proud that every facet of the business has contributed to winning this award.”

Aspen’s continual commitment to innovation, expert knowledge of the industry and global marketing achievements have seen the business thrive, trebling in size in the last 10 years. As the only ACR ancillaries business with a truly global reach, Aspen trades in over 100 countries worldwide with business premises on four continents.

Receiving the Queen’s Award for International Trade in 2019 exemplifies the achievements of this British manufacturer as it moves towards increasing recognition as a global brand leader.

Winning a third Queen’s Award cements Aspen’s position as a global brand leader

ASPEN PUMPS GROUP Apex Way, Hailsham, East Sussex, BN27 3WA Tel: +44 (0) 1323 848842 • Fax: +44 (0) 1323 848846 www.aspenpumps.com

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: Ethical recycling and trading of complex nickel and cobalt aerospace alloys and exotic minor metals

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Avon Specialty Metals Ltd Avon Specialty Metals Ltd is a global leader in the processing and trading of highperformance metals and alloys. Established in 2012, and with core manufacturing roots dating back over half a century, the company specialises in the recycling of complex hightemperature nickel, cobalt and iron-based superalloy scrap, sourced from all over the world and from a diverse range of industries including aerospace, power generation, oil and gas, medical, electronics and additive manufacturing.

Avon Specialty Metals is a global leader in the processing and trading of high-performance metals and alloys

The company has a high-tech processing facility

From its state-of-the-art processing facility located in Gloucester, it also supplies a comprehensive range of off-exchange minor metals (including tantalum, niobium, molybdenum, tungsten, rhenium, hafnium, zirconium), and its products have been independently certified as “conflict-free” by the Responsible Minerals Initiative.

The company has seen a substantial increase in its overseas earnings, which have risen by 270% from £2.76 million 2016 to £10.2 million in the year to June 2018.

Winning this prestigious award recognises the company’s impressive growth in turnover, exports and profits, alongside its ethical and

sustainable approach to business dealings, and its commitment to recycling, protecting the environment and the conservation of precious natural resources.

This is the fourth Queen’s Award for the Avon Group, with Avon Metals Ltd having previously won in 2007, 2009 and 2012 in the International Trade and Sustainable Development categories.

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Aviation News Starting a new business when you’ve just had your first child and moved to a new house is probably not the most opportune moment in time – but that’s how Aviation News Ltd was born. Husband and wife team, Philip and Victoria Tozer-Pennington, began their publishing business with equity partner and friend, Dino D’Amore, in August 2010, where all good businesses seem to begin – the kitchen table.

Using every spare moment outside of their paid daily jobs, the team began the brand with an online daily news service, sent by email to their combined aviation contacts, built up over decades of experience in the industry. Philip was primarily responsible for sales and product development, but also for providing insightful and sometimes controversial comment on the day’s news.

Journalist Victoria sourced and reported on the daily news, and Dino provided technical and web support. The newsletter soon became essential reading for the commercial aviation finance and leasing community.

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Now in their ninth year, celebrated every year in January in Dublin, Ireland, the Aviation 100 Awards are recognised as an unmissable event in the commercial aviation calendar. Airline Economics, with covers that are recognisable thanks to their caricatures of industry figures and situations, will soon produce its 50th issue.

Aviation News also publishes MRO Global, a publication dedicated to the maintenance, repair

and overhaul aviation industry, several annual reports, including the Finance & Leasing Guide, the Aviation Law Guide, and the Aero Engine Guide.

Most recently, diversifying from its core audience, the team has launched Aviation Life, a consumer magazine that covers future technology, from vertical take-off air taxis to commercial space developments, adventurous travel, food and traveller health, all from the unique perspective of the aviation industry professional.

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Airline Economics is respected in the industry for its candour and insightful analysis of industry news and events. Building on that reputation, and after holding three successful investor events in London, Hong Kong and Miami in 2011, the team took a calculated risk in 2013 and launched the first of its major Growth Frontiers conferences in Dublin in January 2013.

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quality speakers and informed debate on stage and off, for a more value-for-money price point.

The seventh Dublin event was held in January this year, with a record breaking delegation of more than 3,600 attendees, with international delegates making the greatest economic contribution to the local economy.

Since 2013, Airline Economics has launched Growth Frontiers conferences around the world, with large conferences in Seoul, London, Dubai, Tel Aviv, New York and Hong Kong. The Hong Kong

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and New York Growth Frontiers conferences are the fastest growing Airline Economics events, again attracting domestic and international delegates.

Aviation News holds a large exhibition every year under its MRO Global brand at the Grand Hall Olympia. Aviation News also has an Irish subsidiary, Aviation News (Ireland) Ltd, which holds a large exhibition each May at the Royal Dublin Society in Dublin.

From humble beginnings, and being entirely self-funded, Aviation News has grown from a team of three to eight employees. Aviation News has shown triple-digit revenue growth in every one of its eight years of business, despite being hit hard by the fall of sterling following the Brexit referendum (primarily due to the nature of the business in collecting funds in GBP while all costs are in USD and EUR).

The Queen’s Award for Enterprise for International Trade 2019 covers six years of unbroken international trade growth – between 2013 and 2018, Aviation News international sales have grown by 1,440% to over £2.9m. On average, 88% of Aviation News annual business comes from outside of the UK. The company’s profit Since inception, Aviation News has maintained its core aim of reducing costs to delegates and sponsors. Since entering the conference and exhibition space, Aviation News has cut the cost to delegates by 62% and the cost to sponsors by an average of 50%, not only at its events, but by compelling competitors to lower their prices.

Over recent years, through innovative deals with suppliers, Aviation News has been able to completely demonetise many events for delegates, while holding its margins intact, assisting the industry it serves like no other conference and event organiser has before. All the while the levels of spend at Aviation News conferences and events continue to be around double that of competitors as it sets the bar ever higher, with ultra large conferences with a myriad of networking events and entertainment attached. Having consolidated its position as a market leader in the aviation sector, Aviation News is now looking to extend its business model into other sectors, including renewables and general finance.

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Allett Ltd is honoured to receive the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2019. Allett is a wholly British-owned company which, for more than 50 years, has designed and manufactured specialised cylinder mowers for the sports Allett Ltd supplies some of the most famous sports and premium lawns grounds in the world market.

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Brigade Electronics’ vision is for zero lives to be lost due to collisions involving commercial vehicles and mobile plant. Since 1976 when Brigade introduced the very first reversing alarm to Europe, its team has championed the cause of vehicle and plant safety, pioneering many products and developing, patenting and influencing new technology.

Brigade’s solutions reduce the risk of collisions and protect vulnerable road users by minimising vehicle blind-spots and assisting drivers to manoeuvre safely.

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BioStrata Ltd The life science sector is a vibrant space, with new technologies, techniques and services being developed and introduced to the market at a remarkable pace. However, creating an innovative product or service is no guarantee of success – it is vital that companies engage a modern scientific audience by embracing the latest public relations and inbound marketing approaches.

BioStrata is a specialist marketing communications agency that connects companies in the life science sector with customers worldwide, to assist in the adoption of cuttingedge products and services that drive scientific discovery and impact the world around us.

Representing a broad range of life science companies, from start-ups to global corporates, its current clients range from companies providing life science research tools, diagnostics and lab automation solutions, to those working in the food and environmental technology, biotechnology, drug discovery and pharmaceutical sectors.

Started by Paul Avery PhD and Clare Russell PhD in 2014, it is a fully integrated service agency offering strategy, branding and message development through to content creation, creative execution, digital marketing and public relations.

customers and drive action across a broad range of markets, such as food safety, environmental analysis, cancer research, informatics and forensics, to name just a few.

BioStrata’s core market focus is what sets it apart. Its team knows how life science customers think, feel and buy – after all, they used to be them.

Managing directors Clare Russell PhD and Paul Avery PhD

Its team is skilled across the entire marketing mix, with over 100 years’ combined experience.

With offices in Cambridge (UK) and Boston (US), the growing team includes a significant number of people with deep scientific experience and knowledge, such as PhD-qualified scientists and others who have spent time in laboratories at the start of their careers.

Deep specialist experience and knowledge ensure the team communicate effectively with the scientific audiences clients want to reach. The team is able to turn technical information into creative and inspiring messages that resonate with

The BioStrata team are based in the UK and America

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: Brandauer is one of Europe’s largest privately-owned pressworkers and stamping specialists, supplying customers in more than 20 countries.

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Brandauer A Birmingham metal stamping company is taking on the world’s press-workers – and winning – after announcing a £1.5m export boost.

Brandauer, which employs 67 people at its state-of-the-art facility in the city, has secured new orders to supply customers in the Netherlands, the United States and, for the first time ever, Israel.

It has helped the family-owned business increase sales to £9.2m and has been a major feature in it securing the Queen’s Award for Enterprise (International Trade).

The management team are now focused on doubling turnover to £18m by 2022, and have invested £3m in the latest metrology technology and high-speed presses from Bruderer and Yamada to achieve the ambitious plans.

Rowan Crozier, CEO of Brandauer, explains: “There has been a lot of uncertainty with Brexit and falling demand in China, but that hasn’t stopped us actively targeting international business and winning it.

“We have found that our ability to meet exacting tolerances within competitive lead times is in demand, even in the presswork ‘powerhouse’ of Germany where their specialists simply can’t match our turnaround times.”

He continues: “Launching our new products, including Elopin (solderless press-fit connector), CB Cable Clips and turn-key tooling, has also been successful and contributed to the rise in export orders.

“The Queen’s Award really is the icing on the cake and testament to the hard work, commitment and innovation all of our staff have put in to help make us a world leader.

“It’s rare for a company of our size to achieve this accolade, and we know it is going to be a fantastic marketing tool when tendering for more work in the United States and targeted expansion into consumer markets.”

Established in 1862, Brandauer is one of the West Midlands’ best-kept manufacturing secrets, producing millions of high tolerance metal pressings and stampings every week for customers in the plumbing, automotive, domestic products,

Most of the products it makes are invisible to the user…

Brandauer is one of the West Midlands’ best-kept manufacturing secrets

electrical, medical and renewables sectors.

Most of the products it makes are invisible to the user, but fundamental in making many everyday items work effectively. These include electrical connectors that are fitted in 90% of the world’s kettles, edge connectors for the dimming of rear-view mirrors in 50% of modern-day cars, and seven million nose bridge clips per month – used predominantly in medical/personal protection face masks over four continents.

In total, 85% of the firm’s current £9.2 million annual sales is exported to international markets, half of which is direct from its factory in Birmingham. This has gone up 4% year-on-year since 2015 and seen it operate in more than 20 countries, including traditionally ‘hard to break’ territories of Israel, the US, Saudi Arabia and Germany.

Rowan adds: “What has been really pleasing is how the surge in orders has gone across our main areas of expertise, ranging from a grab ring

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business ‘win’ worth £500,000 to a turnkey tooling and stamping process in the US, worth the best part of £450,000.

“The real breakthrough moment for our business though was the contract in Israel, where we are supporting the expansion of a subscription razor company by producing the stainless steel frames the blades are fixed to. The lead came from a social media video and, when ramped up, will be around £1m per year in revenue.”

Brandauer is part of the Manufacturing Assembly Network, a collective of eight sub-contract manufacturers and a specialist engineering design agency who work together to win work at home and abroad.

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: Berkeley Engineering Consultants: a single access point for specialist engineering services for the global oil & gas sector

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Berkeley Engineering Consultants The Berkeley story began when two vastly experienced oil and gas sector engineers, Irteza Piracha and Mujteba Piracha, both chartered in their field, left their employed roles to go it alone. They believed they had what it took to create jobs and offer something different. They established their own consultancy, Berkeley Engineering Consultants (BEC) – named after Berkeley Square, itself named after John Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley of Stratton, where they established their office.

Within a very short time, BEC won contracts to provide process engineering and construction support to two major international oil players in Africa and Kazakhstan.

The Queen’s Award for International Trade represents the latest milestone in BEC’s journey – a major achievement as one of just over 200 companies recognised from more than four million registered businesses nationwide.

A commitment to innovation and excellence in all areas has seen BEC become a global preferred partner to many leading names. BEC has some 500 employees, without whom this growth would not be possible. “This award is the result of the support and commitment of our company staff, and we are indebted to them and their families for the belief they have shown in the Company’s vision” states Irteza Piracha the current CEO. BEC successfully competes with listed companies for major projects in extraction, refining, processing and petrochemical production, with significant annual export sales.

“Although we were based in the UK, our ability to work globally has been vital from day one,”

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explains Irteza Piracha.

“We were – and are – flexible enough to support projects anywhere worldwide, but our key market is the Arabian Gulf and our localisation initiatives, together with knowledge transfer from the UK, placed us ideally to work on major projects with key regional players.”

Gaining a foothold in the Arabian Gulf In 2009, BEC received a call which uniquely impacted its progress. The UK Department of International Trade invited BEC to the Two Kingdoms Conference, a significant event attended by major oil and gas sector names.

The event saw BEC meet senior representatives of Saudi Aramco, the leading producer of energy and chemicals that drive global commerce and enhance people’s daily lives worldwide.

Discussions continued day and night, creating numerous exciting opportunities to work with Saudi Aramco and its affiliates. With the support of local Saudi partners, BEC established a solid reputation with Saudi Aramco, laying the foundations for its ongoing success.

“Our flexibility and breadth of knowledge were integral to winning these contracts,” continues Irteza Piracha. “In this sector, every project is unique, and our approach mirrors that, through our range of services and scope of expertise.”

A broad and flexible range of services BEC’s focus is on process engineering design, helping clients select the safest, most efficient and cost-effective options for their facilities.

Services include front-end engineering design (FEED); dynamic simulation; debottlenecking; commissioning and decommissioning support; health, safety & environment (HSE) and ad hoc technical support.

FEED projects typically involve concept selection and feasibility studies, enabling next-phase contractors to move seamlessly into detailed design without rework or redefinition.

BEC also specialises in detailed engineering and dynamic simulation, creating customised unit operation models to solve project life cycle challenges before the system is built. The team also oversees all areas of commissioning and decommissioning, drawing on extensive plant troubleshooting experience to optimise start-up times and minimise production outages.

For established processing systems, BEC has vast experience of reviewing capacity and identifying bottlenecks using advanced software, compatible with clients’ own systems. This approach recommends practical solutions to optimise productivity. Other areas of expertise include Process Safety and Risk Management - everything from HAZOP/SIL, Quantitative Risk Assessment,

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Signed and sealed: the contract between BEC and Farabi Yanbu petrochemical complex is officially

ALL FOR ONE: BEC’s teamwork and partnership approach is key to its long-term partnerships with

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Saudi Aramco affiliates and the UK Department for International Trade, as well as its excellent staff

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Fire Certification and training in addition to technical support to enable engineering procurement construction contractors complete work packages on time.

Continued growth and recognition This flexibility and broad skills base was clearly demonstrated in BEC’s next growth phase.

2011 saw BEC start working directly with UK companies while embarking on local engineering support for clients in refining and upstream oil production globally. 2012 saw further major commissions from Sabic, Saudi Aramco and its affiliates, encompassing various services with a focus on engineering support for crude and refined product pipelines and complex in-plant debottlenecking.

BEC was officially recognised in 2013 by the UK Government for its growth and pioneering approach, with Irteza Piracha invited to 10 Downing Street to meet David Cameron, the 12th Prime Minister in the reign of HM Queen Elizabeth II, and George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer.

BEC’s drive for growth and global reach has continued to gather pace, while remaining true to its belief in people, offering them a long-term career opportunity, wherever in the world they are based.

The company’s owners are focused on bridging the gap between experienced engineers and new entrants to the sector, ensuring the vast well of accumulated knowledge is passed on.

The company still operates from its global HQ in Berkeley Square, with a dedicated engineering office in Reading. As well as three offices in Saudi Arabia – strategically located close to its clients at Rabigh, Yanbu and Khobar, where its team are managing multiple projects – BEC maintains permanent bases in India, Pakistan and South Korea, with presence in Nigeria and Kazakhstan.

The most recent addition to this list came earlier this year with the opening of an office in Muscat in the Sultanate of Oman, to support rapid growth for BEC in this market. The official opening was performed by Her Majesty’s Ambassador to

the Sultanate of Oman, His Excellency Hamish Cowell, and attended by numerous other Omani dignitaries and oil and gas sector decision-makers.

Irteza Piracha concludes: “Establishing a dedicated Oman office was a logical next step, given our strong pedigree in supporting major projects in the Gulf and continued growth of the Omani market. Providing local support remains integral to what we do and is a core reason why clients extend their partnership with BEC through major new contract awards.

“We’re delighted and grateful that our work has been recognised by the judges of The Queen’s Awards. We’re at a really exciting stage in our development and are now seeking investment partners to work with us and help take BEC to the next level.”

BERKELEY ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS 52 Berkeley Square, London, W1J 5BT Tel: +44 (0)20 7493 6167 • Fax: +44 (0)20 7495 8063 info@berkeleyeng.com • www.berkeleyeng.com

BEC team members including Mrs Tahira Piracha (3rd from right) pictured outside BEC’s London offices at 52 Berkeley Square with representatives from the Arab British Chamber of Commerce and UK Export Finance (UKEF), both of which have played an integral role in BEC’s growth and success.

BEC prides itself on being a truly diverse employer, offering a wealth of opportunities for colleagues across the globe to build a long-term career with the company

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: An international market leader in the bakery sector, with a brand portfolio including St Pierre, Baker Street and Paul Hollywood.

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Carrs Food International Ltd T/A St Pierre Groupe St Pierre Groupe has won a Queens Award for Enterprise in International Trade, which has been fuelled by major success in the states after being named the fastest growing bakery brand in the US. St Pierre Groupe - the international branded bakery business that recently rebranded from Carrs Foods - scooped the UK’s highest accolade for business success in export. St Pierre Groupe takes home the prize for its growth in overseas sales over the past three years; increasing annual international sales by 159% as a result of significant US growth.

Manchester-based St Pierre Groupe is an international market leader in the bakery sector with a brand portfolio that includes St Pierre, Baker Street and Paul Hollywood. The St Pierre brand is now the fastest growing bakery brand in the US. Founded by Jeremy Gilboy and Paul Baker, the company has a growing global presence, and now provides bakery products to the UK, US and Europe, with products sold in more than 35,000 stores worldwide.

Increasing international sales to 51% of revenue, St Pierre Groupe has already increased turnover to £69m in 2018. With over 150 bakery products selling in the UK, its export range now has more than 85 products, with 60% of its volume in the US. St Pierre Groupe’s turnover is forecast to more than double in the next three years, aiming to reach £150 million by 2022. delivers with British flair American the bakery entry and confi rm that it isand either passed PROOF “St OFPierre ENTRY INauthentic, THE European LOGO for an enhanced entry for press, or provide clear instructions consumers love our brand” says Paul Baker, founder of St Pierre Groupe. “The US is in the Index of Contributors QUEEN’S AWARD MAGAZINE if amendments areSt required.

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Carramore International Limited Carramore International Limited is headquartered in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, with an office in Kenya, and started trading in 1992. It operates as a buying and logistics supplier to the international medical and life science research community working in LMICs. It is currently working in more than 50 countries, with particular strengths in sub-Saharan Africa as well as Asia.

Its customers are focused on research, not the healthcare sector – but improving lives and reducing mortality is the primary The Carramore teams in the UK focus. Infectious diseases feature heavily, and Kenya including major global diseases such as TB, HIV, malaria and influenza, as well recent high-profile diseases such as Ebola and Zika.

The company supplies products for use across a wide range of scientific disciplines: Field-based specimen collection from humans, other animals and plants, as well as collecting the animals themselves. Laboratory disciplines include clinical chemistry and haematology, microbiology, parasitology and immunology, with molecular biology now featuring in many projects as the field advances so rapidly. Carramore supplies products from DNA extraction, through custom DNA oligonucleotides, to cuttingedge CRISPR gene editing.

As a consequence, it has developed a database with more than 1.2 million products, from thousands of suppliers. The products have complex cold

chain and hazard requirements, all within a highly regulated environment involving many licences and permits.

The company is an IATA cargo agent, working directly with the airlines making complex shipments through Manchester airport. Bulky shipments of consumables, on the other hand, are often shipped by sea.

Additionally, in many countries, Carramore also manages the destination customs clearance process, as well as final delivery, handling regulatory issues and maintenance of the cold chain.

Well-known customers include KEMRI-Wellcome Trust and the International Livestock Research Institute in Kenya; Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research in Ghana; the National Institute for Medical Research in Tanzania; the National Institutes of Health and Johns Hopkins University in the US; the University of Oxford, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Wellcome Sanger Institute in the UK. CARRAMORE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED Thongsbridge Mills, Miry Lane, Holmfirth, HD9 7RW Tel: +44 (0)1484 690444 • quotes@carramore.com • www.carramore.com

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Over the past six years the company has invested millions of pounds in its Coalville sites, building a new global headquarters and 3,000m2 technical centre. Equipped with state-of-the-art CNC machine tools and certified to ISO9001:2015, the technical centre has increased in-house quality control and helped maximise serviceentry performance. A new 6,000m2 global parts LOGO for an enhanced centre is due to open in mid-2019. in the Index of Contributors The success is due to the hard work of its winning team, significant growth If you have also ordered an enhanced entry to in stock inventory, and continual development of its product range. This be placed in the Index of Contributors, then a prestigious award will further enhance its reputation around the world. proof of your logo is shown here on the right.

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Clarendon Specialty Fasteners Ltd Clarendon Specialty Fasteners Ltd wins the Queen’s Award for International Trade for Outstanding Short Term Growth. Established in 1991, and with three locations in the UK, Clarendon Specialty Fasteners is a market leading supplier of fasteners, components and hardware for the aerospace, defence, industrial and motorsport sectors.

Clarendon is one of 201 organisations nationally to be recognised with a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise. Announced in April 2019, Clarendon has been recognised for its excellence in International Trade.

Clarendon’s highly differentiated offering is centred on the supply of aerospace and commercial fasteners, slides, couplings and related products, combined with the internal design and manufacturing of customised innovative fastening solutions. It is a critical supplier to its worldwide customer base, which includes a number of major international OEM companies.

Clarendon has achieved rapid growth in overseas sales, with export sales increasing from £3.6 million in 2016 to £6.4 million in 2017, and £8.6 million in 2018, representing a total increase of 140% over the three year cycle. The top export markets are Italy, France, Germany, South Africa and Thailand.

Clarendon plans to continue on its growth trajectory and achieve substantial further increases in export sales. It is already in the process of establishing physical locations in Germany, Thailand and the US to further develop strong relationships with customers in these geographies.

“We are honoured to receive the Queen’s Award for International Trade, and it serves as a testament to all our employees – without their sheer determination and hard work, we would not be in this position today,“ says John Hunt, Managing

Director of Clarendon Specialty Fasteners.

Paul Sanders, Sales Director of Clarendon Specialty Fasteners, says “This award comes at an exciting time for Clarendon as we extend our global footprint into new markets, and is the UK’s highest accolade for business.”

CLARENDON SPECIALTY FASTENERS LTD 2 Lydiard Fields, Great Western Way, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN5 8UB • Tel: +44 (0)1793 439146 sales@clarendonsf.com • www.clarendonsf.com

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Combined Chemical Services UK Located in Warrington, Combined Chemical Services (UK) Ltd was established in 2008, and is now a global supplier of speciality chemical raw materials and formulated products. It offers customers a high quality of products and services on a bespoke basis, gaining a great reputation with its clients, both large and small, who now use the company as their preferred supply partner.

It provides chemical solutions to James Marshall, Managing Director of countries including the US, Germany, Combined Chemical Services (UK) Ltd Italy, Singapore and Australia.

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Cyden Ltd Cyden Ltd designs, manufactures and distributes Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) hair removal devices for use in the home.

Commencing trading in 2002, after originally making professional-grade devices for use in salons, Cyden Ltd has since made significant progress in addressing the high growth home beauty sector globally.

From its base in Swansea, South Wales, Cyden Ltd now distributes to 30 international markets and has set up a subsidiary in Tokyo, Japan. Overseas revenue grew by over 560% to £28.5m over the past three years, with the top performing overseas markets including China, Japan and Australia.

CEO Giles Davies says: “The market for home-use beauty

From its base in Swansea, Cyden Ltd distributes to 30 international markets

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devices is growing rapidly and consumer demand for the product is universal despite cultural differences.

Our strong growth is due to the unique partnerships we’ve forged in global markets and the strength of our product offering. As a company we will continue to invest strongly in these areas to ensure this trend continues.”

Cyden has taken a leading position in key global markets by consistently producing the safest and most powerful IPL devices. The company’s ambition is to become a global leader in the IPL hair removal market and expand its product offering into adjacent categories.

All manufacturing capability is currently being transferred into Cyden’s own facility, based in Swansea, to help monitor quality and to further reduce lead times, which is crucial in allowing the company to react quickly to increased demand in the market.

Cyden wins the Queen’s Award for International Trade for Outstanding Short-Term Growth in overseas sales over the past three years.

CYDEN LTD Office Block A, Bay Studios Business Park, Fabian Way, Swansea, SA1 8QB Tel: 01792 274009 • www.cyden.com

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: Manufacturer of quality water-based colour concentrates used in inkjet inks to digitally print textiles and other materials.

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Diamond Dispersions Ltd Sheffield-based Diamond Dispersions manufactures exceptional quality water-based pigment dispersions and disperse dye dispersions for the global inkjet ink market. Pigments and disperse dyes are the coloured components in an ink and, making a stable, liquid dispersion from these powders is the most difficult part of making an ink.

The team mill pigments and disperse dyes down to the nanometric scale and keep the particles stable as a suspension in water for up to two years.

These high-performance dispersions are used by multinational brands, mainly for digitally printing textiles.

Founded in 2007, Diamond Dispersions exports products to more than 20 countries around the globe. In 2016, the company was acquired by Lubrizol, an acquisition that was valuable to both companies, as Lubrizol offers world leading dispersant technologies and a global sales infrastructure – while Diamond Dispersions brings a wealth of dispersion manufacturing know-how.

Explains Andrew Grantham, Marketing Manager of Diamond Dispersions: “We have responded effectively to the rapidly growing digital print market by supporting customers as they seek to deliver customisation, shorter print runs, just-in-time manufacturing and a desire for reduced stocks and wastage.

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Dotmatics Dotmatics was founded in 2005 by its current directors, Stephen Gallagher and Alastair Hill, with a mission to give scientists access to all of their data, all of the time. It typically takes 10-15 years and $2.6bn to bring a new drug to market; developing technology that supports scientists in accelerating this process is a key challenge for the pharmaceutical industry.

Recognising there was a growing need in scientific discovery for solutions that helped manage large volumes of data, Stephen and Alastair developed a unique capability allowing scientists to access all relevant data in one place.

Dotmatics’ solutions help science organisations meet the challenges of the information age, allowing scientists to capture, analyse and visualise data in a collaborative environment.

Dotmatics’ solutions are part of the thriving UK biotech ecosystem, which is recognised for its expertise all over the world. The company is a firm believer in collaboration, partnering with several international organisations to help move the whole industry forwards. From its UK beginnings, it has grown its global reach year on year. Overseas sales have increased 375% and exports have risen from 69% to 85%.

Dotmatics’ customers come from all over the world, with its main markets being the USA, Switzerland, Germany, Japan and Italy. Dotmatics has opened offices in San Diego, Boston, Seoul, Tokyo and Melbourne to serve its global customer base.

As a result of this significant global growth, Dotmatics receives the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2019.

Stephen and Alastair comment: “We are thrilled to be honoured

The company’s owners and founders, Alastair and Stephen, outside Dotmatics’ global HQ in Bishop’s Stortford

with this Award and are extremely grateful to our brilliant staff and customers for making it possible!”

DOTMATICS LTD The Old Monastery, Windhill, Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, CM23 2ND • Tel: +44 (0)1279 654123 Fax: +44 (0)1279 653088 • info@dotmatics.com www.dotmatics.com

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: DK Engineering encompasses all aspects of classic and historic car ownership, from sales and award-winning restorations, through to race preparation and storage.

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Founded in 1977, DK borrows the initials of the christian names of David and Kate Cottingham.

The husband and wife team formed the company out of a passion for the ownership and competition participation of period sports cars; today the business encompasses all aspects of classic, historic and modern Ferrari car ownership, from sales, acquisitions and award-winning restorations, through routine servicing to race preparation and storage. DK has now grown annually to a full-time staff base of over 40 in 2019.

DK Engineering is the world leading independent Ferrari specialist, and the sole UK business to be able to offer a complete range of services.

Based in Chorleywood, just outside London at the north-westerly tip of the M25, the company’s imaginatively modernised Victorian Farm site offers both convenience and discretion. Little Green Street Farm is home to its service and restoration facilities, logistics and sales businesses.

Its storage facility, a mere four miles away, allows its vast network of worldwide clientele the ability to keep cars within the United Kingdom and utilise the company’s services.

DK’s workshops include separate servicing and restoration departments, a machine shop for the in-house manufacture of small parts, a rolling road dynamometer and dedicated engine shop. They benefit from up to date software and diagnostic equipment for modern Ferrari and Maserati models too. Comprehensive restorations can take up to three years to complete, with cars only leaving the site for bodywork, paint and trimming.

Its experienced staff, some of whom are Ferrarifactory trained, have a wide range of skills and knowledge; many continuing in their father’s footsteps – despite the increasing dominance of robotic automation. DK has the talent required to deliver its customers’ every request, be that preparing and supporting championship winning race cars at circuits all over the world, or delivering

David and Kate Cottingham at their Watford workshop in 1986

Today, the finest Ferraris are maintained, restored, acquired and sold by DK Engineering

concours-winning restorations to the most meticulous collectors.

A family business to this day, both David and Kate remain very active in the business. The sales department is now headed by youngest son James, who continues to push boundaries in helping to both source and supply some of the rarest and historically significant motor vehicles in existence. With over 30 sales cars on site at any one time and a global network of contacts, if you are looking for something special, DK can source it.

The logistics and maintenance team, run by eldest son Justin, ensures the safe movement and delivery of vehicles, parts and staff between storage and servicing, race meetings and motoring events throughout the calendar. Optimising these workflows allows DK to deliver awardwinning work to the tightest of deadlines without compromising on quality.

Internationally renowned for a multitude of concours-winning restorations of significant Ferraris, DK has been fortunate to supply both cars and services to a list of important clients, including globally esteemed car collectors as well as British and Middle Eastern royal families.

Such is the unrivalled execution of its work, overseen by David’s unfaltering, meticulous attention to detail, DK has proudly completed work on numerous cars of worldwide historical importance, many having been brought to the UK specifically for work by ourselves.

If you’d like to make an appointment to come and visit, please call the team on 01923 287687 or visit www.dke.co.uk for more information.

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: Design Automation, Product Configurator and Business Process Automation Software for Manufacturing.

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DriveWorks Companies using DriveWorks embed their own knowledge, rules and business logic in to the software to set up their own solutions that can be used anywhere and on any device.

Once an order is placed, accurate quotes, sales documents and all the manufacturing drawings and data are also automatically generated by DriveWorks software.

Worldwide network

Companies using DriveWorks range from SMEs to multi-nationals and globally recognised brands.

DriveWorks has established a worldwide network of over 100 Value Added Resellers who provide local sales, training and support.

The DriveWorks team support the channel with regular visits, training and marketing materials to ensure consistent quality.

The DriveWorks team at their corporate headquarters in Cheshire

DriveWorks Ltd is a double Queen’s Award winner this year, recognised for Innovation and International Trade. DriveWorks have established an international reseller network to sell and support its design and business process automation software worldwide.

Customisation and personalisation drive sales

Selling customisable products is extremely popular in the consumer markets – and DriveWorks, with its rules-based software, has now made this a reality for the business

to business world of manufacturing too.

DriveWorks opens up new opportunities and new markets for businesses large and small.

The technology enables sales and engineering teams to work together more effectively, and the end result is a highly visual and interactive online configurator or automated business process.

Competing in a global marketplace

Digital technologies, Industry 4.0 and e-commerce are driving today’s business strategies. The benefits that DriveWorks brings are at the heart of this digital transformation.

DriveWorks’ configurator examples, and automatically created documents

DriveWorks’ annual technical training event

Continuous innovation

Each year, DriveWorks provide updates and a new release of the core software. In addition to the firm’s own research and development, the latest version always includes enhancements suggested by the many hundreds of users worldwide who use the software day in day out.

DriveWorks’ ongoing commitment to innovation ensures it remains a market leader in CPQ and design automation for manufacturing software, year after year.

“Our team is proud and honoured to receive these Queen’s Awards,” says CEO Glen Smith.

“The award for International Trade is fantastic recognition of the amazing relationships we have built across the world with our resellers and customers. We are pleased to be making a significant contribution to the business economy.”

DRIVEWORKS LTD The Barley Store, Laskey Lane, Thelwall, Cheshire, WA4 2TF • Tel: +44 (0)1925 757585 sales@driveworks.co.uk www.driveworks.co.uk

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: EasySkinz produces skins that allow people to update the look of their portable electronic devices and add all-around protection

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The mobile phone customisation experts at British firm EASYSKINZ have been honoured with a 2019 Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade.

The company, founded in 2014, produces smartphone skins that allow people to update the look of their mobile phones with a close-fitting covering – adding colour and a fresh new look, as well as extra protection. Its products are precision-cut to perfectly fit the dimensions of any device, including curved edges, buttons, cameras and ports.

The brand has become one of the most recognisable skin makers, delivering its one-of-a-kind products to more than 140 countries. EasySkinz is also increasingly recognised for the proud contribution the firm makes to British commerce, as it’s one of few manufacturers of electronic device accessories whose production base is in the UK. The managing directors, Mrs Iveta Totocheva, Mr Angel Totochev, Mr Hristo Totochev and Mr Mario Totochev, explain: “We’re incredibly proud that we have been awarded a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade – it’s a real honour.

“At EasySkinz, we take care of the whole production process, from tailoring the design and manufacturing our skins in our own factory in the UK, to packaging and sending them to our customers all around the world. This award recognises our ability to turn our precisely designed skins into a global success and, at the same time, offer a first-class experience for everyone.”

EasySkinz sells the skins direct to consumers through the company’s official website easyskinz.com, and has strong sales in the US, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Asia.

The company offers the world’s widest selection of skins and wraps with an impressive range of designs, textures, colours and supported devices. The company is family-owned and equally managed by the four family members.

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Emberson Group Ltd

Some members of the Emberson team (L-R): Sam Wise, Alison Graham, Claire Bridges, Clare Pratt (Group MD), and Alex Hudd

Emberson is an independent, employeeowned group of brand, marketing and lead generation agencies. From the outset in 2010, its mission has been to make a notable impact to its customers’ performance and profits – and today the team work across three continents.

Emberson Group has three agencies, each focusing on a specialist area, helping its customers brand, market and sell their services and products: Emberson Brand specialises in brand strategy, identity design and value messaging.

Emberson Marketing specialises in the creation and delivery of highly-effective marketing communications.

Emberson LeadGen specialises in managed lead generation, email campaigns and GDPR compliance.

Customers can choose to work with one or all of the agencies, depending on where they are on their marketing and sales journey. Emberson Group offers a truly integrated offer that reaches

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all the way from brand naming and positioning to generating qualified sales leads. Each business can be as nimble and responsive as customers need, thanks to the shorthand built up by the Emberson team over many years of working together and how they embrace the digital way of working. They’re free to work where and when they choose to work, enabled by their digital business framework.

Export strategy

Emberson principally works for B2B technology companies who operate on a global scale, including some of the most established technology leaders and youngest innovative start-ups in the world. The team’s knowledge of how to position companies, whether large or small, to infiltrate global markets, create brand belief through marketing communications and generate leads that comply with international data privacy regulations, has been key to the success of its export strategy.

As a result, Emberson is now a market leader in making a measurable impact to customers’ sales performance: its international customers increasingly want British creativity, leadership and integrity to help deliver their objectives.

Due to this strategy, Emberson has enjoyed year-on-year growth over the past three years and has recorded a 72% increase in overseas sales since 2016. Today, overseas sales represent 69% of the group’s total sales.

Clare Pratt, Group Managing Director says: “Our aim is to help our customers succeed faster. We are achieving this aim due to two reasons. The first is through our proposition of Brand, Market, Sell: we are helping customers quickly realise their return on marketing investment.

“The second reason is because of our people.

They are more than employees – they’re owners.

This means that we all go above and beyond to

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create and deliver world-class brand, marketing and lead generation services for our customers.

We are creating a sustainable group of companies, which benefits all of our stakeholders, now and in the future: our customers, our supply partners, our wider communities and our shareholders.

“We feel that our British values of creativity, leadership and integrity, combined with tremendous hard work from our teams, have set us up for success in a global marketplace.

“We are privileged to be working for some of the most successful, pioneering companies in the world and are delighted that our place in the international market has been acknowledged by the Queen’s Award for International Trade.”

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Element 1 Engineering trades under the brand name Eventuri. The company designs, engineers and manufactures bespoke car intake systems to replace the standard airbox setup from factory.

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Foilco The Foilco team are extremely proud to have been awarded their first Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade.

With over 30 years of best practice in stamping foils, Foilco strives to inspire the use of the most varied and diverse range of stamping foils in the industry. Its genuine aim is to keep hot stamping foils as relevant and impactful as possible.

Foilco achieves this through industry-leading educational programmes, design events, the highest level of technical support and a continued dedication to developing new colours, patterns and themes. Its team endeavours to remove the restrictions to creativity to open up the freedom of choice and individualism when considering stamping foils.

Stamping foil creates the brightest metallic finish in printing. Its main applications are on whisky labels, perfume bottles, book covers, greeting cards and even wheelie bins. It is used by everyone, every day, but most people wouldn’t even realise what it is.

Working alongside the industries print fraternity, Foilco has developed the largest and most robust catalogue of technical grades, which work on almost every type of application.

An eco-conscious company, Foilco supplies and supports the luxury product markets, FMCG packaging sector, label makers and graphic arts community.

Employing 36 people, Foilco was set up in 1987 and has been supplying stamping foil to the print industry ever since. Foilco has distributors strategically located in seven countries around the world, shipping goods from the north west to over 2,000 businesses and printers annually across the globe.

“We were recommended to enter this award by the Department for International Trade due to the great strides we have made into exporting to new international markets in recent years,” says Paul Hornby, Foilco’s Managing Director.

Satin gold stamping foils are a winner in luxury markets

“This award is a tribute to the hard work the Foilco team put in to ensuring we give our customers the best possible products alongside an unrivalled level of service. Foilco will be shouting proudly about this amazing achievement, using it as a tool to help us expand even further into international markets.”

FOILCO LTD Enterprise Way, Lowton St Mary’s, Warrington, Cheshire, WA3 2BP Tel: +44 (0)1942262622 hello@foilco.com • Web: www.foilco.com

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: Firesafe Fire Rated Ductwork Limited is a British originator and licensor of specialist non-coated fire resisting ductwork systems.

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Firesafe Fire Rated Ductwork Limited FIRESAFE FIRE RATED DUCTWORK LIMITED (FFRDL) is both delighted and honoured to receive a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade to mark six years of Outstanding Continuous Growth in overseas sales. Established in 2006, it is a member of the family-owned and operated Caswell Group, which this year celebrates its 50th anniversary.

FFRDL is a specialist in fire-resisting ductwork systems. CASWELL FIRESAFE®, its range of noncoated fire-resisting ductwork, is the culmination of innovative British design, engineering expertise and years of development. Extensively tested to UK and European Standards, it is also third-party certified by Warrington Certifire, Applus+ and Underwriters Laboratories.

CASWELL FIRESAFE® is designed to prevent the spread of fire and smoke through a building.

Applications include extraction, pressurisation and passive smoke control systems; dual purpose ventilation and commercial kitchen extract systems.

The FFRDL business model is to engage established, quality partners to manufacture, install and certify CASWELL FIRESAFE® systems under licence. This provides many benefits, principal of which is the kudos in offering a British-designed product allied to cost-effective manufacture and timely local supply. Specialist, branded sealant and gasket ancillaries are also directly exported by FFRDL from the UK for use in the manufacturing and installation processes.

The success of the business model relies on the outstanding calibre of its manufacturing partners and enterprising spirit of all concerned.

Its current network serves global construction markets in the United Kingdom, Eire, United

Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and the USA. To date, CASWELL FIRESAFE® systems have been installed in over 500 prestigious international projects including Abu Dhabi International and Muscat International airports; Presidential Palace and Louvre, Abu Dhabi; MGM Grand Macau; Hong Kong International Exhibition Centre and Eircom HQ Dublin.

Mark Harrison, Commercial Director, explains: “A key success factor is the quality of the ongoing relationship that we have with our licensed partners.

Presidential Palace, Abu Dhabi. Partner: Seagull (HVAC) Industry LLC

MGM Grand, Macau. Partner: Centalink International (Macau) Ltd

CASWELL FIRESAFE® product has been successfully tested to BS 476 : Part 24 and EN 1366 : Parts 1 & 8. It is manufactured, installed & certified by our trusted partners around the globe.

FFRDL team (L-R) : Charles Coxen, Louise Coxen, Richard Coxen, Darren Webster, Mark Harrison, Linda Manning, Robert Coxen, Carolyn Branagan and Mark Elliott, offer a wealth of experience and expertise.

We would like to thank them all, as without them this Queen’s Award would not have been possible.”

Mark adds “Our fundamental value proposition is market-leading product allied to best-in-class, specialist technical knowledge. We are fully engaged within the passive fire protection and ductwork industries. Active membership of all relevant trade associations places us in the vanguard of industry developments.”

FFRDL is committed to driving improvements in product standards. A key tenet of its ethos is to educate. It is a CIBSE (Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers) Approved CPD programme provider and presents to building services professionals both in the UK and internationally. This strengthens and extends the reach of the core message: ‘Quality, safety and innovation’.

With a mission ‘To become the World’s leading fire-resisting ductwork brand through product excellence and first-class customer service’, the team relish exploring new opportunities and interacting with different cultures around the globe. This goes far beyond financial success; it is the personal fulfilment every team member derives from developing something truly special.

“We are extremely proud to have been recognised with this Queen’s Award. It reflects the quality and dedication of our staff and how they engage with our partners to deliver our dynamic growth,” says Chairman, Richard Coxen. “We are sure that this royal endorsement of our business will act as a springboard to future success.”

FIRESAFE FIRE RATED DUCTWORK LTD Knowsley Road Industrial Estate, Knowsley Road, Haslingden, Rossendale, Lancashire, BB4 4RR Tel: +44 (0)1706 227935 enquiries@firesafeductwork.co.uk www.firesafeductwork.co.uk F Firesafe Fire Rated Ductwork

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: Foregenix are cybersecurity experts specialising in digital forensics, incident response, PCI compliance and solutions that tangibly reduce risk.

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Foregenix has developed cyber threat detection and prevention solutions that help organisations across the world to defend their business systems and data through early detection and mitigation of cyber attacks. This service is powered by proprietary technology and managed by a team of highly skilled Threat Intelligence Analysts distributed across the globe. payment industry’s newest standard, Point-to-Point outside investment, but with the skills, passion and Foregenix’ Digital Forensics and Incident Response Encryption (P2PE), and completed compliance determination of its team.

(DFIR) team as well as their Compliance and Risk validations for almost half of the world’s P2PE Co-founder Benjamin Hosack says: ‘We would like thewidely entry and confirm that it is teams internationally renowned and projects ineither 2018, passed including Africa’s first validated P2PE to thank our team, suppliers, clients, the judges and PROOF OFare ENTRY IN THE LOGO for an enhanced entry for press, or providepayment clear instructions regarded as leaders within their respective industry system. everyone at the awards for making this all possible. It QUEEN’S AWARD MAGAZINE in the Index of Contributors if amendments are required. You are very verticals. They are also frequent public speakers at The business is celebrating its 10th anniversary this is a tremendous honour.’ welcome to email your comments to us at We have produced the following editorial to the If you have also ordered an enhanced entry to global cyber security conferences. year and is growing rapidly. The Foregenix family has ian.blaza@queensawardsmagazine.com best of our understanding of your requirements, be placed in the Index of Contributors, then a serves you a global client base,(this providing a grown from 20 in 2014 100of employees today, FOREGENIX is our preferred option) or else you can to over and using theThe textteam & materials have kindly proof your logo is shown here on the right. range of services from care security testing, call compliance and has opened offices around thethat, world, its reasons, 8-9the High Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 1AA us on 01536 520654. supplied to us. Would you please to check Note for with technical sizeStreet, of assessments, guidance and advice through to DFIR headquarters in Marlborough, Wiltshire, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 845 309 6232 • info@foregenix.com entry in the printed product may vary slightly Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: services. The team isToday the world lead adviseris for the Foregenix’s havefrom beenthat achieved without sales@foregenix.com • www.foregenix.com shown here.

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Guildhawk Guildhawk (Formerly Today Translations) is a privately-owned British language services consultancy that was founded in 2001, with its headquarters in the City of London, hubs in Sheffield, Lithuania and staff across the globe.

The Queen’s Award coincides with the launch of our new name; Guildhawk.

The name and a personal story reflects the heritage, scope and intricacy of the Jurga Zilinskiene CEO & founder of Guildhawk

work it provides, which far exceeds the boundaries of traditional ‘translation’.

Specialising in Language Consultancy and fully project-managed services for clients that trade on the international stage, the Company coordinates everything from voice-over and translations for films and exams to multilingual due diligence, translingual analysis and conference interpreting.

The first language consultancy in the world to earn ISO 27001 certification for information security, the company works with clients who value strong ethical business practices and are GDPR-ready.

This, and the emphasis on human linguists, developing young people and innovating new assistive technologies, has seen over 40% of trade coming from overseas.

By offering diverse services, such as lease abstraction, AMLiss™, emoji research and multilingual e-discovery, the company helps clients win customers in overseas markets, engage worldwide audiences, and minimise risk in complex global supply chains.

The founder and CEO Jurga Zilinskiene says: “The Queen’s Award is a testament to our wonderful team. Their devotion to their art and intense desire to help clients succeed comes from the heart. We’re honoured to have so many great clients who see the added value our people and certified systems bring to their business. Our job is to help people to be trusted in any language, and I thank all our clients who trust us every day and made this award happen.”

GUILDHAWK 13-14 King Street, London EC2V 8EA • Tel: 0207 397 2770 info@guildhawk.com • www.guildhawk.com

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: A contract research organisation specialising in the early clinical trials of potential new medicines for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies worldwide.

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HMR Ltd Hammersmith Medicines Research Ltd, trading as HMR Ltd, is a contract research organisation, specialising in the early clinical trials of potential new medicines for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies worldwide.

We began in 1993 at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in central London, moved to the Central Middlesex Hospital (CMH), in north west London, in 1994, and then to our own premises near CMH in 2008.

Last year was our 25th anniversary, and we’ve grown from a start-up company to become the largest company of its kind in the UK and one of the largest in Europe, with 145 beds, an on-site laboratory and pharmacy, and 270 staff, including doctors, nurses, pharmacists, biomedical scientists, statisticians, data managers, project managers and support staff.

HMR works 24/7 throughout the year, just like a hospital. Many of our staff are long-serving and loyal to the company. Almost all of our middle and senior managers have been promoted from within the company.

Our London premises has 145 beds

Over the years, we’ve trained many young life-science graduates and postgraduates in their first real job, and helped them start a career in medicines research. We teach and provide work experience for life-science students from Queen Mary University of London and King’s College, London.

Medicines research, especially early clinical trials, is highly regulated, because the risk to the healthy subjects or patients who take part in them must be minimal if there is no therapeutic benefit.

We need approval from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and a research ethics committee before we can even start a trial.

We must also keep to the demanding standards of Good Clinical Practice, Good Manufacturing Practice, and many other standards, for which the company is accredited. We’re also inspected and audited frequently, and are covered by our ISO 9001 quality management system.

Early clinical trials, especially first-in-human

First-in-human clinical trial in full flow

trials, are an important milestone in the successful development of new medicines. We can provide a full service for such trials, from design to report, for most types of new medicine and clinical trial.

Since 1993, we’ve done 850 trials for more than 200 companies in 22 countries worldwide, including all of the top 15 international pharmaceutical companies by revenue.

The discovery of new medicines has changed hugely in recent years. They now come mostly from small- to medium-sized companies, start-up companies and universities, rather than from the large international companies. Many more new types of medicines are being developed, and we have an excellent reputation for completing early clinical trials to a high standard.

We attract business just by word of mouth and recommendation. As a company we’ve neither

Founder members of HMR at our 25th anniversary party in 2018

Percentage share by country of early clinical trials since 1993

borrowed nor sought investors, and have grown solely by reinvesting profits.

In 2006, together with Sir James Black (a Nobel Laureate for inventing beta blockers to treat heart disease, and histamine blockers to treat stomach ulcers), we founded our own pharmaceutical company, Trio Medicines Ltd, to develop netazepide, a gastrin receptor blocker for treating stomach tumours and gastric acid-related conditions. Since then, Trio has started three other projects. To date, HMR has funded and carried out all of Trio’s early clinical trials.

Along the way, we’ve won the Queen’s Award for Exports in 1998, and the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in 2002. To win the Queen’s Award for International Trade in 2019, our third such award, is a credit to our hard working staff, past and present, and a remarkable achievement.

HMR LTD Cumberland Avenue, London, NW10 7EW Tel: +44 (0)20 8961 4130 • Fax: +44 (0)20 8961 8665 hmr@hmrlondon.com • www.hmrlondon.com

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: A world-leading commercial and domestic heating solutions manufacturer.

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Ideal Boilers Leading heating solutions manufacturer IDEAL BOILERS has been honoured with a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise, in recognition of its outstanding achievements in International Trade.

As the only boiler manufacturer that designs, develops and manufactures all of its products in the UK, Ideal’s products have become renowned for energy efficiency, reliability and simplicity of use – recognised in 2013 when the business won its first Queen’s Award for Enterprise, this time in the ‘Innovation’ category.

The past six years have seen a continued commitment to innovation through the evolution of the Ideal Production Process (IPP), which eliminates potential faults during manufacture, and therefore minimises disruption for customers caused by boiler breakdowns.

During assembly, each boiler must pass 200 quality standard checks, to prevent mistakes being passed from one stage of production to the next. Bluetooth camera technology automatically follows the operator’s every move to check each task has been completed accurately. To increase employee engagement with the process, each individual boiler is assembled by one person from start to finish.

When it comes to testing the assembled products, Ideal Boilers has successfully invented a new way of using compressed air to mimic the operation of water and gas. Combined with the use of robotic cameras to test every single point on the boiler, this process is energy efficient and 100% accurate, to ensure every product sent onto packaging and dispatch is perfect.

The success of the IPP means that boiler warranties have been extended to 12 years, and are built into the price of the appliance, to give customers extra peace of mind at almost zero cost.

Since the implementation of the new IPP, call-out rates to repair broken Ideal Boilers have halved.

Improvements in energy efficiency and reliability have set Ideal Boilers apart from the competition, both in the UK and further afield.

High levels of energy efficiency and reliability set Ideal Boilers apart

Ideal Boilers has won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise, in the category of International Trade

The Logic System IE is the most popular domestic boiler in Ireland, where Ideal Boilers has 40% market share.

Products are adapted for export. This, for example, has seen boilers designed to be installed on balconies successfully drive sales in Italy.

Further products have been developed specifically in response to demand from overseas, such as renewable energy air-source heat pumps.

Export is a dynamic area of growth for the business, which applies the lessons learned in one territory to its strategy in others.

Other markets where notable successes have been achieved – in both domestic and commercial sales – are Turkey and Spain.

Shaun Edwards, CEO at Ideal Boilers, says:

“Innovation, quality and value are our founding principles, and our Queen’s Award win in the category of International Trade is testament to the way we live and breathe these principles.

“We’ve been providing the best quality boilers to our customers for over 100 years, continually working to meet their ever-evolving heating needs. We’re proud to be leading the industry in setting new standards and challenging technological boundaries, building on our rich heritage as we look to the future.”

IDEAL BOILERS LIMITED Ideal Boilers, National Avenue, Hull, East Yorkshire, HU5 4JB • Tel: +44 (0)1482 492251 enquiries@idealboilers.com • www.idealboilers.com

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Haybury Brighton-based Executive Search firm Haybury has been awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for outstanding contribution to international trade for the second time, having won its first Queen’s Award back in 2016.

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John Martin Design Associates Ltd (JMDA) The team at JMDA Design are delighted to announce that they are winners of the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2019 for International Trade.

Honoured to be recognised for their outstanding contribution to child car seat safety globally, The team at JMDA Design winning a Queen’s Award for JMDA Design is the pinnacle of the past 28 years of innovative product design, which has resulted in over 95 car seats having been designed by the company to date.

Building a strong reputation for designing child car seats that strive to increase safety and reduce serious injury in road traffic accidents has enabled JMDA Design to become a global leader in the Child Restraint System (CRS) industry. Demonstrating impressive growth over the past three years, award winning product design agency JMDA Design has offices in Worcestershire Shanghai (China) and Badia Polesine (Italy).

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Home Health UK Ltd Based in Bushey, Hertfordshire, HOME HEALTH (UK) was set up more than 20 years ago as a result of the early death of the CEO’s best friend from pancreatic cancer, a disease that is difficult to diagnose early.

The long-term aim of the company is to provide a full package, from extensive free health information via the internet and self-testing/early diagnosis at home, right through to professional medical consultation, prescribing, dispensing and shipping of treatments – from relatively simple solutions, such as UTI infections, right through to more serious diseases, including cancer.

The company specialises in rapid IVD tests that can be carried out at home or in a doctor’s surgery, giving immediate results. IVD stands for In-Vitro Diagnostics and simply means the tests are carried out using samples from the body, such as urine or blood.

The original technology for rapid diagnostics was invented in the UK almost 50 years ago. This technology is now free of most patents and has led to the explosion in the development of rapid tests, covering everything from anaemia to Zica – and the tests can cost as little as 1-2p each.

Today, Home Health sells more than 20 million of these simple diagnostic tests every year, with

Home Health UK Ltd’s One Step brand offers about half being sold overseas. simple, finger-prick, New targeted tests are being instant result tests introduced regularly and, in 2019, under the company’s One Step brand name, simple finger-prick, instant result tests for GPs are helping to monitor some cancers, including common versions of medicine to be supplied at the same time, direct to pancreatic, ovarian and breast cancer. any end user, anywhere in the world, and shipped Home Health was set up with the internet to them for under £10. The problem is the people very much in mind for both the UK and overseas. who need it most can’t afford it – but one day…

The small size of the test (which fits in a small envelope), makes it ideal to be sold online as it HOME HEALTH UK LTD will fit through the letterbox.

Unit A, Greatham Road Industrial Estate, Bushey, In the near-term, Home Health has developed Hertfordshire, WD23 2NZ • Tel: +44 (0)1923 711511 • a model that allows the diagnosis of the four info@homehealth-uk.com main types of malaria, and the preventative www.homehealth-uk.com

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Kirk Process Solutions Limited Kirk Process Solutions Ltd (KPSL) is an engineering and manufacturing business specialising in cyclone technology for cleaning natural gas.

KPSL is delighted to have won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for International Trade, recognising the exceptional growth in its exports during the past three years. Its customers and end users are mainly in the oil and gas and petrochemicals sectors, and its products are installed at their sites in North and South America, Europe, Russia, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Australia.

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Markes International Ltd Markes International is the leading manufacturer of scientific equipment for the extraction and detection of low-level organic chemicals in air, solids and liquids, and the company is delighted to have its continued growth in overseas business recognised by a Queen’s Award for International Trade.

Markes has been at the Markes International’s equipment is used for forefront of innovation in high-precision chemical analysis, primarily in the analytical instrumentation environmental, food and materials sectors for over 20 years, and recent years have seen outstanding growth in overseas sales, to the extent that today it has customers in over 60 countries, including major industry, government agencies, academia and the service laboratory sector.

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Language Insight Ltd LANGUAGE INSIGHT has undergone significant growth over the years to become one of the UK’s most trusted language services partners, specialising in transcription, translation and interpreting for a wide range of sectors and industries. It is one of very few language service providers to be globally accredited for Quality Assurance (ISO 9001), Information Security (ISO 27001), and Translation Services (ISO 17100).

The company has achieved this success through dedication, hard work and a concentrated team effort to continue delivering the highest quality of service in partnership with its clients, time after time. While the business continues to attract and win new clients, the team’s focus on retaining clients Some of the Language Insight team at their head office and delivering unbeatable quality and performance is demonstrated with less than 0.05% client loss.

The team at Language Insight attribute the Other specialist growth areas include digital marketing services, reasons for their growth to their core values website translation and transcreation. of honesty, ownership, diversity, empathy and Managing Director, Donna Twose, explains: “The Queens Award is Donna & Gavin Twose (MD and Ops Director) collaboration, as these factor in their internal as a result of team effort, and an impressive management team, culture and extend to how they build their client driven by the core values of the business. It is an incredibly exciting relationships. They pride themselves on integrity of business ethics, fair pricing, time for the business ahead, with the award coming just in time for our 10th responsive communication and also a significant in-house ability for quality year anniversary celebrations. assurance. This is delivered by their project management teams, while working across multiple time zones to provide service during regional working hours.

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: A speciality chemicals manufacturer, Leverton Lithium has more than 40 years’ experience in lithium-based chemistry.

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Leverton Lithium Speciality chemicals manufacturer Leverton Lithium is delighted and honoured to be a recipient of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade, five years after winning its first award.

With more than 40 years of experience in lithium-based chemistry, it’s the only UK company, and one of only a handful of companies operating globally, in this exciting growth market.

As a smaller business in a sector dominated by large international corporates, the team have spent much of the five years since their first Queen’s Award developing and introducing new products to match market trends. This has brought about a real focus on customer-led delivery requirements and expectations.

With the use of advanced laboratory and manufacturing techniques, together with significant investment in cutting-edge research and development, the company has built an outstanding reputation in the industry for innovation and customer care, allied to an unrivalled speed of response.

The team take great care to manage the demands of all stakeholders in the business, and take seriously their responsibilities to ensure they exceed all environmental, quality, health and safety and other regulatory standards that are placed on them.

Lithium plays a significant role in our everyday lives, with a wide range of applications covering medicine, ceramics, as an additive in cement and greases and, of course, an ever-increasing use in lithium-ion batteries for energy storage and propulsion units.

From smartphones, household appliances and electric vehicles to commercial shipping and aircraft, the demand for lithium-powered batteries is forecast to grow exponentially over the next ten years. In recent years, Leverton has spent considerable time and money on research and development projects to produce battery grade materials for use in the cathode and electrolyte elements of lithium-ion batteries.

Its team are therefore confident the business is well placed to take advantage of the forecasted growth in battery grade lithium materials.

To support the growing demand for lithium chemicals across an expanding product range, and to support the global sales network, the business has recently trebled its manufacturing space to approximately 70,000 sq ft. This modern, well-equipped and self-contained site will become the company’s headquarters. It facilitates the company’s expansion plans for large-scale investment in battery grade products to supply the global energy storage markets that

The company has now trebled its manufacturing space

Leverton Lithium continues to invest in its staff and facilities

the team believe are only a few short years away.

Leverton C.E.O. David Hicks says: “We received our first Queen’s Award in 2014, and since then we have continued to invest in the company both in terms of manufacturing plant and in our people. Our latest investment in a large new site shows our confidence both in the future of lithium, but also in the UK as a location to manufacture highly value-added products.

“We are focused on creating highly skilled long-term employment, which is a fundamental requirement for success in this fast-growing technical industry. We are at the start of a global energy revolution and the speed of change we will all see in our lives is being driven by lithium chemistry. At Leverton, we are part of this global change and are really proud to receive this award, which is testament to the efforts of our whole team over the past five years.”

LEVERTON LITHIUM Units 13-15 Sherrington Way, Lister Road Industrial Estate, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG22 4DQ Tel: +44 (0) 1256 810393 sales@levertonlithium.com www.levertonlithium.com

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: Manufacturers of plastic moulded products particularly, but not exclusively, for the traffic management sector.

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melba swintex

Melba Products Limited (trading as Melba Swintex) MELBA SWINTEX was established in 1982 in north west England with the key intent to manufacture products for the temporary traffic management sector. It was run by John Dawson, a gifted product designer and entrepreneur. Since then it has gone on to be one of the world’s leading providers of traffic cones, barriers, signs and other traffic related products.

In 2014 John passed away, and the company faced new challenges, which it has more than met through its board of directors, headed by John’s son, Gregg. John would be very proud of the company’s achievement in winning the Queen’s Award for Enterprise this year, as are all the employees and directors at the company.

Melba Swintex have delivered a number of industry-first products that have gone on to become the norm in the traffic management sector. These include the first two-piece road cone, a one-piece 2-metre pedestrian barrier, and a range of temporary traffic signs manufactured from 100% recycled materials.

In addition to this, 80% of the current product range is manufactured from recycled materials, with the entire range being 100% recyclable.

Melba Swintex have always maintained a strong commitment to the environment, with a focus on sustainability and the reduction of post-consumer waste heading to landfill.

Road cones for export.

Various types of barriers.

Through in-house research and development, the company has established new ways to process plastic materials, and developed new products through partnerships with customers and British universities.

From the knowledge and expertise obtained within the traffic management sector, and the continuous growth of a suite of state-of-the-art computerised blow and injection moulding machines, the company have branched out to provide a trade moulding service, allowing customers to manufacture their own products in mass quantities.

This currently encapsulates an enormous range of items, from caravan water kits, to anti-pirate defence barriers for maritime vessels within the Indian Ocean, to working with aid agencies on

Raw material granules.

sanitation equipment in refugee camps.

Melba Swintex initially exported to Western Europe, but have now vastly expanded their customer base to include well over 50 countries, stretching from Iceland to Australia.

Through focusing on tailor made solutions to individual customers and countries’ needs, the range of traffic products has grown at an astonishing rate, which in turn has resulted in the doubling of exports over four years. The current trends within the traffic management sector continue to be very favourable overseas.

There has been substantial growth in recent years, with the work force rising to more than 160 employees. With this has come a need to find new premises to operate from in order to accommodate the extra demand.

At the time of writing, Melba Swintex are currently in the process of confirming new premises close to the existing site that will more than double the work space available.

The company plans to invest £6 million over the next two years in upgrading premises and expanding the capacity for production. This will necessitate a further growth in the work force.

These plans will help drive the company forward over the next decade.

MELBA PRODUCTS LIMITED Derby Works, Manchester Road, Bury, BL9 9NX Tel: 0161 761 4933 • Fax: 0161 797 1146 paul.harrison@melbaswintex.co.uk www.melbaswintex.com

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: A world leading manufacturer, designer and engineer of static control, web cleaning, compressed air technology and surface cleaning products.

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Meech International Meech International is one of the world’s leading suppliers of static control, web cleaning, compressed air technology and surface cleaning products.

Based in Witney, Oxfordshire, Meech designs, manufactures and distributes industrial solutions used in many industries around the world, including print, automotive, pharmaceutical, packaging, plastics and converting.

The Meech export strategy focuses on growth, and today more than 86% of Meech’s business is export. This growth is supported by regional offices in the USA, China, Belgium, Hungary, India and Singapore, and a network of 40 distributors in over 60 countries.

air demand – and ultimately costs. In addition, Meech manufactures a range of Vortex cooling products designed to reduce the temperature of compressed air.

Surface cleaning

Meech has developed a number of stand-alone surface cleaning products: the IonWash is used for fast and consistent contamination removal on 3D components; the JetStream is an ionising air knife system, and the IonRinse VacClean™ - a renowned contact web cleaning system from is an energy efficient alternative to pre-fill water Meech International rinsing systems.

The Meech culture and values are developed dimensions, unparalleled performance and the around being collaborative, innovative and latest industry 4.0 technology. reliable, while building an organisational Static control Web cleaning infrastructure that understands the customer’s Meech has specialised in electrostatic control Meech is one of the only manufactures to offer values and strives to constantly improve the for over 50 years. Electrostatic attraction a comprehensive range of four web cleaner customer experience. generates dust contamination and can technologies, contactfor andan nonthe cause entry and confirm that it is eithercovering passed both PROOF OF ENTRY IN THE LOGO enhancedMeech entrywins the award for International Trade for press, or provide clear instructions product misbehaviour, while electrostatic contact systems.

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2 Network Point, Range Road, Witney, OX29 0YN call us on 01536 520654. supplied to us. Would you please care to check Note that, for technical reasons, the size of Meech manufactures a range of energy efficient The latest range from Meech – the industry Tel: +44 (0)1993 706700 • Fax: +44 (0)1993 776977 entry in the printed product may vary slightly Company description the ‘List ofers Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: air products designed to reduce compressed leading Hyperioninrange – off compact sales@meech.com • www.meech.com from that shown here. This option will also Metstok Ltd distributes stainless steel flat products to stockholders in 14 countries across Europe, from central stocks held in Antwerp.

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Metstok Ltd Metstok Ltd is a family-owned business specialising in the wholesale distribution of stainless steel flat rolled products.

The company was founded in 2013 by husband and wife team John and Jane Vernon who, having been involved in stainless steel stockholding, spotted an opportunity further up the supply chain in wholesale distribution.

Initially Metstok acted as exclusive agents in the UK and Irish markets for Jindal Stainless of India.

But, having seen first-hand the barriers to sales caused by extended lead times and international payment terms, the team proposed a different approach, which was for the mill to carry stock in Europe. This, together with Metstok acting as distributor, created a new supply option with faster deliveries, current pricing, and trading on open credit, which is more akin to the European model.

Due to limited logistics the business model was to sell only full truckloads of material to established stockholders, and not service smaller accounts; this was primarily because of the need to optimise transport costs from the Antwerp warehouse. As a consequence, there were only a John Vernon MD

limited number of customers available to Metstok in the UK, and the above factors meant the company looked to Europe to scale the business.

The UK now accounts for 15% of the company’s turnover, which will be £45 million in the year to March 2019, and the company sells to 14 European countries, with the largest market now being Germany. In 2016 the concern over Brexit saw the creation of Metstok-Inox in Ireland to help protect supplies to European customers.

The successful team now numbers 16 people, with finance and operations based in Clitheroe and sales teams being based in national markets.

Language skills are essential and the team boasts Czech, German, Slovakian, French, Spanish and South Slavic speaking staff.

The future is bright for Metstok, which is in the process of adding aluminium to its product mix and expanding geographically into new global markets beyond Europe.

METSTOK LTD Moreton Park House, Moreton Park, Whalley, Lancashire, BB7 9DW Tel : + 44 (0) 1200 407100 • www.metstok.com john.vernon@metstok.com

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: A furniture design and manufacturing company, which creates unique products that have instant, broad appeal and extensive applications.

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The innovative naughtone team are based in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire

naughtone products are now on sale across the globe

naughtone is a furniture design and manufacturing company based in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, with products available on a global scale. naughtone works with influential and global brands, such as Amazon, Etsy and Google, and has developed a strategy to design and manufacture products that have instant, broad appeal and extensive applications.

The naughtone product range is 100% unique to naughtone, having been designed in-house or specifically commissioned. The range consists of seating, table and storage products, and attempts to cater for the most commercial furniture demands, away from the desk and task chair. The product range is pared down aesthetically and has multiple finish options to make each piece broadly appealing.

Founded in 2005, the Yorkshire-based company has expanded rapidly to accommodate international growth, with naughtone products on display throughout North America, Asia and EMEA, and even as far afield as Australia.

To effectively access a global market, naughtone began manufacturing in the USA and, in 2019, 70% of its products for the North American market are now made in the USA, supporting its approach to sensible lead times, pricing and the environment.

NAUGHTONE Knaresborough Technology Park, Manse Lane , Knaresborough, HG5 8LF Tel: +44 (0)1423 816500 • sales@naughtone.com • www.naughtone.com

The range is 100% unique to naughtone

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MiRiCal Emblems is a specialist manufacturer of heat-applied logo products used to convey an organisation’s brand image when applied to different clothing types. From heavy-duty workwear to sportswear, MiRiCal’s products are used around the world.

Established in 1993, MiRiCal initially exported MiRiCal’s Directors Jonathan Dul (left) and Mark Tacey using a distributor network, but in 2008 the company adopted a direct sales approach, employing local staff in each country it operates in. Winning a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade underlines the success of this business model, which has seen export activities account for 75% of the company’s turnover by the start of 2018.

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Niftylift is one of the largest manufacturers of Mobile Elevating Work Platforms in Europe. It specialises in compact, low-weight articulating booms that offer maximum performance with minimal environmental impact.

Niftylift has been in operation Niftylift’s British headquarters in Milton Keynes since 1985, when it started in a garden shed in Bedfordshire.

Today it employs hundreds of people in the design, development, production and distribution of world-class products that are exported around the world. Niftylift’s team is very proud to say that every Niftylift, found anywhere in the world was designed and built in the UK. Niftylift uses advanced 3D modelling software, together with rigorous testing, to optimise every aspect of its product design and ensure that every machine delivers outstanding performance without compromising on functionality or enhanced reliability. entry LOGO for an Through investment in its staff, manufacturing equipment and in the Index of Contributors technology, Niftylift maintains an ongoing commitment to its customers, If you have also ordered an enhanced entry to to consistently produce high quality, innovative products that meet or beexceed placed intheir the Index of Contributors, then a expectations. proof of your logo is shown here on the right.

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Natgraph Ltd Natgraph is the global leader in advanced drying and curing technology, delivering high performance solutions, innovation and optimum energy efficiency across a wide range of precision-dependent applications.

The company was founded in 1980 and has since established itself as a global leader in the industrial printing market. Based in Nottingham, 90% of factory output goes to customers in Europe, the Americas and Asia.

The company was one of the first in the industry to shift focus from the graphics market to industrial applications, where the requirements for precision and control, uniformity and repeatability presented a very new challenge.

Happily, its business is blessed with exceptional engineers with talent in mechanical and electrical design. This has also enabled the company to lead the way in PLC control.

The company boasts a talented team featuring expertise, deep experience, limitless energy and high commitment to the business, all for the benefit of its customers.

Today, Natgraph answers the needs of the most demanding print applications in the world. It does that by respecting the clear promises made in its PEAK proposition – Precision and control, Energy

Natgraph has established itself as a global leader in the industrial printing market since its launch in 1980

glass, label, textile transfer and print finishing markets. These markets often require tailored, high-performance solutions, and so the company’s factory is designed for that very purpose.

Natgraph is vertically integrated, and converts sheet steel into precise, controllable and energy efficient electro-mechanical drying equipment.

This approach enables the team to be agile, responsive and innovative in the quest to support their customers with the best equipment available anywhere in the world.

The Natgraph team has been able to exploit their strong brand and excellent distribution network to achieve growth of 134% over the past three years.

The business has done this by focusing heavily on specific market segments, developing a clear sales proposition that resonates with decision makers, and investing in factory operations. efficient, Application knowledge, Know-how – and as such it’s the drying and curing supplier of choice for the world’s leading companies in the automotive, medical, electronics, security print,

NATGRAPH LTD Dabell Avenue, Blenheim Industrial Estate, Nottingham, NG6 8WA • Tel: +44 (0)115 979 5800 info@natgraph.co.uk • natgraph.co.uk

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OE Electrics Limited

OE Electrics Ltd began life more than 30 years ago in a small warehouse in Wakefield. It is now a leading designer and manufacturer of mains power and USB charging solutions.

The company works with commercial furniture manufacturers all over the world, and has its purpose built manufacturing site in Wakefield, as well as sites in Germany and Australia. This allows it to service the whole world, providing custom solutions to many global brands.

“Winning the Queen’s Award is, in a large part, due to our wonderful staff, from manufacturing to customer support, to technical and quotations,” says the team. “Our in-house product design department work closely with our customers to provide the best solutions. And each product goes through a rigorous testing process with national and international testing houses. This ensures we meet all the relevant standards for each individual country we supply.

“Recently we have concentrated our innovation on designing an industry leading USB charger.

Our patented replaceable ‘TUF-Charger’ can be installed into not only any of our standard products, but also into virtually any suitable environment required. The unique design allows facility managers to replace or upgrade the USB charger without the need for an electrician, or indeed turning off the power.

“Our ‘Always Innovating’ motto not only applies to our products, but also the way in which we work. Our success, as a company, is due to our innovative approach to manufacturing processes

OE Electrics leads the field in USB charging solutions

From its base in Wakefield, the company has a global reach

and staff development. We are continuously looking for ways to improve, whether that is supply chains or routes to market.

“In 2014, when we realised we could supply industries other than office, we rebranded from ‘Office Electrics’ to ‘OE Electrics’. We now support airport seating manufacturers, laboratory fit out companies and universities to name but a few.”

As a result of being able to supply many other industries, the company has grown dramatically, increasing staff numbers and expertise. This has propelled the company forward to become the ‘go to’ firm for advice and custom solutions.

In order to improve its reach into Europe, it created OE Electrics GmbH. This manufacturing site near Cologne will work closely with distributors in Germany, France, Poland and Holland. Its new ‘click and connect’ modular system – QikFit – allows distributors and customers to design and assemble their own

units. The innovative design allows distributors to buy the product in kit form so they can service their customer without the need for complicated manufacturing processes.

QikFit is also compatible with OE’s Australian subsidiary company Elsafe’s range of products, offering more opportunity for new markets internationally.

This year the team won ‘Insiders: Manufacturer of the Year’ for Yorkshire, and have also been entered into the national awards. They also featured in the Sunday Times’ Profit Track: Ones To Watch, and are exhibiting at Interzum in Cologne to launch OE Germany and QikFit. “To be a winner of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise is a real honour for all at OE Electrics,” says MD David Masters. “As a brand, we have been predominantly recognised in our markets for our innovative products. This award, especially, acknowledges the hugely talented team here at OE Electrics for our export achievements. To be a part of the select group of Queen’s Award winners brings a great sense of pride to everyone involved.”

OE ELECTRICS LIMITED OE House, Thomas Maddison Lane, Calder Park, Wakefield, WF4 3GH • Tel: +44 (0)1924 367255 Fax: +44 (0)1924 290652 • sales@oeelectrics.co.uk

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The leading provider of Oxford summer schools, Oxford Royale Academy (ORA), is delighted to have been named as a winner of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise, International Trade Category, for the third time in seven years.

In order to carve a truly successful path in a highly competitive world, ORA believes that young people need greater global awareness, varied cultural ORA is the leading provider of Oxford summer schools experiences, and vitally, personal guidance. And their summer schools offer exactly this. Students can choose from over 150 courses, all designed to help them gain confidence, experience and a competitive edge.

Offering students an opportunity to experience Oxbridge, together with broad cultural experiences and outstanding teaching, has proved to be a highly successful combination. By challenging traditional approaches to education, and building strong international relations, ORA continues to contribute ever-more exceptional talent and experience to the world of international trade and research.

Panel Graphic is celebrating its 21st trading year. It has recently won four prestigious regional awards, acknowledging the company’s exceptional growth. The Queen’s Award for International Trade is seen as the pinnacle of achievement for the company, and firmly establishes Panel Graphic as the UK’s leading plastic enhancement display window specialist.

The company specialises in the The award-winning Panel Graphic team supply of high quality plastic parts.

Items are machined, printed or coated with special coatings to make them abrasion resistant or give them a surface that removes reflection, allowing the consumer of a product to read an information display better and more clearly at all times.

Unique ranges of surface coatings for plastic parts have been developed.

These parts are now not only being used in Rolls-Royce, Porsche and Bentley Motors, but also in fire detector sensors, enabling long-term performance, as well as medical equipment that will ultimately help to save lives.

OXFORD ROYALE ACADEMY Yarnton Manor, Oxford, OX5 1PY • Tel: +44(0)845 130 6021 Fax: +44(0)845 280 0122 • admin@oxford-royale.co.uk www.oxford-royale.co.uk

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by Ray Spencer in 1952, and owns and operates began exporting back in the a growing group 1960s. Paul, the son of the of international founder (still working at 91!), schools across the says: “We are delighted to win globe, targeting the International Trade Award students between 2 thanks to the rapid growth of our and 18 years old. The export sales of drink accessories schools specialise in over the last three years. the English National “My colleague Jed and I had a Curriculum, augmented lot of encouragement and support Students at Orbital’s school in Shanghai enjoy their to meet the needs of from the DIT in that period, which Chinese New Year celebrations specific international helped us explore new overseas student populations, markets from America to Asia. and supported by an experienced team of educationalists from the “It’s been really gratifying that Paul is the son of the company’s founder, Ray, who’s company’s Cheshire base. our home bar product selections “Orbital Education is honoured to be awarded the Queen’s Award for have been appreciated by so many still involved in the business at the age of 91 Enterprise: International Trade 2019. Our company believes that quality, diverse markets overseas – if we transparency accountability all lead to success forrm our students, their have thing inIN common enjoy drink, perhaps it’spassedPROOF theallentry anda confi rmso that it is either the entry and confi that it is either passed PROOF OFone ENTRY THE it’s that we LOGO OF ENTRY for anand enhanced IN THE entry families and the company, ” says Chairman and Founder Kevin McNeany. no surprise our current bestseller is a glass globe decanter! for press, or provide clear instructions for press, or provide clear instructions QUEEN’S AWARD MAGAZINE QUEEN’S in theAWARD Index of MAGAZINE Contributors amendments are required.

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Pickering Interfaces Pickering Interfaces, the leading supplier of modular signal switching and simulation solutions for use in electronic test and verification, is delighted and proud to announce that it has won the Queen’s Award for Outstanding Short Term Growth in Overseas Sales over the past three years.

Pickering Interfaces Ltd was founded in 1988 as part of the Pickering Group, which itself celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2018.

Based in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, the company designs and manufactures modular signal switching and instrumentation for use in electronic testing and simulation for use in a wide range of industries, including automotive, aerospace and defence, energy, industrial, communications, medical and semiconductor.

The company offers fast turnaround on a large range of both catalogue and customised solutions.

CEO Keith Moore says: “Pickering Interfaces exports 95% of its production overseas, with 40% to North America, 35% to Europe and 20% to Asia. We received the Queen’s Award due to our 25% average growth during each of the three previous years.

“We are honoured to have won such a prestigious award. Our success in the market is due in large part to the flexibility of our workforce. We look to support customers in hi-tech industries by providing highly-reliable solutions to their specific problems, not just selling them a ‘catalogue part’.

“This means everyone on the team – from the sales people at the front end who spot opportunities, through product development who work to envisage creative and practical solutions, to the manufacturing personnel who deliver products on time that carry our three-year warranty – must be committed and very capable.

“We have worked hard to facilitate such an environment globally, and the award is testament

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to this. We thank the Queen’s Award committee for the award, which we will treasure.”

About Pickering Interfaces

Pickering Interfaces designs and manufactures modular signal switching and simulation for use in electronic test and verification. It offers the largest range of switching and simulation products in the industry for PXI, LXI and PCI applications.

To support these products, it also provides cable and connector solutions and diagnostic test tools, along with its application software and software drivers created by its in-house software team.

Pickering’s products are specified in test systems installed throughout the world, and have a reputation for providing excellent reliability and value.

The CEO of Pickering Interfaces, Keith Moore

Pickering Interfaces operates globally with direct operations in the US, UK, Germany, Sweden, France, Czech Republic and China, together with additional representation in countries throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. It currently serves all electronics industries, including automotive, aerospace and defense, energy, industrial, communications, medical and semiconductor.

The company designs and manufactures modular signal switching and simulation for use in electronic test and verification

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PrimeVigilance PrimeVigilance, an Ergomed company, was established in 2008 by the current Chairman of the Ergomed plc Board, Dr. Miroslav Reljanovic to provide specialised pharmacovigilance services to PrimeVigilance provides pharmacovigilance and medical pharmaceutical information services and biotechnology companies.

WHO defines pharmacovigilance services as the science and activities relating to the detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects or any other drug-related problem. Since its inception, PrimeVigilance has developed additional services, including medical information call centres, and has grown to become one of the global leaders in its field, providing services to over 140 client companies in more than 100 countries. PrimeVigilance continues to expand as it strives to become the leading global pharmacovigilance and medical information service provider, complementing Ergomed’s leading CRO capabilities. The company’s mission is a world with safer drugs.

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Precision Dippings Manufacturing, which is based near Bristol, has 50 years’ experience of making bespoke rubber products for a variety of industries. The company also launched the Bloccs range of waterproof protectors for casts and dressings in 2013, and won a Queen’s Award for Innovation in 2016.

Available in both adult’s and children’s sizes, the Bloccs range, which has been listed for UK prescription, includes reusable leg, arm and elbow covers, with knee protectors being introduced shortly.

The Bloccs range has become a market leader in the UK, and is sold by major retailers, including Boots and Amazon. The brand has also established itself on a global scale, with overseas sales increasing by 105% in the past three years. Among the many countries the company now exports to are the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Netherlands, France and Sweden.

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: British design and wholesale company offering fun, quirky and colourful gifts and homeware to retailers worldwide.

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Rex London Rex International Ltd, trading as Rex London, began in 1981 as a market stall in London’s Portobello Road market. Since then it has been creating original gifts for her, him and the kids, plus accessories and decorations for the home.

The company’s products are either exclusively designed or lovingly chosen by its in-house creative team. It now employs over 70 people and has become a major international wholesaler, offering a range of more than 2,500 products to retailers worldwide.

Rex London is proud to have been recognised for its Enterprise in International Trade, following six years of outstanding continuous growth in overseas sales. The company’s successful year on year expansion is in large part due to export, which has risen 250% since 2012.

Sales Director Nigel Biggs highlights the importance of staying connected with international customers, attributing Rex London’s successes to this outward facing strategy. He says: “We take a global outlook when it comes to trade; our websites are fully translated into French and German, we attend multiple international trade shows each year and have recently established a physical presence in the Netherlands and Belgium, from which we sell direct to local retailers.”

Rex London’s management team (L-R): John, Les, Nigel, Candy and Taig

The future looks set for further global expansion. With plans in place to expand in Europe and distribution arrangements being set up in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, Rex London now exports to over 70 countries.

Its unique products can be seen all over the world, from small independent shops to

galleries, museums and large department stores.

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: RTR GmbH & Co. KG is a specialist supplier for pipes, tubes, plate, clad plate and accessories for pressure part applications.

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RTR GmbH & Co. KG UK-based RTR GmbH & Co. KG is an international specialist provider of steel pipes, tubes, plate and associated components for inter alia high temperature pressure part applications across the globe. It has established markets in the UK, Germany, Australasia, South Africa, Indonesia, Pakistan and the Middle East.

Currently in its 50th year of operation, RTR works with clients across a number of different industry sectors, including power plant repair and maintenance within nuclear, coal, gas and biomass, as well as waste to energy, chemical and petrochemical. Through local partnerships, the company plans to increase its activity in these markets for continued growth.

The prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise recognises the company’s outstanding shortterm growth in overseas sales over the past three years, building on a period of overall growth for the company. Originally founded in Germany, the company’s hard-work and shrewd expansion has seen overseas activity increase from a nominal amount in 2015 to represent over 69% of total sales in 2017, and close to 80% in 2018.

Speaking about the honour, Managing Director and co-owner of RTR GmbH & Co. KG, Philip Ross, says: “We are deeply honoured to have been recognised for this award, which is the result of huge commitment and a great deal of work by everyone in the team. With changes in our domestic market over recent years it was essential we developed overseas customers.

“We are delighted with the response we have received from these territories and we see export

as a fundamental part of our growth strategy.

“In the 33 years I have worked with RTR, I have witnessed first-hand the strength of our collaboration with our customers and supply chain alike. In that time, we have moved into a number of exciting areas, including nuclear, biomass, waste to energy and other renewable processes.

“Our challenge is to continue to innovate and expand the level of service we deliver to our clients, both domestic and internationally, and I am confident we can continue to do so; with our dedicated team committed to providing the same exceptional provision which has seen us recognised in this award.”

Over the past 50 years the RTR Group has developed specialist engineering and metallurgical

knowledge in the sectors in which it operates, and offers a consultative and collaborative approach to clients for their repairs, maintenance and environmental upgrades. Its expert supply chain management, combined with detailed logistical appreciation, also ensures timely execution of critical path components. This unique combination of technical expertise and sector experience underpins the RTR offer and has fuelled its growth in both domestic and overseas territories.

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REPL Group Founded in 2007 by Mike Callender and Chris Love, REPL Group is a world-leading consultancy and technology group specialising in workforce transformation, supply chain, customer experience and enterprise systems.

The idea for REPL came about after the company where the pair were previously working began to consult a US-based software company to help solve the organisation’s need for a workforce management and back office solution. While the software vendor had the right functionality, it didn’t have any services on the ground and therefore was required to train people up to implement the solution for the company. However, it soon became clear that Mike and Chris had picked up the software far quicker than the third parties they had engaged to do so, and as a result, they took charge of implementing the software into the company they had been working at.

Co-founder and Executive Chairman Mike Callender continues to help drive the business, here with CEO Cerys Johnson

Above: The team outside the headquarters in Warwickshire

This didn’t go unnoticed by the software vendor, RedPrairie, who were setting up in the UK to make the most of the opportunities the UK market presented.

With this in mind, Mike and Chris approached RedPrairie with the offer of becoming consultants to support their UK efforts – and so, REPL was born. While the company was originally built on this one relationship, it has built relationships with software vendors around the world in the 12 years that have followed.

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During the first year of REPL, its only employees were Mike, Chris and Jake Dawson, who joined in month four, with the company operating from Mike’s kitchen table. However, as its client base grew so did the number of employees, and within three years, REPL had grown to 30 employees.

During this time, the management team all had multifunctional roles, fulfilling their own core duties as a consultant, but also functioning as the HR manager and chief finance officer, for instance. In time, they came to the realisation that they needed to set up central functions to make

sure they could focus their time on customers.

Therefore, new employees should be brought on to carry out the central functions that needed to take place behind the scenes in order to keep the organisation ticking along.

While the team of consultants often worked from home or a client-site, the prospect of a growing organisation meant Mike’s kitchen was no longer a viable workspace. This was the genesis for REPL moving into an office location, resulting in a move into a small office above a bridal shop to test whether there was a need for an office.

This low-risk, low-cost exercise coincided with REPL developing a software development capability which saw the team outgrow the office very quickly. Consequently, REPL moved to a nearby office that was three times the size, which it again outgrew within 12 months. This led to REPL moving to its current location in Henley-in-Arden.

However, as the company has continued to grow, this space was no longer sufficient. As such, REPL has since gone on to open three additional office locations in the UK in London, Warwick and Leeds. REPL now boasts several global offices in South Africa, Japan, Singapore and the United States and over 300 employees.

Building strong relationships REPL has based its culture on partnerships and alliances with software vendors. It operates by training its consultants up on the vendor’s software

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INTERNATIONAL TRADE competition, as the organisation has recognised it provides the most value to its clients through its unique insight-driven expertise. This has helped to cement its position as a trusted advisor within the retail industry.

REPL’s main point of differentiation is its people.

When asked what REPL stands for, the team responds with ‘REmarkable PeopLe’. The team at REPL is driven by solving problems for customers and it is often this problem solving that has helped to shape where REPL develops offerings.

For instance, opening offices in the US and South Africa were both actions driven by the needs of its customers.

In its 12 years, REPL’s client base has grown significantly thanks to the team’s drive to really help customers and make a difference. In order to achieve this, REPL doesn’t adopt a cookie-cutter approach where one size fits all; it makes a real difference by being an innovative and pragmatic company that works with customers and offering a personalised service. REPL’s employees relish The company’s Cape Town team photographed in front of the spectacular Table Mountain

solutions in order to help the vendor improve the way they sell their solutions and do them in a more economical way and within the right geographies.

In its 12 years, and through these relationships, REPL has become a true systems integrator, delivering more to its customers and now able to help with end-to-end integration, testing services, AI, automation and development services.

Over the years, REPL has also formed close relationships with customers, initially building its customer-base purely through word of mouth recommendations. For instance, one of REPL’s early customers was Asda. When REPL’s contact at the supermarket chain moved to the United States, they engaged REPL’s services for their parent company, Walmart.

Part of REPL’s US team in front of the Museum of American Art

Similarly, another contact moved to Microsoft, where they too requested REPL’s services.

Entrepreneurial spirit

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REPL has a very entrepreneurial mindset, with the philosophy that “there is always an answer, they just haven’t worked it out yet.”

REPL has a culture of empowerment, which has helped to create a highly engaged workforce.

94.5% of REPL’s workforce would recommend REPL as a good place to work, and innovation within the organisation is driven from all levels.

REPL’s offering also makes it stand out from the

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With technological challenges often holding organisations back, REPL finds ways to overcome these obstacles and deliver things faster to clients to allow them to realise benefits sooner.

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Shnuggle is, without doubt, a brand that is synonymous with the nursery industry. Since its conception in 2009, its founders, husband and wife team Sinead and Adam Murphy, have made their mark through quality product design and strong supportive The Shnuggle Team retail and distributor relationships, winning a host of prestigious awards for both product innovation and business.

From humble beginnings with a truly heart-warming backstory, Shnuggle has real purpose, and has rapidly become a brand that is loved the world over. The product range is currently being sold in over 47 countries, with a further 13 territories identified for 2019 and beyond.

Product development continues to be a focus of the business, and Shnuggle is committed to continually designing innovative products that make life easier for new parents.

Shnuggle has led the way in making baby’s first 12 months a safe, relaxing and fun experience around the world, and with ambitious growth plans for the future, Shnuggle really is a baby brand that is all grown up.

SHNUGGLE Sketrick House, Jubilee Rd, Newtownards, BT23 4YH • Tel: +44 (0) 28 9181 5169 hello@shnuggle.co.uk • www.shnuggle.com

SciBite is delighted to have been awarded a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade, receiving recognition for its outstanding short-term growth in overseas sales over the past three years.

The international growth of SciBite has been led through the global adoption of its The SciBite team continues to rapidly expand globally disruptive semantic software across the top 20 largest pharmaceutical companies in the world.

Established in 2013 and headquartered in the UK at the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, the company operates globally, with offices in the USA and Japan.

“Our technology enables clients to turn previously unusable but scientifically relevant text into high-quality, machine-readable clean data.

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Snap-on A leading manufacturer and supplier of automotive hand and power tools, diagnostic platforms, software and equipment, Snap-on is honoured to celebrate being a recipient of the highly coveted Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade and Innovation.

Snap-on Incorporated operates in more than 150 countries and employs approximately 12,600 people worldwide. Snap-on also has a franchise network of more than 4,200 franchisees.

Snap-on is a leading global developer, manufacturer and marketer of tool and equipment solutions for professional tool users. Snap-on Incorporated is a $3.7 billion, SNA listed company whose product lines include high-quality hand tools and tool storage solutions, diagnostic equipment, information and management systems, ‘under-car’ shop implements, such as hydraulic lifts and tyre changers. Snap-on serves technicians in the auto, marine, and aviation industries, vehicle manufacturers, utilities, plus government and industrial organisations.

Since 1920, its principle value-creating mechanism has been to observe work, translate the insights gained and create solutions that make essential tasks easier. Opportunities to leverage this value proposition, both within and beyond vehicle repair, are embodied in its runways for growth: enhance the franchise network, expand with garage owners and managers, extend to critical industries and build in emerging markets.

At the same time, Snap-on remains committed to its runways for improvement, applying its Snap-on Value Creation Processes, a suite of principles used every day in the areas of safety, quality, customer connection, innovation and rapid continuous improvement (RCI).

Snap-on Diagnostics UK is a subsidiary of

Snap-on UK Holdings Ltd. The diagnostic division is based in King’s Lynn, Norfolk and supports a range of garage equipment to the UK and European marketplace, including MOT/ATL bays, emissions units, brake testers, tyre changers and wheel

Snap-on’s MODIS Edge diagnostic platform

balancers, vehicle lifts, AC recycle equipment and hand held diagnostic solutions.

Mark Ost, General Manager of Snap-on King’s Lynn, says: “It is a true honour and privilege for our achievements here at Snap-on to be recognised with the rare and prestigious accolade of two separate Queen’s Awards for Enterprise.

“Snap-on continues to grow in all markets at home and abroad, and we will continue to work hard on bringing exciting new products and technologies to the markets we operate in as well as continuously demonstrating our commitment to innovation.”

SNAP-ON UK www.snapon.co.uk

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: Award-winning semantic software company offering an ontology-led approach, supporting the top 20 pharma with use cases across life sciences.

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Sterling Pharma Solutions Sterling Pharma Solutions is the UK’s largest provider of small molecule active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) development and manufacturing services to the pharmaceutical industry. The company, which has sites in the north east of England and the US, specialises in handling challenging chemistries.

With over 50 years’ experience, the team can manage the most complex API and API intermediate challenges, and its facilities have the scale to go from proof-of-concept to commercial manufacture. The company now has over 400 employees, and exports its customers’ products worldwide. Over the past three years, Sterling has experienced significant growth through business wins in the US, Japan and Europe.

STERLING PHARMA SOLUTIONS Dudley Lane, Cramlington, NE23 7QG Tel: +44 (0)191 250 0471 enquiries@sterlingpsl.com www.sterlingpharmasolutions.com

The SciBite team continues to rapidly expand globally

The company specialises in handling challenging chemistries

The team can manage complex API and API intermediate challenges

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: Specialist Insight Ltd has four main brands: Corporate Jet Investor, Helicopter Investor, Superyacht Investor and Revolution.Aero

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Specialist Insight Ltd The team have a global reach from their base in Reigate

Fact one: no-one buys anything of value without first researching it on the internet. Fact two: there is still nothing as effective as meeting someone face-to-face. Specialist Insight has built a business based on these two fundamentals.

Launched in a garden shed in 2010 by husband and wife team Alasdair and Louisa Whyte, the company provides news, analysis, data and events to more than 60,000 people a month.

Specialist Insight’s newsletters, websites, videos and magazines provide insight to people involved in the specialist markets of business aviation, helicopters, superyachts and aviation technology.

Its conferences, events and training courses in London, Dubai, Geneva, Singapore, Miami and San Francisco draw senior leaders together both for content and for networking.

Its individual brands – Corporate Jet Investor, Helicopter Investor, Superyacht Investor and Revolution.Aero – are better known than the parent company, and each has a strong following in its individual market.

Its customers include some of the world’s best and most exciting companies.

They vary between the largest international banks, governments and manufacturers to individual consultants and start-ups.

“All are important to us and we are hugely grateful for their support since we launched,” says Louisa Whyte. “We firmly believe that serious content does not need to be boring. Whether it is an article on new finance regulations or a panel discussion at one of our conferences covering sales tax, we seek to entertain people while informing them.

During the period of the award, international sales grew 550%. The company has operated globally since launch and has customers in 48 markets worldwide. Overseas sales account for 85% of our revenue.

“We’re incredibly proud to have won this award,” says Louisa Whyte. “We and our amazing team are using it as encouragement to keep growing and to continue offering value to those who count on us.”

Co-founders Alasdair and Louisa Whyte

Serious conferences do not need to be boring

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Systems Interface manages complex technical and logistical requirements, designing, Remote Virtual Air Traffic Control at Jersey Airport sourcing, supplying, installing and commissioning fully integrated bespoke solutions, from the latest Remote Virtual Air Traffic Control Tower technology to navigation aids and communications equipment, working with the world’s leading manufacturers.

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TDS is known for its agile design, industrial volume manufacturing processes, and specialist expertise in From their West Yorkshire base, the Teledyne team the defence, security, industrial and are continuing to lead in their field commercial space sectors.

“We are delighted to win such a prestigious award, which recognises our achievement in core business growth and, in recent years, gaining a strong position in the space sector, producing significant growth across UK and international markets,” says Ian Skiggs, Vice President and General Manager of Teledyne Solutions UK. “This growth is expected to continue LOGO for Microwave an enhanced entry support goal towards a sustainable, highly skilled, regional inand the Indexour of strategic Contributors business enterprise, recognised as a technology leader in the space sector, If you have also ordered an enhanced entry to and supporting regional investment and jobs across the Yorkshire region.” be placed in the Index of Contributors, then a proof of your logo is shown here on the right.

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Semmco Ltd Semmco is a British engineering company that designs and manufactures high quality access platforms, ground support equipment and refuelling steps that enable engineers and operators to maintain and service planes, trains and helicopters. The business has established a global reputation for innovative design, producing products that are safe, durable and multifunctional.

Founded in 1993 by Managing Director Stuart McOnie, Semmco is dedicated to designing innovative solutions for a safe and efficient working environment – initially for aviation and, more recently, for the helicopter and rail industries.

Through close working relationships with its clients, Semmco has designed and developed an extensive range of high quality equipment designed with the user in mind, while conforming to worldwide safety standards.

Its innovative products feature designs that meet the needs of teams on the ground, helping make complex tasks easier to carry out during maintenance work – while keeping the engineer safe and preventing potential damage to the aircraft, helicopter or train.

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design process, to achieve bespoke solutions.

After 25 years, Semmco is a global business operating out of its HQ in Woking, Surrey: a 2100m2 purpose designed premises close to major airports and other transport networks.

The company also has manufacturing, maintenance and assembly operations in Texas and Dubai, enabling it to provide a first class service for its global network of clients in the UK and Europe, the Americas, throughout the Middle East, Africa and beyond. Semmco has been assessed and certified as meeting the requirements of ISO 9001:2015 Certificate No. GB96/8419.00.

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Stuart says: “We are extremely proud to have received the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the International Trade category this year. It’s an incredible achievement and a testament to the hard work of every person at Semmco.”

SEMMCO LTD 9 Kestrel Way, Woking, Surrey, GU21 3BA, UK Tel: +44 (0)1483 757200 Fax: +44 (0)1483 740795 sales@semmco.com www.semmco.com

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: tangerine is an internationally renowned UK design consultancy that creates groundbreaking innovation and design that makes consumers happy and businesses profitable.

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The bluebell smart monitoring system, designed by tangerine, helps give parents peace of mind

The company has designed hundreds of projects worldwide

Founded in 1989, tangerine recognised how the dramatic socio-economic changes sweeping the planet might present opportunities to look beyond the UK market.

Today, it is proud to be recognised with a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade, in the same year that it celebrates its 30th anniversary.

From the beginning, tangerine stressed the importance of seeing a product from the consumer’s viewpoint, of understanding the user’s motivations and desires, as well as setting a clear business case. tangerine’s concept computers for Apple in 1990 were the product of extraordinary design ability, high ambition and exceptional imagination. Within a young Sir Jonathan Ive’s ‘Folio’ concept, for example, were the seeds of what would one day be called an iPad. The design of the world’s first fully lie-flat business class bed in 2000 for British Airways propelled the studio into the spotlight. tangerine’s paradigm shifting yin-yang seating format revolutionised passenger travel and set a benchmark for premium travel world-wide.

With studios in London and Seoul, and a branch office in Brazil, supported by design talent from every continent, tangerine has built a successful business that helps global companies to create new products, services and customer experiences

tangerine helps businesses across the globe move into new markets

that drive commercial performance. “It’s all about clarity of vision,” says tangerine Chief Creative Officer, Matt Round.

“Our understanding and insight of consumer attitudes in different parts of the world means we can help businesses to move into new markets and expand their consumer offer.” tangerine’s long association with South Korean giant, LG, started in the late 1980s, when LG was looking to move into European markets, targeting western consumers. Today, after designing in excess of 85 projects the relationship has evolved to take advantage of new technologies and market opportunities.

Elsewhere, tangerine is designing highspeed trains and autonomous cars for Chinese manufacturers, retail outlets across Asia and aircraft cabin interiors for national carriers. tangerine has also been bringing the world to its door, running a successful programme called ‘design immersion’, where companies such as Nikon and Seiko, send executives to co-locate with tangerine’s design team to explore future possibilities.

This global approach has enabled tangerine to work with international companies, such as Cathay Pacific, Johnson & Johnson, Gulf Air, Samsung, Toyota and Huawei across a range of diverse sectors.

“tangerine is a major exporter of design, with over 80% of our business consistently coming from outside Europe over the last 30 years,” says founder and CEO, Martin Darbyshire.

“We have experienced strong growth over the last three years in Asia and believe we have much to offer other businesses around the world.”

Graham Stuart MP, Minister for Investment at the Department for International Trade, says: “I am delighted that tangerine have received the Queen’s Award for International Trade. Over the last 30 years the company have continually looked beyond the UK market to further their brand and seek global success. Recent research from the UK’s Design Council, The Design Economy 2018, has shown that the total value of exports which relied on the design industry was £48.4 billion in 2015. It is companies like tangerine who make this achievement possible, by marrying the UK’s world class talent in design with hard work.

“My department is committed to supporting businesses of all sizes to join tangerine in exporting more, breaking into new markets, and generating wealth for our economy.”

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Tissue Solutions Ltd has been supplying human biomaterials and scientific expertise to multinational companies since 2007.

The ISO 9001: 2015 accredited company offers a tissue provision service through a global network to individual requirements, ensuring projects are not constrained by access to human biomaterials or Tissue Solutions supply human biomaterials for research. collection timelines.

Tissue Solutions also offer a comprehensive, integrated range of tissue-related, GLP/GCP-compliant IHC and histology services, offering a single access point for pre-clinical and clinical research. Services include sourcing difficult to obtain samples for a range of applications, such as target identification and validation, biomarker studies, companion diagnostics, pharmacogenetics and safety testing.

Tissue Solutions specialise in sourcing ‘tough’ tissues, for example fresh samples and skin biopsies. The management team has a wealth of experience gained from many years in the biotech and pharmaceutical industry, with expertise in ethics, compliance and logistics.

Based in Berkshire, Trace2o manufactures and supplies environmental testing technologies, specialising in the analysis of drinking (potable) and waste water – and is capable of measuring the safety of drinking water to World Health Organisation guidelines (WHO).

This includes microbiological parameters, such as E. Coli, which Trace2o’s portable kit, the Arsenometer, measures cause more than 80% of the the level of arsenic in water samples world’s diarrhoeal diseases.

Starting from scratch in 2015, the company now sells to over 56 countries, with overseas sales growing by 265% over the past five years. Typical developing world clients include Non Government Organisations, such as Oxfam. Following the company’s success, through UNICEF, for the long term arrangement for the supply of water testing kits and portable laboratories, this awards them at least 50% share of that marketplace globally. The company wins the Queen’s Award for International Trade for Outstanding Short Term Growth in Overseas Sales.

Neil Durham, MD and CEO, says: “I’m delighted, on behalf of the directors, to see that such an award can be won in such a short time. It could not have been possible without the hard working attitude of the Trace2o staff.”

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: World-leading licensee that manufactures innovative chemical cleaning products for the global automotive industry, including WilliamsF1, MotoGP, TurtleWax Pro and Caiman.

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Ultimotive Ltd ULTIMOTIVE LTD (headquartered in Colchester, Essex) develops, manufactures, markets and supplies innovative chemical cleaning products for the global automotive industry. Founded in 2003 by Managing Director Andy Smith, the company supplies major brands under licence including Williams F1, MotoGP, Michelin, Turtle Wax Pro, Stayzon and its own label Caiman.

Export sales account for 39% of the company’s business, which experienced growth of almost 300% in the period 2015-17. Notably, at this critical time for British exports, Ultimotive’s global reach is still accelerating.

International markets include Australia, Qatar, Turkey, Sweden and Jordan.

2019 will see the company’s footprint expand further as it launches exciting new products in Asia.

When it comes to professional automotive cleaning products, Ultimotive is proud to fly the flag for Britain. Now, quite literally, the company will be flying the flag with the prestigious moniker and emblem of the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise above its headquarters and on its product packaging.

Employing 13 staff, Ultimotive has a passion for inspiring and innovating.

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Universal Smart Cards Universal Smart Cards is extremely proud to have received the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade.

Established in 2001 by Michael Smith and Chris Allen, Universal Smart Cards (USC) is a market leader in the manufacture and supply of smart products and solutions. The company was originally founded in Hertfordshire, and now has its Sales and Marketing teams based in Accrington, Lancashire with the Technical and Fulfilment centre in Portsmouth.

For many years USC has benefitted from international trade, winning business throughout Europe and the Middle East. The company also recently added important contracts in South America and Australia.

The key element of the proactive export strategy was to expand into the USA by opening a sales office there. Ultimately this had led to the company increasing its exports 10-fold and receiving the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade.

Sales and Marketing Director Paul May says: “We are all absolutely delighted to have received this award for all the hard work and commitment of the team.. I’d like to register my thanks – great team effort..

The innovative and awardwinning USC team

“We are confident of further success. We have recently added contactless payment devices to our portfolio, and we stand ready to reap the benefits as the contactless payment revolution sweeps across the globe, using wristbands and key fobs just the same as using our contactless cards.

“I have heard previous winners say that the

Queen’s Award helps boost business even further.

I look forward to telling that to future winners”.

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: A specialist global market access consultancy is celebrating achieving The Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade.

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Valid Insight VALID INSIGHT, a specialist global market access consultancy, established just three years ago, is celebrating achieving The Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade.

Valid Insight provides expert consultancy services that help guide clients in the pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industry to global market access success.

Since being established in 2016, the company has grown exponentially, with its international client base and sales expanding by almost 800%.

The accolade is in recognition of the outstanding success of the company’s growth strategy. In particular, following its work with client firms across Europe, the US and Japan, each involved in the development and commercialisation of medical treatments, diagnostics and devices across multiple therapy areas.

The company is now firmly established as a major brand in the market – and one that is used by leading pharmaceutical companies worldwide.

Valid Insight’s Founder and Managing Director, Steve Bradshaw, says: “We are honoured to receive the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade.

“We compete against a strong set of consultancy firms on a global level, and to win this award means that what we are doing is world class”.

As a field-based enterprise, Valid Insight is free from any geographical limitations that restrict some of its competitors.

The company benefits from being able to select the best staff to provide local support, in a global operation. On top of this, services are supported by world-leading experts with decades of market access, medical and commercial experience.

Steve adds: “Our flexible approach has achieved trusted partner status and repeat business with many top pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device companies worldwide. Our success is testament to the strength of our culture, the quality of our people, and their commitment to fostering strong client relationships. I would like to thank our team for all their help in our recent achievements.”

Valid Insight’s global network of opinion leaders, payers and expert consultants provides the pharmaceutical and Valid Insight’s innovative pricing and market access simulator app life sciences industry with strategic insight and tools to assist with difficult decision making, in often complex and uncertain marketplaces. The team at Valid Insight has extensive experience helping companies commercialise their medicinal products in all key global markets. They are renowned by top pharmaceutical clients for their hands-on, senior-led, pragmatic approach that produces concrete results throughout the entire life cycle of medical product development and commercialisation.

Valid Insight has also developed an app that allows companies to understand product market access and price potential early on, plus determine the focus of development and investment to bring optimal value at launch.

In only three years, Valid Insight has built a catalogue of pricing data on nearly 400,000 medicines over 38 markets; marketing authorisation insights for more than one million medicines; and has a proprietary network of over 1,500 payers, payer/HTA advisors and clinical key opinion leaders, covering all major and emerging markets.

Steve concludes: “To win the Queen’s Award strengthens our reputation as a leader in the field and we look forward to an exciting future.”

Some of the Valid Insight team fundraising for the charity Leuka

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: Experts in remote handling (robotics) and waste management solutions, from design to build, for extreme environments.

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Veolia Nuclear Solutions UK Veolia Nuclear Solutions UK (VNS-UK) is delighted to win a second Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade. The company is a world-leading provider of remote handling and waste management solutions for extremely hostile environments, with proven technology and a track record of providing innovative solutions in key sectors, including nuclear fusion, nuclear decommissioning, space and high-energy physics. Since winning the International Trade Award in 2014, its overseas sales have continued to grow extensively. It has managed to secure new contracts and is proud to be leading a UK consortium of companies working on the Fukushima Daiichi decommissioning programme in Japan.

The company was formed in 2000 as Oxford Technologies – a high technology spin-off from EFDA/JET. This was the European flagship project researching the feasibility of harnessing nuclear fusion as a viable energy source, where the company’s team of highly qualified, professional engineers were responsible for the delivery of the world’s first remote handling campaign inside a nuclear fusion reactor. It subsequently moved into the nuclear decommissioning sector, and in 2015 first joined Kurion, bringing together robotics and remote handling – then the Veolia Group. In 2017, Veolia brought all of its nuclear technologies into one business and launched Nuclear Solutions.

VNS-UK is now working on two major overseas projects. The company has been supporting the ITER Fusion project, currently being built in France, with remote handling expertise for a number of years.

The complex and international nature of this, and many of the projects in which the company has been involved, has created an organisation that is truly international in its outlook. More recently, the company has started working in close collaboration with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Japan on the design and construction of a unique, remotely controlled, boom-type robotic arm system to investigate the nature and location of nuclear fuel debris in the Unit 2 Reactor at the disabled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

The proposed solution, combining knowledge and experience

An investigation system for Fukushima Daichii

Demonstration of a remote handling system, as viewed from the control room

gained through its work in the nuclear fusion sector and demanding environments in the UK at Dounreay and Sellafield, is being delivered in four phases: outline design, detailed design, manufacture and assembly and test.

Similar technology approaches are being developed to look at sampling, and the ultimate retrieval, of fuel debris from what is seen as the most challenging decommissioning project in the world.

Since technology and science at this level cross national boundaries, the geographic location of projects and the multinational nature of customers and working teams is no barrier to its participation.

This is amply demonstrated by the fact that, in addition to work in the UK, France and Japan, the company has relationships with organisations in Belgium, Canada, Spain, Italy, Finland, Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

Sales Director Mark Sharpe says: “We are very proud to have received the Queen’s Award for Enterprise this year. It recognises the hard work, skill and dedication of every single person in the VNS team, without whose efforts we would not have been able to achieve this outstanding success.”

VEOLIA NUCLEAR SOLUTIONS (UK) LTD HQ Building, Harwell Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0GD • Tel: +44 (0)1235 522119 Email: VNS-UKsales@veolia.com Web: www.nuclearsolutions.veolia.com

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The Dexter™ manipulator can perform any task a human can, with the operator up to 8km away from the hazardous environment

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: Wren Laboratories Ltd - the company behind the UK’s most popular probiotics range, OptiBac Probiotics.

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Wren Laboratories Ltd Wren Laboratories is the company behind the UK’s most popular probiotics range, OptiBac Probiotics. Probiotics, also known as friendly gut bacteria, are increasingly thought by scientists to play an important role in maintaining a person’s overall health and wellbeing.

Add to this the use of antibiotics, pollution, stress, intensive farming, poor food choices and eating habits and it’s no surprise that gut health is a growing global concern. The category is expected to be worth almost $7 billion by 2022.

The extensive range of OptiBac Probiotics is developed in the world’s leading laboratories, and contains many of the most researched strains of probiotics. These high-quality supplements can be taken as part of a daily routine or used for more specific needs, such as support while on antibiotics and travelling abroad, or with immunity, intimate health and cholesterol.

Rated ‘Excellent’ on TrustPilot, the world’s most powerful independent online review platform, OptiBac Probiotics are sold to health food stores and pharmacies across the UK and Ireland and to many export markets across Europe and Asia.

The company has seen its overseas sales rise an incredible 350% between 2016 and 2018 and expects that trend to continue as the world adapts to the health challenges of the modern age.

At the heart of the company’s growth strategy is education. Jalal Janmohamed, Managing Director

Founders Farah, Jalal and Soraya Janmohamed

The Wren Laboratories Export Team with MD & co-founder Jalal

of Wren Laboratories comments: “Our unfaltering investment and commitment to educate on the benefits of friendly bacteria across the globe through our highly skilled teams of nutrition professionals and microbiology experts is helping to make probiotics an accessible, daily health choice to millions.”

It is this expertise, alongside the company’s dedicated training team, that has made Wren Laboratories an attractive partner for retailers, distributors, complementary and health care practitioners across the globe.

Wren Laboratories is a family-run business, employing over 80 people across Hampshire and London. Inspired by their father, a successful community pharmacist, siblings Jalal, Soraya and Farah founded the company in 2004 with the ambition to help people take better control of their own health and wellbeing.

Wren Laboratories takes great pride in being an ethical and socially conscious business. The company has raised over £192,000 for women’s rights charity, Womankind Worldwide through donations made from every pack sold of OptiBac Probiotics ‘For women’.

On receiving the award Jalal concludes: “We are honoured to receive this incredible accolade and the international recognition it brings. Thank you to everyone who has supported our business and our mission to make probiotics an accessible health choice.”

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VERIFILE Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: Yelo designs andCourt, manufactures test equipment for a range of industries, 5 Franklin Stannardautomated Way, Priory Business Park, Bedford, MK44 3JZ industrial, automotive, medical defence.

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Zip-Clip was set up on the Welsh borders in 2004, and has since developed over 30 product lines designed to reduce the component procurement, health and safety requirements and labour cost throughout the building industry.

Zip-Clip exports to over 30 countries outside the UK, with its products recognised by many international consultants and engineers.

The Zip-Clip range has been used on several prestigious The Zip-Clip range building projects worldwide has been used on many prestigious projects throughout the world, including the London 2012 Olympics, Canary Wharf, the American Embassy in London, Expo 2020 in Dubai, Marvel Amusement Park in Dubai, Dubai andentry Tour la Marseillaise in France to name but LOGO for anSki enhanced list continues to grow monthly as its product range develops ina few. the The Index of Contributors to meet the high design requirements associated with modern and If prestigious you have alsobuildings. ordered an enhanced entry to be placed in the Index of Contributors, then a proof of your logo is shown here on the right.

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Yelo Yelo is a Northern Ireland based manufacturer of automated test equipment for a range of industries, including industrial, photonics, automotive, medical and defence.

The multi-award-winning company was incorporated in 1983 with two people in a 400 square foot office. Today, it employs 50 people in a 25,000 square foot manufacturing facility.

During its first eight years, Yelo developed bespoke test systems. The first breakthrough came in 1991 when its maiden product, Testpoint, was launched. Still in production today, it is a bench top Electrical Test Equipment (ETE) system for functional testing of circuit boards, sub-assemblies and finished products.

Yelo is responsible for world class Testpoint heralded a successful 10-year period that saw the company engineering from its sell more than 600 systems across the UK. base in Co. Antrim, In the early 2000s Yelo developed what is now its largest growth area, Northern Ireland photonics testing. Specifically, the company manufactures equipment that tests the reliability of laser devices used in applications such as data centres, LiDAR and materials processing. This is done through a process called burn-in, and its goal is to ensure that devices achieve a minimum of 10 years’ manufacturers will benefit from Yelo’s years of experience in test and its operation without failure. knowledge of efficient manufacturing processes.

From 2016 to 2018 Yelo has had a period of significant success, opening Upon winning the Queen’s Award for Enterprise, Yelo’s Managing Director its new purpose built manufacturing facility and experiencing a substantial Richard Furey said: “This is a tremendous achievement for the company 138% growth in overseas sales. Its main export markets being the United and a great boost for the whole team. It is recognition of the world class States, China and Europe. engineering that takes place in Northern Ireland.”

Looking forward to 2019, Yelo continues to diversify with a number of new exciting R&D developments in the pipeline. Regardless of its YELO LIMITED international success, the company is still focused on growing its UK presence Trooperslane Industrial Estate, 20 Meadowbank Road, Co Antrim, BT38 8YF with a number of new test engineering projects, and is hopeful that UK Tel: +44 (0)28 9335 7300 • info@yelo.co.uk • www.yelo.co.uk

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Electronic Temperature Instruments Ltd We wanted to apply for the simple reason that The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are the UK’s most prestigious awards for business performance which recognise and reward outstanding achievement by UK companies.

Receiving such a prestigious accolade was a huge honour for our business.

What research did you do about the awards/ application process?

we researched each opportunity and chose a category that played to our strengths and reflected the fields that our business excels in.

How did you find the application process?

The process was straightforward but lengthy.

Well worth the time, planning and effort though.

Did you learn anything about your own company during the process?

WHERE BASED: Worthing, West Sussex

We set aside time to research the awards/ application process and we did this by using the Queen’s Award .GOV website to ensure we matched the criteria for the corresponding category. We also looked at other businesses who had previously won an award in the same category.

TYPE OF BUSINESS: Manufacturer of digital thermometers & probes

What planning did you do beforehand?

Did you engage other team members?

Applying for business awards can be a timeconsuming exercise so it was important that

A number of staff members were called upon for their input during the entry process and their

AWARD CATEGORY: Innovation SIZE OF COMPANY: 175 employees

PROFILE: Luisa Coates JOB TITLES: Marketing Manager

Completing the application encouraged us to review our business from lots of different viewpoints. The process provided an opportunity to adopt a new perspective on our business and encouraged us to identify our strategic strengths and weaknesses.

Company Background

Established in 1983 by Miriam and Peter Webb, Electronic Temperature Instruments Ltd is the UK’s leading manufacturer of digital thermometers and temperature probes.

The company’s most well-known product is arguably the SuperFast Thermapen®, Britain’s best-selling food thermometer and a favoured kitchen gadget of celebrity chefs and professional cooks alike.

The Sussex-based company has recently invested £500,000 in a new R&D facility in Worthing, reinforcing its commitment to support the local economy whilst continuing to successfully grow the business. This is the fourth time in six years that ETI Ltd has won The Queen’s Award.

What made ETI Ltd apply for a Queen’s Award?

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contribution and company knowledge was vital to the success of our entry.

Describe any challenges you overcame in the process?

Ensuring our application was clear and concise throughout as we were mindful that the judges are looking at a considerable amount of entries and we wanted to make an instant impact.

Now you’ve won an award, what advice would you give to others thinking of applying?

Gaining a Queen’s Award is highly regarded and one of the best ways of giving your business extra credibility. Start your application early as you may underestimate the time required to complete the application and take the

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opportunity to really shout about your business!

It may sound obvious to say read the criteria again and again but when entering a submission, it is very easy to get side-tracked or go off course.

Writing a submission can be intensive and the person writing it can become too close to the project.

Ask other staff members to proofread your entry to get a second opinion, or leave it alone and go back to it after a couple of days. You will be surprised at how many changes you will make.

How will you use your award to promote your business going forward?

We are very proud to fly The Queen’s Award flag at our head office and we use the emblem on all our marketing materials including packaging,

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advertisements, stationery and website.

Would you consider applying again in future?

We have been honoured to receive the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise four times since 2012 and the business is definitely planning to apply for a fifth in the near future.

What do you consider to be the benefits of being a Queen’s Award holder?

Winning a Queen’s Award is one of the most effective ways of growing your business.

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INNOVATION In 1966, when these awards were instigated by The Queen, companies could apply to win an award in the category of Export, Technology, or a combination of the both. In 2000, the awards were renamed The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise and the Technology category was updated to become Innovation, to better reflect developments in UK manufacturing and homegrown businesses.

The Innovation entries are consistently strong and this category boasts the second highest number of winners, with 72 for 2018.

The general eligibility criteria for The Queen’s Awards can be found on the website https://www.gov.uk/queensawards-for-enterprise/eligibility.

To apply for the Innovation award, your company must also meet the following additional criteria: l Have an innovation that has not been sold before; l Have had your innovation available on the market for at least two years;

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l Have recovered all the investments made in your innovation or show that the innovation will recover its full costs in future; and l Show outstanding commercial success as a result of innovation over two years – or continuous commercial success over five years.

Your innovation should be in one of the following categories: l Invention, design or production of goods; l Performance of services; l Marketing and distribution; or l After-sale support of goods or services.

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List of all winners in the Innovation category Her Majesty The Queen has been graciously pleased to confer her Awards in 2019 upon the following business units in recognition of their outstanding achievements in Innovation:

Ace Aquatec Ltd Innovative humane fish and crustacean slaughtering equipment for fish farms and wild catch vessels

Captec Ltd Tablet computers with enhanced specialised features, advanced multi-battery power management and high density charging stations

Feed Factors Limited A British-based commodity trading company, Feed Factors is involved in the import, export and distribution of grain and oilseeds

Belu Water Limited The Belu Filter Initiative simultaneously reduces environmental impact and transforms lives through restaurant water service

Chipside Limited Innovative provider of digital parking and permitting services

GTW Developments Group Ltd, trading as Airbond Experts in the science of fibre splicing, having developed innovative splicing technology

Biocatalysts Ltd A global speciality enzyme company with over 35 years of enzyme, application and manufacturing knowledge Bitrez Ltd Manufacturer of high-performance synthetic resins and matrix systems – and developer of Curaphen, an innovative alternative to BPAbased grades Buhler UK Ltd A pioneering company that has developed a unique camera technology, used in sorting machines, that has revolutionised food safety and plastic recycling rates Burland Technology Solutions Ltd Burland Technology Solutions Ltd have set new trends in the provision of reliable power distribution to companies worldwide Cantab Research Ltd (trading as Speechmatics) AI-powered technology improving the speed that new languages are built for B2B transcription products

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C-Kore Systems Limited Simplifying subsea testing by providing tools for fault finding, construction and decommissioning in the offshore industry Cloudfm Integrated Services Ltd Cloudfm has pioneered radical facilities management (FM) technologies, processes and training programmes focused on efficiency, quality and trust Createc 3D radiation imaging device for mapping nuclear facilities CTS Europe Ltd Worldwide Specialists in Design, Construction and Commissioning of mobile and bench mounted laboratory fume hoods and safety containment systems to the pharmaceutical industry Data Conversion Systems Ltd dCS is a designer and manufacturer of worldclass digital playback systems DriveWorks Ltd Design Automation, Product Configurator and Business Process Automation Software for Manufacturing

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industry, helping businesses to analyse and understand their commercial and operational fleets Infinity Reliance Limited TA My 1st Years The UK’s first children’s brand with fully automated text personalisation offering next day delivery INJ Associates Ltd (trading as Evidence Based Education) Providing teachers and school leaders with training and support to improve the quality of teaching and learning in schools Kohler Mira Ltd Kohler Mira Ltd’s Mira Showers is the UK’s leading manufacturer of mixer, electric, power and digital showers Laser Wire Solutions Ltd Innovative laser machines for precision removal of insulation from wires and cables Luminance Technologies Ltd trading as Luminance The leading artificial intelligence platform for the legal profession Lumishore Ltd Worlds only horizontally-aligned Superyacht underwater lighting system enabling graduated hull angles and optimising light output Markes International Limited Markes International is the leading manufacturer of equipment for the extraction and detection of lowlevel organic chemicals in air, solids and liquids Maximise IT Solutions Ltd Innovative software automation of complex back-office processes, improving quality and speed while reducing costs Medisafe UK Ltd Point of use pre-cleaning for complex / robotic instrument reprocessing

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Metro Security (GB) PLC The exciting new Metro Analytic Retail Solution (MARS) system has been developed by Metro Security (GB) Plc to help support High Street retailers Microlise Group Holdings Ltd Innovative telematics-based driver performance management technology enabling vehicles to be driven safely and more efficiently MR Solutions Group Ltd (formerly known as MR Solutions Ltd) Innovative PET technology incorporated into preclinical MRI and CT scanners for simultaneous or sequential imaging NABrown Ltd An innovative low cost moulding process using degraded recycled plastic to manufacture road sweeper brushes Niftylift Ltd Niftylift, one of the largest manufacturers of Mobile Elevating Work Platforms in Europe, has produced the award-winning HeightRider 28 4x4 Hybrid OPRO International Ltd Innovative instant fitting CE certified mouthguard that requires no boiling or moulding to fit Optos plc Optos is a leading provider of imaging devices to eyecare professionals worldwide Oxford BioDynamics Plc Developers of novel epigenetic biomarker technology to deliver personalised medicine Prometheus Medical Ltd The Prometheus Pelvic Splint has been designed to stabilise pelvic injuries in emergency prehospital environments

Qualasept Pharmaxo Holdings Limited Bath ASU is a world-leading business dedicated to providing the best possible treatment to cancer patients Retail Money Market Ltd, trading as RateSetter Giving people the opportunity to earn more on their money by lending directly rFpro Driving simulation software for the testing and training of autonomous vehicles SBG Sports Software UK Limited Developers of integrated video, data analysis and visualisation systems for elite sport, including RaceWatch, the strategy software for teams and race organisers SciChart Ltd SciChart designs and sells a software component for businesses to draw fast, visuallyappealing graphs, graphics and visualisations in scientific, medical, financial and engineering applications Semantics 21 Ltd Semantics 21 Ltd develops innovative software that delivers streamlined digital forensics investigations of child sexual abuse images and videos Silverlining Furniture Group Ltd Creating furniture as art, through innovative craftsmanship, advanced materials, technology and science Snap-on UK Holdings Leading manufacturer and supplier of automotive hand and power tools, diagnostic platforms, software and equipment Spectra Group (UK) Limited SlingShot is a small, lightweight system that extends the range of tactical radios beyond line of sight

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Stanhope-seta Limited An established, family-owned business that offers a unique, innovative range of quality control instruments across a diverse range of products Synectics Solutions Limited A well-established, hugely successful Fintech, predictive analytics and data services company Teemill Tech Ltd Teemill is a platform and connected, automated and circular fulfilment system for fashion Tenmat Limited Fire protection barrier which prevents the spread of fire behind the external cladding of buildings The Shadow Robot Company Limited The world’s most human-like robot hand to help solve real-world problems Therapy Box Limited Predictable is an app that provides a voice to people who are unable to speak Thompson Recycling and Landfill Limited Using innovation to create a high quality sustainable alternative to landfill and naturally sourced aggregates and sand Thorlux Lighting Designers, manufacturers and suppliers of professional lighting systems Tratos UK ltd Cable technology innovator TruNet ( UK ) Ltd A world leading manufacturer of meat netting, and innovator of the industry changing, patented Total Control Net Warwick Music Limited Warwick Music Group has notched up sales of more than a quarter of a million pBones – making it the world’s best-selling trombone

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Airbond AIRBOND, experts in the science of fibre splicing, has achieved a second Queen’s Award for Innovation.

The award recognises Airbond’s innovative patented splicing technology which delivers gamechanging improvements in operating costs for yarn processors in the textiles and the composites industries.

Graham Waters, managing director of Airbond, said: “We are delighted to have been awarded a second Queen’s Award for Innovation.

“This was a whole team effort, with every member of the company contributing to its success. I am proud and fortunate to work with such a talented and creative group of people.”

Airbond invested heavily in research and development to solve long-standing challenges faced by the composites industry when splicing carbon or glass fibres.

Some fibres, though longitudinally strong, are brittle. When exposed to compressed air they turn to dust, which is a problem Airbond patented technology solves.

Mr. Waters said: “Splicing is a mature technology which had stagnated for decades. We have invested heavily in research and development to get it right, catapulting it into the 21st century.”

Airbond’s research meant they were able to invent new and better forms of pneumatic yarn splicers.

This led to unique machines being developed that, for the first time, spliced modern composite materials efficiently and effectively.

These new products for the composites industry make joints in difficult yarns such as glass, carbon, acrylic precursors and Panox a reality.

When the machines began to sell, Airbond found resins used in many composites processes stuck to the splicer surfaces, inhibiting their performance.

This necessitated the development of a completely new, compact form of splicer mechanism.

The innovation was in the development of a smaller, simpler splicer unit without any loss of performance. Airbond developed smaller splicers to fit inside the casings and made the new splicer units more capable, and able to handle the larger fibres.

Airbond’s technology reduces operating costs for yarn producers in the textiles and composites industries

New machine designs keep splicing units hidden and protected inside a sturdy molded shell, making them much more durable. The outer shells are inexpensive, so they can be viewed as consumables if covered with resin, while the splicers themselves remain pristine.

Radical splicers can help composite manufacturers reduce waste levels by joining the new fibres with ease. The splicers are already in service, improving efficiency in plants worldwide.

Mr. Waters said: “It is heartening that our hard work is being increasingly recognised by our customers, with more and more companies seeing what our splicer can achieve.

This is a very exciting time for Airbond, and I am looking forward to delivering cutting edge precision splicing to help our clients save time, money and resources.”

Airbond provides solutions for all yarn splicing needs, especially new composite applications. It is now creating the next generation of pneumatic yarn splicer for the future.

Airbond remains committed to research and exports to 40 countries worldwide, including in the USA, with local support provided by its network of agents and distributors.

AIRBOND Unit 1, Pavilion Industrial Estate, Pontypool, NP4 6NF • Tel: +44(0)1495 755661 graham@airbondsplicer.com www.airbondsplicer.com

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: Manufacturer of high-performance synthetic resins and matrix systems – and developer of Curaphen, an innovative alternative to BPA-based grades.

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Bitrez Ltd BITREZ is proud to have been awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category for Curaphen. This is a bisphenol A (BPA)-free phenolic resin that is utilised in specialist lacquers employed in the coating of food and drink packaging.

Bitrez manufactures a range of high-performance synthetic resins and matrix systems, applied in specialist protective coatings, aerospace, defense, automotive and the construction sector.

A British company with an increasing global reputation for resolving problems and providing innovative products, the business is poised for significant expansion on the back of its technical expertise and outstanding reputation.

While BPA-based systems were the accepted coating of choice for the food and drink industry, with no negative issues surrounding their use, by the mid-2000s this changed due to a worldwide health scare and associated media coverage over the potential harm caused by BPA, particularly to expectant mothers and babies.

Although not universally banned, there was a strong possibility that BPA could be eliminated from some areas due to future legislative changes and media pressure.

In 2013, after several years of research, development, testing, trialing and rapid scale-up, Bitrez launched Curaphen as an alternative to BPA-based grades, for use with non-epoxy-based systems. Not only did Curaphen satisfy new regulations, but it also offered desirable processing and performance properties.

In the past five years Bitrez’s exports have increased and the company has doubled its capacity, necessitating a change to a 24-7 operation to ensure it can continue to meet with increasing demands.

Paul Jones, Bitrez Ltd Managing Director and formulator of the product, says: “I’m delighted that Bitrez has won the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise, especially in the innovation category.

Resolution of regulatory and technical problems is at

Paul Jones, MD of Bitrez Ltd, who formulated Curaphen

Bitrez is a British company with a reputation for providing innovative products

the heart of our business strategy and commitment to product development. This is what drives us to continue to design products like Curaphen.

“Being able to manufacture an alternative to conventional BPA derivatives, with equivalent performance, is a great example of the positive impact creative chemistry and ingenuity can have on our lives. This award celebrates everyone at Bitrez who worked so hard to bring the product to market, as well as the loyalty of our much-valued suppliers and customers who trust in our expertise and commitment to develop innovative products to comply with regulatory reform.”

Bitrez have an enviable reputation for innovation, and last year alone launched a further series of products to market, including the world’s first REACH-compliant ketamine epoxy curing agents and Curabox – flame retardant thermoset resins used in aerospace and other advanced composites.

Bitrez also offers toll conversion and the use of its facilities. Its manufacturing plant, which is COMAH [Seveso] and ISO 9001/14001/18001 compliant, comprises numerous reaction units from 3000 – 30,000 litre capacity. Its team of highly qualified and experienced chemists can produce materials from laboratory scale through to commercial manufacture. Bitrez also won Manufacturer of the Year 2019 at the Chemicals Northwest Awards.

BITREZ LTD Bradley Hall Trading Estate, Bradley Lane, Standish Wigan, WN6 0XQ Tel: +44(0) 1257 425512 Web: www.bitrez.com

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Burland Technology Solutions Limited Burland Technology Solutions Ltd, awarded the Queen’s Award for International Trade in 2016, are delighted to have been honoured in 2019 with a Queen’s Award for Innovation.

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Biocatalysts Ltd Biocatalysts Ltd is an innovative global biotechnology company that has been producing speciality enzymes for a variety of industries for over 35 years. The company has been built on an ethos of actively working with customers to develop enzyme-based solutions, to achieve what the customer requires.

Biocatalysts prides itself on providing in-depth technical knowledge and superb customer service. It does this by using the best technologies available and keeping abreast of the newest advancements impacting the biotech industry.

In 2010, Biocatalysts recognised it could use these developments to fundamentally change the process of how novel enzymes were discovered, developed and manufactured. The company’s aim was to provide a service that would identify, develop and commercialise an enzyme within months at a cost that was accessible to all.

Biocatalysts invested in both people and equipment, and within five years had developed a process that included a bespoke software system, MetXtra™, which is capable of screening millions of sequences to identify new enzymes in a few hours. This has reduced the early stages of enzyme discovery from years to a few weeks and enabled the supply of laboratory grade enzyme samples to

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Newly installed 500ml Minibio systems support enzyme development

customers for as little as £1000. These enzymes can then be developed and scaled up within months instead of a few years. Meaning companies can access enzymes in realistic time frames, giving them the opportunity to promptly produce new products in response to market trends.

Rod Sears-Black, Biocatalysts’ Managing Director, comments: “We are very proud to receive the Queen’s Award for Innovation. It recognises the dedication and commitment of the Biocatalysts team to create this unique offering to the market.”

Biocatalysts is a company that is continually

looking at how to improve its offering. The largest and most recent investment to date being a £6 million extension, housing a new 10m3 fermenter, high tech mini fermenters and downstream processing. This will increase the company’s fermentation capacity more than 10-fold and considerably reduce development time, ensuring Biocatalysts keeps its commitment to exceeding customers’ enzyme expectations.

BIOCATALYSTS LTD Cefn Coed, Parc Nantgarw, Cardiff, CF15 7QQ Tel: +44 (0)1443 843712 • www.biocatalysts.com

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: Captec innovates and develops market leading specialised computers for applications in transport,energy, healthcare, automation, communications, leisure and defence and security.

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Captec Ltd Captec is a high technology designer and manufacturer of specialised, certified and industrial computers, engineered to meet the requirements of any application, irrespective of complexity, environmental or operational demands. Its computer platforms keep its customers’ applications running reliably anywhere.

The team is delighted to have been recognised for the Queen’s Award for Innovation, which represents their second award, following a Queen’s Award for Enterprise-Export awarded in 2016.

Captec has been innovating and developing specialist computers since 1985, during which time it has grown to a recognised international industry leader with headquarters in Hampshire and a North American subsidiary in Canada. Working closely with a diverse set of customers in seven sectors, Captec is constantly innovating and developing market leading computers for applications in transport, energy, healthcare, automation, communications, leisure and defence and security.

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Chipside Founded by Paul Moorby OBE in 2003, CHIPSIDE is a specialist software development company providing digital ticketing and permitting products and services to more than half of all local and national government authorities in the UK. With 50 employees and operations in the UK and Asia, Chipside enables the simple, effective and efficient delivery of connected city initiatives.

The first digital platform of its kind, its automated processes deliver cost saving benefits and data analysis opportunities that were previously considered impossible. Chipside can help local authorities combine large datasets - such as analysis of traffic flows - with real-time on-street parking demand. This enables demand-led parking tariffs and informs decisions around traffic management policies, such as building new parking facilities and the development of resident parking schemes.

Chipside’s case management system enables local authorities’ back office teams to review representations against penalties, ensuring they are processed in accordance with the law and council policy. Permit and parking records can even be integrated directly with parking inspectors’ machines so they are unable to issue a penalty

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notice unless a car is in breach. This reduces the administration associated with managing enquiries and disputes and raises the perception of local authorities with members of the public.

Chipside reinvests in innovation to continually improve its software suite – introducing new services to customers such as back office notice processing and MiPermit cashless parking. Chipside developed digital permit platform MiPermit to enable the public to self-service their legal permit needs with local councils, towns, cities, or regional governments. It is now used by more than three million people in the UK alone.

While its largest sector is parking; MiPermit extends to include bus passes, boat mooring permits, beach hut rentals, city access permits, waste management permits and many more.

Chipside’s success has led it to be invited on overseas trade delegations in India, Spain and Taiwan, attracting new clients in Australia and Malaysia - with further global expansion anticipated.

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C-Kore Systems Limited C-Kore Systems was founded to bring modern testing technology to the subsea industry. It’s run by a team of dedicated designers and engineers who are passionate about making life easier for subsea engineers by developing fast, modern and reliable testing tools.

Working from a rural location near York, C-Kore Systems provides state of the art equipment for subsea electrical testing to customers worldwide.

Tim Overfield, Managing Director, says: “C-Kore Systems was created from Zetechtics Ltd, the global leaders in subsea control systems, who previously won a similar award in 2003.

“Traditionally, subsea electrical testing relied on down-lines (extremely long extension cables) connecting test equipment on a ship to the subsea infrastructure: a time consuming, expensive and dangerous process. In 2007, a conversation with a major UK oil company identified the need for a small, stand-alone subsea measurement tool that could quickly and easily find faults in the underwater C-Kore’s test electrical network. It was equipment from this conversation that the idea of C-Kore was can be used conceived and developed, 3,000m below to check the entry and confirm that it is either PROOF OF ENTRY IN test THE compressing all the passed for press, or provide clear instructions equipment into MAGAZINE a tiny QUEEN’S AWARD if amendments are required. You are very package that can be used welcome to email your comments to us at We have produced the following editorial to 3,000m under water. ian.blaza@queensawardsmagazine.com the best of our understanding of your requireIn 2014 C-Kore Systemsyou have (this is our preferred option) or else you can ments, and using the text & materials call us on 01536 520654 Ltd was formed, kindly supplied to us.

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CTS Europe CTS Europe design, manufacture and supply bench mounted laboratory fume hood cabinets and safety enclosures to the pharmaceutical and chemical industry worldwide.

Formed in 2010, CTS Europe have grown from 3 to 26 staff and has built a reputation worldwide for providing containment solutions for handling high hazard drugs in the laboratory. The CTS product portfolio includes safety enclosures for powder weighing, test equipment and climatic control.

In addition, CTS also provide specialist test equipment and training for analysts handling high hazard drugs.

The Queens Award recognises the innovation of Lab-Bubble™, a new type of portable benchtop laboratory fume hood. Thanks to the development process required to bring the Lab-Bubble™ to market, CTS have been able to increase capabilities both technically and commercially, paving the way to

new product developments and new business opportunities worldwide.

“Winning the Queens Award for Innovation is a great achievement and a stepping stone for our business. This is the result of the ability, commitment and enthusiasm that the CTS team bring to work every day. It also represents a great success for UK design and Manufacture” says Sean Codling, CTS Managing Director.

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: Cloudfm has pioneered radical facilities management (FM) technologies, processes and training programmes focused on efficiency, quality and trust.

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Cloudfm In an industry often dismissed as just a ‘support service’ Cloudfm stands out. For its team, facilities management (FM) is not simply an opportunity to profit from outsourcing efficiencies, but a way to make the world a better place – for consumers, workers and business leaders.

Its founders are two former engineers who progressed to senior positions at some of the industry’s biggest players. They experienced first hand the challenges that have threatened even the giants of the industry over the past couple of years.

Although outsourcing has long been an engine of the UK’s economic growth, lack of investment in FM particularly has hampered efforts to collect accurate or useful management information. In turn, this has led to mistrust from clients and extreme pressure on providers’ margins – further curtailing investment and feeding a vicious cycle that reduces skills, pay, safety, value and productivity.

And this matters. FM represents 8% of UK GDP, and employs one in 10 people in this country.

FM maintains the safety, utility and appeal of the built environments we all use every day. But cost cutting, profiteering and complacency ensure that

Chief Executive and co-founder of Cloudfm, Jeff Dewing

pay in the sector has been stagnant for 20 years, levels of statutory compliance are shockingly low, and mistrust is rife. The impact of this is wasted resources, heightened risk to the public, and sub-standard working and leisure environments.

Cloudfm’s founders set out to show the FM industry that a better way is possible. Starting from a blank canvas, they designed radical technologies, processes and training programmes focused on efficiency, quality and trust.

The Cloudfm technology platform is the only one of its kind to be fully paperless, connecting engineers, contractors, back office staff and Cloudfm’s helpdesk. The system is unique in capturing and displaying all relevant information in real time, to all parties involved in the process.

The Cloudfm process is the only end-to-end integrated process in use in the FM industry. With a 100% enforced workflow, there is no scope for

A state-of-the-art training centre ensures Cloudfm’s employees are armed with the very best skillsets

Cloudfm is able to save its clients a substantial percentage on FM expenditure

work to be non-compliant, incomplete, or below standard. And all its contractors abide by the same stringent guidelines. The efficiency of the process means the company can pay some of the highest rates in the industry, while consistently saving its clients money.

The Cloudfm Academy training programme maintains and enhances the skillsets of everyone on the Cloudfm team, as well those of its contractors. From the only truly multi-skilled engineering team in the industry, to the only technically-trained helpdesk, to experts in compliance and auditing that exist nowhere else, Cloudfm team members have more skills and better opportunities than their counterparts in any comparable organisation.

The power of this formula is clear. Cloudfm delivers the highest verified rates of compliance in the industry, and market-leading scores on

all verifiable measures of quality. But, most importantly, Cloudfm is able to save its clients a substantial percentage on FM expenditure, and does so consistently and sustainably. This is a unique proposition, which has seen it grow from a sub £5m turnover to over £75m in the past four years, with no acquisitions or external funding.

Its clients include some of the best-known brands in the UK, and its expansion continues apace, with this year’s focus being on international growth and new technologies. If you are responsible for a number of buildings, then the Cloudfm team may be able to help you.

CLOUDFM Cloudfm House, Charter Court, Newcomen Way, Severalls Industrial Park, Colchester, CO4 9YA Tel: +44 (0) 844 357 3560 cloudfmgroup.com

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: Design Automation, Product Configurator and Business Process Automation Software for Manufacturing.

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Glen Smith, CEO of DriveWorks Ltd

Overall, customers benefit from shorter lead times and greater satisfaction. CEO Glen Smith says: “We are thrilled and honoured to receive two highly coveted awards. The Award for Innovation is tangible recognition of the vision and passion for technology that inspires our entire team.”

DriveWorks’ design automation and online 3D configurators on www.driveworkslive.com

Continuous innovation

DriveWorks is a software development company and a double Queen’s Award winner this year. The company’s innovative, rules-based software is typically used for automating manufacturing design and business processes.

The benefits of using DriveWorks’ technology can be applied to any company that wants

to sell customisable or configurable items.

Offering personalised or custom designs is a highly profitable way of adding value to a business, as well as building brand and customer loyalty.

By focusing on usability, DriveWorks empowers companies to use the software to create and maintain their own configurators. This sets DriveWorks apart from other configurator solutions on the market.

From the outset, DriveWorks has been committed to innovation. It is also a SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD Certified Gold Partner and Microsoft Development Partner.

The DriveWorks team are agile and responsive to emerging markets and opportunities.

They currently have projects spanning Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality.

Save time, win more orders

Automatically generated sales and manufacturing documents

Using DriveWorks, companies can quickly and easily display configured products online in 3D. They can also automatically generate accurate quotes and sales documentation.

As DriveWorks has been developed to connect sales and engineering, the software also automates the creation of downstream manufacturing drawings and production data.

Companies that embrace DriveWorks’ rules-based approach win more orders, reduce errors and are more profitable

DriveWorks’ 3D technology on www.razor-maker.com

With growing interest in 3D printing, DriveWorks has been working as a technology partner with The Gillette Company on Razor Maker, a public website where anyone can configure and order personalised 3D printed razor handles.

DRIVEWORKS LTD The Barley Store, Laskey Lane, Thelwall, Cheshire, WA4 2TF • Tel: +44 (0)1925 757585 sales@driveworks.co.uk www.driveworks.co.uk

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: dCS is a designer and manufacturer of world-class digital playback systems.

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Data Conversion Systems Ltd (dCS) Cambridge-based dCS, designer and Each of its award-winning product ranges manufacturer of world-class digital playback sets the standard within its class for technical systems, is thrilled to receive the Queen’s excellence and musical performance.

Award for Enterprise: Innovation 2019 for its As a result, dCS digital playback systems are technology, which was developed to power unrivalled in their ability to make music. its flagship Vivaldi series.

Left: dCS’ Ring DAC™ “Vivaldi was a hugely important project for dCS, because we had to look many years into the All dCS products are designed future,” says Managing Director and manufactured in the David Steven. “Back in 2010 United Kingdom, using we believed there was an proprietary technology, unrealised demand for a materials and components solution that would provide of the highest quality. state of the art music playback A carefully judged balance from any digital source (legacy of the company’s unique compact discs to computer heritage and world-class file playback) in a connected engineering ensures there is a home. With Vivaldi our goal was to rich history of ground-breaking the entry and confirm that it isa either passed PROOF OF ENTRY IN THE LOGO for an enhanced entry innovation inside every dCS system. develop number of key technologies for press, or providethat clearwould instructions take advantage in of these QUEEN’S AWARD MAGAZINE the Index of Contributors if amendments are required. You are very opportunities and overcome the many technical DATA CONVERSION SYSTEMS LTD welcome to email your comments to us at We have produced the following editorial to the If you have also ordered an enhanced entry to challenges we had identified. ” Unit 1, Buckingway Business Park, Swavesey, ian.blaza@queensawardsmagazine.com best of our understanding of your requirements, be placed in the Index of Contributors, then a Since 1987, at theofforefront Cambridgeshire, (this is our preferred option) or elsedCS you has can beenproof and using the text & materials you have kindly your logo is shown here on the right. CB24 4AE call us on 01536 520654. of digital audio, creating world-beating, supplied to us. Would you please care to check Tel:the +44 (0)1954 233950 • Email: info@dcsltd.co.uk Note that, for lifetechnical reasons, size of dCS’ award-winning enhancing products that areentry a unique synthesis of may Web: n @dCSonlythemusic in the printed product varywww.dcsltd.co.uk slightly Company description Vivaldi in thesystem ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: exact science and creative imagination. from that shown here. This option will also Z @dCSonlythemusic z @dCSonlythemusic A British-based commodity trading company, Feed Factors is involved in the import, export and distribution of grain and oilseeds.

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Feed Factors Limited A British-based commodity trading company, Feed Factors was founded in 1987 and is involved in the import, export and distribution of grain and oilseeds. Its customers, both national and international, are processors of agricultural commodities to supply food for human consumption and animal feed.

The company is delighted to have been awarded a Queen’s Award for Enterprise, in the category of Innovation, for the processing of organic corn in the UK for re-export to the United States.

In 2012, the US organic market (the largest in the world) was growing so rapidly that it required new sources of product.

The US predominantly grows geneticallymodified crops, which are not permitted under organic regulations. Significant quantities of Eastern European corn were available to the team at Feed Factors – but they were prohibited for entry in the US, which bans the import of many origins of grain to protect new seed varieties being introduced, and prevent the spread of pathogens, weeds and disease.

The team identified an opportunity to design and construct custom-made machinery to service this new market. They constructed mobile

The Feed Factors team constantly strive to improve efficiency

Feed Factors’ strategic partners include Superior Machines Ltd

‘cleaning and cracking’ plants, which enabled their use at any of the company’s UK port locations.

This innovative process was approved by the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) for importation of organic cracked corn.

Significant challenges have been overcome over the years, with newly-designed machines built for higher capacity and greater robustness.

Through these re-designs, Feed Factors has improved the process time to load a vessel from 42 days to just seven days.

In 2017, its exports to the US accounted for 40% of the company’s turnover. This success

is owing to the dedication of the Feed Factors team in consistently striving for greater capacity and efficiency. They would also like to thank the company’s strategic partners who have supported Feed Factors during its journey.

These strategic partners include Superior Machines Limited, JED Crushing Limited and Grainco Limited.

FEED FACTORS LIMITED The Gallery, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond TW9 1EH Tel: +44 (0) 208 332 1550 • trading@feedfactors.com www.feedfactors.com

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Huntleigh As a proud member of the Arjo family, Huntleigh has been committed to supporting healthcare professionals in improving outcomes and enhancing patient wellbeing since 1979. It does this through its proven solutions for vascular assessment and treatment, and fetal and patient monitoring.

With innovation and customer satisfaction as their guiding principles, its team strives for clinical excellence and improved performance.

The Cardiff-based company has been awarded a Queen’s Award for Innovation in recognition of its new range of digital handheld Dopplers.

This award identifies where state of the art design combines with the highest levels of quality and performance. Designed to perform when you need it most, the new Dopplers offer reliability that clinicians can depend on, making their jobs easier, safer and more efficient.

Innovative features in the new products help clinicians to make quicker and more accurate assessments, providing benefits to both user and patient. Peter Cashin, MD of Huntleigh, says: “Good design can improve patient care and clinical effectiveness. Features we have introduced, such as the high resolution colour display, represent a first for handheld Dopplers.

FHR data is displayed in high visibility numbers and recorded digitally

“This allows clinicians to clearly see vascular waveforms, as well as hear digital audio sounds.

In the fetal heart rate (FHR) version, the FHR data is displayed in high visibility large numbers and recorded digitally as a waveform for archiving and review.”

The Cardiff facility provides a global centre of excellence for a range of Arjo and Huntleigh products. Employing more than 60 engineering staff, the centre provides a stable platform for further innovations in the future.

Joacim Lindhoff, President and CEO of Arjo AB, adds: “We are honored and proud of this recognition.

“This marks a significant achievement for our team in Cardiff, and confirms that we are developing innovative products that offer our customers an excellent experience, through both performance, functional benefits and a desirable design.”

HUNTLEIGH 35 Portmanmoor Road, Cardiff, CF24 5HN Tel: +44 (0)29 2048 5885 Email: sales@huntleigh-diagnostics.co.uk Web: www.huntleigh-healthcare.com @Huntleighdiag

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Ideal Boilers Ideal Boilers has won a Queen’s Award for Innovation

Leading heating solutions manufacturer IDEAL BOILERS has been honoured with a Queen’s Award for Enterprise, in recognition of its outstanding achievements in Innovation.

As the only boiler manufacturer that designs, develops and manufactures all of its products in the UK, Ideal’s boilers have become renowned for their energy efficiency, reliability and simplicity of use – recognised in 2013 when the business won its first Queen’s Award for Enterprise, again in the Innovation category.

The past six years have seen a continued commitment to innovation through the evolution of the Ideal Production Process (IPP), which eliminates potential faults during manufacture, and therefore minimises disruption for customers caused by boiler breakdowns.

During assembly, each boiler must pass 200 quality standard checks to prevent mistakes being passed from one stage of production to the next.

Bluetooth camera technology automatically follows the operator’s every move to check each task has been completed accurately – and to increase employee engagement with the process, each individual boiler is assembled by one person from start to finish.

When it comes to testing the assembled products, Ideal Boilers has successfully invented a new way of using compressed air to mimic the operation of water and gas. Combined with the use of robotic cameras to test every single point

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on the boiler, this process is energy efficient and 100% accurate, to ensure every product sent onto packaging and dispatch is perfect.

The success of the IPP means boiler warranties have been extended to 12 years; built into the price of the appliance to give customers extra peace of mind at almost zero cost. Since the implementation of the new IPP, call-out rates to repair broken down Ideal Boilers have halved.

Improvements in energy efficiency and reliability have set Ideal Boilers apart from the competition, both in the UK and further afield.

The Logic System IE is the most popular domestic boiler in Ireland, where Ideal has 40% market share.

Products are adapted for export, which, for example has seen boilers designed to be installed on balconies successfully drive sales in Italy.

Further products have been developed specifically in response to demand from overseas, such as renewable energy air-source heat pumps.

Export is a dynamic area of growth for the business, which applies the lessons learned in one territory to its strategy in others. Other markets where notable successes have been achieved – in both domestic and commercial sales – are Turkey and Spain.

Shaun Edwards, CEO at Ideal Boilers, commented: “Innovation, quality and value are our founding principles – and winning a Queen’s Award for Innovation is testament to the way we live and breathe these principles throughout our business.

“We’ve been providing the best quality boilers to our customers for over 100 years, continually working to meet their ever-evolving heating needs. We’re proud to be leading the industry in setting new standards and challenging technological boundaries, building on our rich heritage as we look to the future.”

IDEAL BOILERS LIMITED Ideal Boilers, National Avenue, Hull, East Yorkshire, HU5 4JB • Tel: +44 (0)1482 492251 enquiries@idealboilers.com www.idealboilers.com

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Kohler Mira Ltd Mira is the UK’s leading manufacturer of mixer, electric, power and digital showers. The Cheltenham-based business has led the way in product innovation since it was established in 1921.

The brand is delighted to receive their second Queen’s Award, this time for the innovative Mira Sport Max electric shower. This product uses patented Mira Airboost™ technology to increase water flow by up to 30%, without using any additional water.

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KOHLER MIRAinLTD / MIRA SHOWERS Company description the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: Cromwell Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL52 5EP Incremental Solutions creates innovative monitoring technologies for the transport industry, helping businesses to analyse and understand their commercial and Tel: +44 (0)800 001 4040 • Web: www.mirashowers.co.uk operational fleets.

Laser Wire Solutions develops cutting-edge laser technology for the stripping and connection of specialist high value wires and cables used in a range of industries.

In 2017 the company launched a revolutionary new laser machine, the Odyssey-4, for medical device manufacturers, which can strip Laser Wire Solutions’ team in 2018 receiving the the tough enamel coating from microscopic wires found in catheters Queen’s Award for Enterprise, International Trade to open clogged arteries, disperse blood clots and regulate heart arrhythmias, as well as other delicate wires found in cochlear implants, hearing aid devices and ultrasound cables.

The Odyssey-4 provides a more automated, clean, accurate and validated method of stripping medical wires – and therefore triumphs over manual methods. The manual scraping of wires under a microscope relies heavily on a technician’s skill and can lead to high value scrappage, as well as in-test or in-use failure.

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Incremental Solutions Founded in 2014, Incremental Solutions is Incremental’s work is particularly beneficial a York-based leading technology provider for timetable verification and incident of smart transport systems, specialising management, where its solutions can pinpoint in rail, with an experienced team from the exact track positions on the rail network to commercial software, engineering, business advise and assist incident response teams. management and transport industries.

Additionally, the company’s technology This combination of talent has provided solid can predict the resulting effect on the foundations for Incremental Solutions, and network – therefore helping to inform effective enabled the company to collaborate with many contingency planning. of the UK’s leading rail operators to implement Its core objective remains to develop innovative solutions that exploit the value of solutions that will create the foundation for their vehicular data. the future of smart transport networks.

The innovative use of a combination of Of the award, Daniel Lee-Bursnall, technologies, including global positioning co-founder and Commercial Director, says: systems, geo-spatial analysis and online “To say we’re incredibly proud is something enterprise-class applications, generate detailed of an understatement. performance insights, actively monitoring for “This level of recognition is outstanding Founders Daniel Lee-Bursnall (left) and Lewis Gill emerging problems. This enables transport and full credit must go to the Incremental operators to both analyse and improve their team and our partners for the hard work fleet performance based on the data provided and, additionally, to negate they do. There’s a real opportunity to improve the rail and transport network’s maintenance issues – optimising efficiency. performance with the clever use of technology, and we’re delighted to be Reflecting on the significance of the award, co-founder and Managing Director based in York, helping to lead that change.”

Lewis Gill says: “Receiving this award is testament to the fantastic efforts of the whole Incremental team. Our systems deliver invaluable improvements to the INCREMENTAL SOLUTIONS LTD everyday journeys made on UK transport networks. Being recognised as an Innovation Centre, Innovation Way, York Science Park, York, YO10 5DG outstanding R&D-led company will help us to continue to bring state-of-the-art Tel: +44 (0)1904 435100 • contact@incrementalsolutions.co.uk solutions to market and further our reputation of excellence in innovation.” www.incrementalsolutions.co.uk

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METRO SECURITY (GB) PLC The exciting new Metro Analytic Retail Solution (M.A.R.S) has been developed by Metro Security (GB) Plc to help hard-pressed High Street retailers. The system combines demonstrable loss prevention results to combat shop-floor ‘shrinkage’, while simultaneously providing stores with a range of retail management, operational, marketing and staff training tools.

The multi-functional M.A.R.S system uses class leading digital technology to provide retailers with an effective and – importantly – cost-efficient, value-added way to improve their increasingly pressured bottom-line profitability. In today’s online era the retail environment for physical stores is an intensifying challenge. Faced with tough trading conditions on the High Street, many retailers simply do not have the budgets to pay for systems that address security risks alone.

M.A.R.S provides the ideal solution to this dilemma, while also helping to pay for itself.

M.A.R.S is already helping a crosssection of retailers, including forecourt fuel operators’ retail shops, high street stores and independent retailers, while also monitoring multiple stores and sites simultaneously. One wellknown High Street chain has delivered a 70% reduction in losses, and a 65% reduction in audit costs, across hundreds of its outlets around both the UK and some 20 other European countries using M.A.R.S.

How M.A.R.S works

The system’s sophisticated analytical software ‘engine’ interfaces with hardware, including highresolution megapixel closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras, in-store electronic point-of-sale (Epos) equipment and other inputs, such as related audio of suspect transactions and reliable facial recognition technology.

M.A.R.S cost-effectively addresses a range of shop floor ‘shrinkage’, fraud, theft and other loss prevention issues, which negatively impact retailers’ important bottom-line profitability.

It eliminates lengthy, time-consuming loss prevention investigations by providing quick and easy data retrieval using straightforward search parameters.

Event-driven image recordings are stored, enabling system operators to filter and refine their search criteria by, for example, product type,

Above: Metro Security’s staff celebrate their 2019 Queen’s Award for Enterprise Left: M.A.R.S is helping High Street retailers become more efficient and profitable

voids, payment method and other definable options. The system addresses shrinkage by ensuring that items being scanned into the till are actually purchased from the store.

M.A.R.S’ innovative, multipurpose applications also allow store owners and managers to successfully tackle fraudulent credit transactions and spurious refunds, while enabling the monitoring of multiple stores and sites simultaneously.

This additionally includes the operational ability to check store deliveries and movements remotely, via PC, tablet or smartphone.

The system combines its range of loss prevention capabilities with a variety of innovative, added-value benefits, which enable the system to pay for itself by providing tangible operational, management, marketing and customer care benefits.

Added-value applications

While using M.A.R.S’ demonstrable loss prevention capabilities, retailers of all types and operational size can simultaneously benefit from this innovative system’s non-security features. These added-value M.A.R.S applications range from helping to redesign a store’s layout to improve

its operational efficiency, increase footfall and boost revenue, through to engaging returning customers with targeted marketing messages.

Meanwhile, store managers can dial in to a store remotely to make checks without having to physically visit.

M.A.R.S also assists with staff training and can be used as a motivational tool – such as an employee being singled out for praise after selling the most gift cards in a pre-defined period.

M.A.R.S’ USPs

Retailers have previously been able to use systems offering some elements of M.A.R.S’ functionality, such as data mining. However, the wide-ranging, integrated and holistic functionality of M.A.R.S’ loss prevention features – combined with its added-value management functionality, aimed at simultaneously improving store profitability – has not previously been available in one system.

Additionally, no one system has been useable across markedly different types and size of retail applications, ranging from an independent shop to forecourt kiosk environments, and rising in scale to multiple outlet High Street chains.

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Oxford BioDynamics Plc Oxford BioDynamics is extremely proud For the wider pharmaceutical industry, to have received the Queen’s Award for the development of this platform can now Enterprise in Innovation. reduce risk, cost and time to market for Spun out of the University of Oxford in drug development; gain significant insight 2007, Oxford BioDynamics is a biotechnology into disease mechanisms, and personalise company with a proprietary discovery platform therapeutic treatments. called EpiSwitch™, which identifies and analyses Over the past year, Oxford BioDynamics has biomarkers. These biomarkers can be used to made significant commercial and operational diagnose diseases, predict disease progression, advances, including strengthening its and help identify which patients will respond global IP portfolio; partnering with worldto specific drugs – delivering personalised renowned biotechnology, pharmaceutical medicine. and academic institutions. It has entered into This award recognises Oxford BioDynamics’ multiple research and development projects outstanding achievements in scientific for commercial customers in diverse fields The Oxford team at the Quorum Reference Laboratory facility. innovation and commercial success with including immuno-oncology, fibrosis and EpiSwitch™, highlighting the company’s thyroid cancer. dedication to discover real-world solutions to otherwise unmet medical Christian Hoyer Millar, CEO of Oxford BioDynamics, says: “Our business needs. is extremely proud to have received the Queen’s Award for Enterprise. It DNA, a person’s hereditary material, is packaged into chromosomes. comes at an exciting time for the company as we continue to expand into EpiSwitch™ looks at changes that occur in the way chromosomes are folded, new geographies, increase our commercial capacity and work to build so called ‘Chromosome Conformation Signatures’ (CCSs). CCSs are a type of a strong and reliable platform for the considerable benefit of patients epigenetic biomarker based on the latest advances in the regulatory genome worldwide.” architecture and its link to clinical outcomes. Epigenetic markers are features that are on top of, or in addition to, the traditional genetic controls. With this OXFORD BIODYNAMICS PLC highly innovative technology, Oxford BioDynamics has already completed 26 Beaumont Street, Oxford, OX1 2NP 8 Tel: +44 (0)1865 518910 studies into the potential detection and early diagnosis of life-changing Fax: +44 (0)1865 511418 • info@oxfordbiodynamics.com diseases including cancer, ALS and Huntington’s disease. www.oxfordbiodynamics.com

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Optos Plc OPTOS is a world-leading manufacturer of retinal imaging technology to eyecare professionals. Its products, which are designed and manufactured at its headquarters in Fife, support the prevention of vision loss by helping to find signs of disease sooner.

It was founded in 1992 by Douglas Anderson who, following his young son going blind in one eye after suffering from a retinal detachment, set out to create a simple, patient-friendly retinal imaging product.

Optos is the only company in the world that can provide ultra-widefield (UWF™) technology to examine the periphery of the retina, where the early signs of disease and sight loss can be found.

Its devices can capture a 200-degree view, or 82%, of the retina, where competitor products typically only capture up to 60-degrees. This is achieved in a single, non-contact UWF image in less than half a second.

Now a three-time Queen’s Awards winner, having previously received the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade in 2007 and 2001, this year Optos has been awarded for its innovation with the design of an imaging device called California.

Above: Optos’ revolutionary California device Left: The Optos team are world leaders in the field of retinal imaging Below: The retinal imaging offered by the company’s California device enables diseases to be identified and managed at their very early stages

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Optos has a very strong market position, particularly in the optometry market with its Daytona device.

Optos developed the California device to expand the functionality offered, and so provide an enhanced technology that would meet the exact needs of ophthalmologists and optometrists.

The California offers UWF technology that is supported by data collected from 650 clinical studies, demonstrating the importance of imaging the retinal periphery to identify diseases and manage diagnoses.

The product’s innovative optical design provides high resolution images showing fine detail, whether viewing 200-degrees of the retina, or zoomed to inspect sections in even greater detail.

The technology found in the California has been the catalyst for putting Optos at the forefront of the retinal imaging market.

Pioneering design

Along with its technological capabilities, it was important that the California’s design and features fitted with the needs of Optos’ future customers and their patients.

The Optos engineering team designed a configurable device featuring new modalities, high-resolution images that were easy use and

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great value. It is available in three models with six imaging modalities, making it adaptable to the needs and budgets of every eye clinic.

The image quality was further enhanced to make it clearer for customers so they can better educate patients on any potential problems or diseases identified. The design also allows for older patients and children to move into the desired imaging position with ease, improving both the patient experience and the quality of image.

This gives customers peace of mind knowing that everything is being captured, and means any potential problems can be found.

Customers have reported an enhanced level of patient care from using California. They can now identify diseases and issues that previously went unnoticed, therefore reducing the risk of patient vision loss.

With images now taking less time to capture, an improvement in practice efficiency has also been reported.

One testimonial from a UK consultant ophthalmologist and vitreoretinal surgeon lays out the benefits of this technology first-hand: “Having California as part of our diagnostic armamentarium allows us to diagnose and treat patients more confidently and sometimes even at an earlier stage,” says Prof. Paulo E Stanga, Consultant Ophthalmologist and Vitreoretinal Surgeon at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital.

This Optos innovation is saving the sight of patients, improving practice efficiency and giving customers across the world reassurance that they are receiving the most advanced care possible in the fight against vision loss.

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Qualasept Pharmaxo Holdings Limited T/A Bath ASU The pharmaceutical manufacturing sector has a high rate of innovation. The never-ending quest for better patient outcomes is the mother of this invention, with pharmacists and scientists continually striving for improved treatments and processes that give patients that little bit more relief.

The major pharmaceutical brands by no means have a stranglehold on this, and up and down the country there are far smaller businesses and research units dedicated to nothing else. This brings us to the ostensibly quiet little market town of Corsham in Wiltshire.

In a trading estate on the edge of the town, you can find Bath ASU, a business only established as a commercial entity in 2006, dedicated to providing the best possible treatment to cancer patients.

Entirely privately funded, the ethos of the business has been founded on innovation – an approach that has resulted in it becoming a rapidly growing significant local employer.

The core business of Bath ASU surrounds highly trained production staff operating under rigorously controlled processes in aseptic facilities, transferring doses of chemotherapy drugs into ready-to-administer devices, which are then packaged and dispatched to hospitals and nurses for home administration.

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several thousands of pounds each. This was an inherent weakness that had a profound impact on not just patient outcomes, but also on the hospitals’ capacity and ability to treat patients effectively.

Bath ASU was determined to find a way to overcome this critical weakness – and, in 2011, established a research and development unit, working in collaboration with the University of Bath, specifically tasked with finding a solution.

To be successful, the R&D unit had to prove that it was technologically possible, and change the way NHS hospitals operate. After years of dedicated work, the NHS Pharmaceutical Quality Assurance Committee ratified the approach by adopting a new standard, enabling Bath ASU to offer biologics to the market with shelf lives extended up to a maximum of 84 days.

The effect on cancer patients and on the hospitals that treat them has been profound.

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“We have no in-house unit of our own and the extended stability allows us to outsource as batch, which has tremendous benefits to staffing capacity, saving time and resource and enabling us to focus on the patients rather than on the drugs.

“There is a real added benefit here in that the extended shelf life dovetails beautifully with a directive from NHS England which has called for dose banding and standardisation of chemotherapy treatments. This means that patients are assessed according to their illness and personal criteria and prescribed drugs accordingly.

“Extending the shelf life means that we can keep more drug lines as stock and administer them to a range of patients within the prescribed dose band.

Extending the shelf life has directly made this possible and the result is that the entire process is improved, with much greater flexibility and less procurement pressure, and far more patient focus.

“We’re the smallest acute hospital trust in England and we can’t afford to have waste in the services we provide, especially with the very high cost of many of the specialised chemotherapy drugs.

“Before the advent of the extended shelf life products it was common for us to waste an

average of £5,000 a month because patients would be too unwell to be treated. The short shelf life innate in the drugs meant that we had to destroy them and order replacements. The extended shelf life products have saved, typically, at least 80% of this wastage, and that has made a significant difference to the way we operate.

“More importantly though, the products have transformed the patient experience. Previously, patients would have to wait, commonly, for three

The products have transformed the patient experience.

Previously, patients would have to wait for three or four hours for treatment… now they can turn up and go straight into pre-med Andrew McKendrick of the Weston Area Health NHS Trust

or four hours because we wouldn’t start to prepare their treatments until we knew they were going ahead. With long shelf life products we can plan several days ahead and book in more patients every day. They can turn up, go straight into pre-med, have the drugs administered and then go home. If they aren’t well enough to attend or are assessed on the day as not fit for treatment the product isn’t wasted, it goes back onto the shelf and can either be used for the same patient at a later date or given to a different patient.

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administered to patients in different locations rather than them having to travel to the hospital,” he explains. “Having products with extended shelf lives allows us to order in advance, freeing up production capacity. The result of all this is that the range and number of patients using this mobile service is increased.

“The extended shelf life products have significantly contributed to what is a fundamental change in the approach to chemotherapy treatment throughout this region. They’ve provided us with far greater freedom to plan capacity and contingency resulting in a significant reduction in wastage and a much-improved experience for the patient.”

Bath ASU’s Director Chris Watt says that the Queen’s Award for Innovation is a significant milestone for Bath ASU. “It is extremely gratifying to see the dedication and commitment of the team directly resulting in a better experience for cancer patients, and providing a major helping hand for oncology units in hospitals throughout the country.

“The recognition of all of this with the Queen’s Award is a tremendous reward, not just for the R&D team, but for the entire business and every single member of staff. We are all delighted and deeply honoured.”

QUALASEPT PHARMAXO HOLDINGS LIMITED 3 Corsham Science Park, Park Lane, Corsham, Wiltshire, SN13 9FU • Tel: +44 (0)1225 811131 Email: info@bathasu.com • Web: www.bathasu.com

Bath ASU’s Richard Wastnage, Maria Connolly and Chris Watt

“The whole process is considerably streamlined, far less stressful for the patient and saves significant amounts of time and money for the hospital.”

Down at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro, Head of Pharmacy Technical Services James Henderson faces a different challenge.

“We cover a large geographical area, from the Scilly Isles to Tintagel, and working with the Hope for Tomorrow Charity have established a mobile treatment centre so that chemotherapy can be

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SBG Sports Software UK SBG Sports Software UK Limited is honoured to be recognised with the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation for its RaceWatch software system. Widely used in Formula 1 and other elite motorsport series around the world, RaceWatch is an integrated video, data analysis, visualisation and race strategy system for teams and race organisers.

Formula 1 teams are continuously chasing marginal gains, and effective race strategy is a major component in achieving success.

Accurate and clearly presented data analysis is vital when critical decisions are being made in seconds. RaceWatch provides exactly this, integrating multiple data feeds and extracting the key information needed at each stage of the race. It provides hundreds of visualisation options, which can be personalised by each user, with video forming a central component of the system.

RaceWatch development began in 2008 when SBG founder Gareth Griffith attended the Monaco Grand Prix with Honda Racing F1. He saw first-

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hand how overloaded the strategists were with different numeric displays, sometimes overlooking the actual race and missing crucial events.

Drawing on his experience developing television graphics systems (which have earned two previous Queen’s Awards), Griffith set to work to develop a comprehensive visual strategy system tightly integrated with video.

In 2009, in the team’s first full year of operation with RaceWatch, they won the Formula 1 World Championship as Brawn Grand Prix.

In 2010, Brawn GP became Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport, and SBG has continued to work closely with the team ever since, through five more F1 World Championship wins. In recent years Renault, Alfa Romeo, Haas and Williams F1 teams have also become valued customers, as well as many teams in Formula E and the World Endurance Championship, including Porsche Motorsport, Audi Sport and Toyota Motorsport, all World Champions, and winners of the world famous Le Mans 24-hour race over the last eight years.

Alongside real-time decision making, RaceWatch is equally reknowned for its postevent analysis tools. All data, and every display, can be viewed exactly as it was at any given point in a session. This makes RaceWatch a best in class performance analysis application as it enables every decision to be analysed based on the exact information available at the time. Detailed review of communications and subsequent refinement of team procedures have played a significant role in making Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport such a successful trackside operation.

It is this ability to review data, video and radio communications in such detail which led to RaceWatch being adopted as the primary race management and incident review system for FIA (Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile) World Championships. RaceWatch systems have been used to manage races safely and officiate with consistency in Formula 1 since 2011, and are now also used in all Formula E and World Endurance Championship races.

The use of data for performance analysis is growing rapidly in other sports with elite organisations increasingly looking to Formula 1 for guidance. Over the past two years SBG has established strong positions in several other sports including the Premier League and a host of international football and rugby leagues and federations, and has begun to develop similar applications outside sport.

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A leading manufacturer and supplier of automotive hand and power tools, diagnostic platforms, software and equipment, Snap-on is honoured to celebrate being a recipient of the highly coveted Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation and International Trade.

The award for Innovation was presented in recognition of Snap-on’s all-in-one repair information resource, SureTrack™.

The rapid growth in the technology used in the production of cars has highlighted the need for a different approach to vehicle diagnosis and repair. Technicians are likely to encounter multiple interdependent fault codes, hundreds of live data points, graphs, never-ending flow charts, and eye-crossing diagrams when cars are coming into their garages.

Snap-on’s aim has been to work with technicians and listen to their challenges and feedback.

That feedback helps Snap-on build software and products that help technicians repair their customers’ vehicles faster first time and offer a great service.

With this aim, Snap-on developed SureTrack™ to try and ensure that a workshop and technician’s life is made easier, and that they can work productively and carry out first-time fixes on the vehicles that are coming into their garages.

This makes the workshop more efficient and also more profitable.

SureTrack™ brings together a unique combination of intelligence and expertise to help aftermarket automotive garages increase accuracy and efficiency from diagnosis to completed repair.

How does SureTrack™ work? When a vehicle comes into a garage with a check engine light on, technicians are able to pull the code with a Snap-on diagnostic platform and then access SureTrack™ real fixes and information.

The industry’s most comprehensive source of expert knowledge for professional technicians, SureTrack™ combines real-world insights with repair time-savers and detailed parts replacement records. It also offers the opportunity for technicians to understand what has worked for other technicians in that same scenario. They can

Snap-on’s diagnostic headquarters, based in King’s Lynn, Norfolk

access expert knowledge based on millions of previous repair records covering just about every year/make/model combination you’re likely to see.

Every system – from ABS to transmissions, and more – is covered, with workshop-proven tips and test procedures.

Snap-on invests heavily in research and

development so that it can offer its customers a continuously improving and advancing technology, including new platforms and innovative software to solve complex diagnostic challenges.

As a result of that, it recently introduced its next innovation – Intelligent Diagnostics.

Intelligent Diagnostics enables technicians to drastically simplify and reduce the time spent in diagnosis and repair.

General Manager, Mark Ost, says: “It is a true honour and privilege for our achievements here at Snap-on to be recognised with the rare and prestigious accolade of two separate Queen’s Awards for Enterprise. Snap-on continues to grow in all markets at home and aboard, and we will continue to work hard on bringing exciting new products and technologies to the markets we operate in as well as continuously demonstrating our commitment to innovation.”

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Digital forensics investigators were crying out for better software for reviewing images and videos of child sexual abuse (CSA).

Software to support them in an increasingly complex and difficult job. To complement them, not to replace them. To empower them, not to hinder them. Ultimately, to enable them to examine cases reliably and find more victims, faster, without drudgery and with minimal exposure to traumatising material. That is why Semantics 21® was launched.

Semantics 21’s ambition is to keep producing the next generation of law enforcement tools, built upon cutting-edge algorithms, which can extract meanings (semantics) buried within images, videos or other digital media; primarily for CSA investigations, but also for other areas that can leverage the power of its technology.

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Semantics 21 is transforming CSA investigations and helping to rescue victims. It is growing a solid presence within world-renowned police forces in the UK and beyond, notably in Canada. Its LASERi® Suite is boosting these forces’ capability and capacity to create a safe and secure world, particularly for children.

A forensics supervisor told Semantics 21 that: “Without your products, our lab would effectively be at a standstill.”

The Suite enhances productivity, yielding lower investigation costs and rapid prosecution of cases.

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SciChart Ltd Founded in 2010, SciChart designs, develops and sells a software component to businesses and enterprises to draw fast, visually-appealing graphs, graphics and visualisations for the scientific, medical, financial and engineering industries.

Drawing upon his experience as a software consultant from investment banking to scientific research, director and software architect Dr Andrew Burnett-Thompson identified the need for faster graphics and visualisation in business applications in order to quickly display the large amount of data that scientific or financial firms generate.

SciChart’s game-changing innovation was to combine proprietary data resampling algorithms and technology from the gaming industry for speed and performance of graphics with enterprise software applications. This resulted in a software library able to draw charts, graphs and other visualisations many orders of magnitude faster than competitors.

As a result, SciChart’s software opened up new markets for its clients, allowing them to create previously impossible projects, where competitor charting software was simply too slow to be usable.

SciChart’s software is now used by all kinds of industries that require fast, real-time, big-data charts, graphs or visualisation on Windows desktop,

SciChart has secured a position as ‘Best in class’ for charting and graphics software

mobile or embedded systems. Example enduser applications include visualisation of tumour imaging data in cutting-edge cancer research, tracking Formula-1 vehicle parameters during races, analysing real-time financial data for making trading decisions, and providing the charts and graphs for bespoke low-cost ECG devices used in the developing world.

In each of the above examples, SciChart’s fast, real-time charts and graphs enabled customers to bring to market cutting-edge new innovations at a fraction of the cost and time of developing the graphics software themselves. As a result, SciChart has grown organically from a single-person

company to a small business with just under 20 full-time staff, with thousands of customers worldwide – and all without outside investment or debt, overtaking established competitors with larger resources. SciChart has secured a position as ‘Best in class’ for charting and graphics software, and continues to innovate, driving performance improvements and supporting new platforms and features, helping its customers to conquer new sectors and drive market share.

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Spectra Group (UK) Limited First-time award-winner Spectra Group In addition to those outlined here, (UK) Limited is delighted to win the other essential capabilities include its 2019 Queen’s Award for Innovation for simplicity of use and consequent minimal its SlingShot® product. training burden. Unskilled personnel SlingShot is a small, low powered can operate it and, because the system and lightweight system which, when works with differing radio types, users can connected to military or commercial communicate effectively across various radios, extends their range for voice agencies and with coalition partners. and data communication to thousands CEO Simon Davies comments: “Working of miles, by using commercial on the design, and building a business, communication satellites. It has a supplying a product that has the ability to particular application in remote and revolutionise communications in theatres austere environments. of operation, not only for soldiers but The SlingShot system satisfies many emergency services and disaster relief of the requirements that the military, workers is very satisfying. search and rescue, disaster recovery and “As a former soldier in the Royal emergency services have highlighted Corp of Signals, knowing that the as being of critical importance – and equipment we provide enables soldiers therefore contributes to the saving of lives. Spectra staff celebrate winning the 2019 Queen’s Award and first responders around the world the entry PROOF SlingShot OF ENTRY IN THE LOGO for an enhanced entry is unique.

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Stanhope Seta Ltd Stanhope Seta Ltd is both proud and honoured to stakeholders, including oil companies, airlines, regulatory receive a Queen’s Award in the category of Innovation. authorities and aircraft manufacturers.

Established for nearly 75 years, the family-owned Stanhope-Seta is a British business that specialises business continues to offer a unique and innovative in the design and manufacture of laboratory test range of advanced instruments, providing solutions instruments for quality control applications. From its for quality control applications across a diverse range manufacturing base in Chertsey, Surrey, its team export of products, from jet fuel to lipstick. innovative instruments worldwide, with installations in The Innovation award, granted for the design and more than 120 countries. manufacture of the Fame in Jet (FIJI) instrument, is the A well-established worldwide partner network third such honour to be bestowed upon Stanhope-Seta, provides first class technical support and service across having previously won the International Trade award in the globe. Regular workshops, both in the UK and abroad, 2012 and the award for Innovation in 2014. are conducted by the company to keep partners and The FIJI instrument detects ultra-low levels of a chemical customers up to date with new developments and enable compound known as fatty acid methyl ester (FAME). hands-on training.

This compound is widely found in road transport diesel, In a joint statement, company directors Giles and however in aviation fuel it is classified as a contaminant Martin Verity said: “The Queen’s Award is the most and its presence must be strictly controlled. FAME prestigious business award made to UK companies, contamination of aviation fuel in sufficient quantities could and winning a third award is a proud and defining result in airport closures and grounded aircraft. moment in the company’s history. It is a real achievement FIJI detects ultra-low levels of FAME, which is To assist the industry in the management of FAME, to receive this award in recognition of our loyal, hard classed as a contaminant in aviation fuel a rapid, reliable method of detecting the presence of working team. We will continue to fly the flag for Britain compound was required. FIJI was developed specifically for this purpose. with its development and manufacturing excellence.”

The FIJI instrument is now deployed around the world in both commercial and military settings, and it forms one of the key testing techniques designed STANHOPE-SETA LTD to ensure that aviation fuel is fit and safe for use in today’s aircraft.

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Synectics Solutions Synectics Solutions is delighted to win the Queen’s Award for Enterprise – Innovation, which is testament to the skills and commitment of its entire workforce.

The company was founded by Carol and Kevin Shanahan, and is now a hugely successful Fintech, predictive analytics and data services company.

This award is for outstanding successes in innovation, including the application of technology to save government and businesses hundreds of millions annually from potential fraud.

The name Synectics is based on the noun, meaning a problem-solving technique which seeks to promote creative thinking, typically among small groups of people of diverse expertise. This problem-solving, people first, creative mentality has propelled Synectics Solutions to be recognised as a world-leading pioneer in data driven software solutions that prevent financial crime and mitigate risk.

The company has won a multitude of awards for the innovative solutions it delivers in areas such as financial crime and fraud prevention, risk mitigation and a range of other areas of business.

Synectics also builds successful, impactful relationships across the wider community, Based in Staffordshire, Synectics Solutions employs more than 360 people including schools and community groups, to identify where families cannot access activities or food throughout the holidays. It then fills the gap, where possible, by hosting supported by the unique culture that we all embody at Synectics, has led us to events. win the Queen’s Award for Innovation.

Managing Director Carol Shanahan said: “To win an award of this calibre “Our innovative technologies make a unique contribution to our UK, is a fantastic achievement, contributed to by every one of our 360 employees.

European and North American customers.

Of the many awards we have won over the past few years, this is the pinnacle of “These innovations now prevent £150 million annually in potential fraud our work to date. losses for the UK Government through our work with the Cabinet Office and “Kevin and I started this business 27 years ago, with a core purpose to be a the National Fraud Initiative, and even bigger savings have been made through people centred company that always delivers the highest level of innovation our collaborative work in the private sector. Here, our advanced technology and and service. We are extremely honoured and proud that this approach, ability to bring organisations together for a common purpose helps identify organised criminal gangs, prevents low level frauds and makes predictions to block financial crime.”

Key services that Synectics Solutions delivers include: National SIRA – a data syndication solution that allows financial services companies to share intelligence to prevent fraud and other financial crime.

National Fraud Initiative (NFI) – data matching and collaboration to help prevent and address fraud and error in over 1,200 public sector organisations on behalf of the UK Government’s Cabinet Office.

Precision – a multi-award-winning, innovative, predictive analytics solution that provides organisations with the data science and predictive analytical expertise to deliver cost-effective predictive insights into a range of business areas to help them improve their ability to address various areas of risk in their business.

Orion – a sophisticated financial crime risk analysis tool, which identifies potential organised crime threats.

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Britain’s oldest robot company is best known for its Dexterous Hand, the world’s most advanced robot hand, reproducing, as closely as possible, the kinematics and dexterity of a human hand. Strong enough to hold the cable tethering an astronaut to his spacecraft, but sensitive enough to handle an egg, Shadow’s technology is designed to take human operators out of harmful situations – such as nuclear decommissioning or bomb disposal.

The company is also a pioneer in the fast-developing fields of The Shadow ‘teleoperation’ and ‘telepresence’.

Dexterous Hand In tests, an operator wearing a holding a light bulb ‘cyber glove’ in California was able to accurately guide a Dexterous Hand located at Shadow’s London HQ. They were able to ‘feel’ the sensation of the robot hand touching an object 5,000 miles away, thanks to the fingertip sensors on the Shadow device relaying information to the controller’s haptic feedback gloves.

A world leading manufacturer of meat netting, TruNet (UK) Limited is delighted to have won the 2019 Queen’s Award for Innovation, for its patented product Total Control Net (TCN).

TCN has been an industry game changer; it is the world’s first net that allows customers to achieve a more consistent product at higher speeds.

TruNet is an international success story, exporting into over 50 countries from manufacturing sites in the UK, Vietnam and Poland. Globally, the company produces over 100 million metres of netting a year and is the only netting manufacturer in the world with An extract of drawings from the patent BRC accreditation at multiple sites. for Total Control Net The Queen’s Award for Innovation is just the start for TruNet. There are exciting times ahead, with two new products in development, which will potentially rival TCN in terms of innovation and will undoubtedly cement the company’s position as the world leader within the meat industry.

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: Manufacturers of advanced materials and components for many applications in a diverse range of global markets, including marine, railways and construction.

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TENMAT Limited TENMAT manufacturers advanced materials and components for many applications in a diverse range of global markets, including marine, offshore, railways, construction, automotive, aerospace and renewable energy.

Pivotal to winning the Queen’s Award for Innovation was the development of TENMAT’s range of Ventilated Fire Barriers. External wall systems often incorporate a ventilation cavity to allow the building to breathe and prevent issues such as moisture entering the fabric of the building.

The ventilation cavity can act like an open chimney in a fire scenario allowing the fire to spread rapidly vertically up the building. TENMAT Ventilated Fire Barriers are manufactured from a highly reactive intumescent material. This advanced material allows the ventilation cavity to be present in normal conditions, but will rapidly expand when subjected to fire, to close off the cavity and prevent further vertical fire spread.

TENMAT Ventilated Fire Barriers are fitted at each floor level of a building within the ventilation cavity, creating a fire stopping barrier around the full extent of the external walls, which is particularly important in high rise buildings.

TENMAT works closely with national regulators worldwide to ensure its products meet the ever increasing safety requirements of the construction industry.

TENMAT products have been proven, via extensive testing, to offer maximum protection in a wide range of different construction scenarios.

Building regulations already have standard performance specifications for Ventilated Fire

The company’s Manchester headquarters in the UK

TENMAT’s Ventilated Fire Barriers are fitted at each floor level of a building, creating a fire stopping barrier around the external walls

Tenmat’s Ventilated Fire Barriers installed at floor level

Barriers, and TENMAT products have been proven to consistently exceed these standards.

As an additional safety feature, TENMAT has developed ‘low smoke, zero halogen’ intumescent materials, which are used as standard in all of its Ventilated Fire Barrier products – as in the case of building fires, smoke often kills more people than fire. In the event of a fire this feature helps to create a safer environment for both the building’s occupants and fire fighters who enter it.

TENMAT designs, develops and manufactures this product range at its Manchester headquarters, and invests heavily in research and development in order to improve the fire safety of buildings for their occupants and limit fire damage.

As more than 70% of TENMAT products are supplied into export markets, TENMAT constantly

innovates to ensure that products meet national regulation standards and outperform international competitors.

Gordon MacLeman, Managing Director of TENMAT, says: “As an advanced materials company we look to provide solutions to the most pressing problems facing our customers and the sectors in which they operate. We are particularly pleased to receive this award for an innovative solution, which can be applied to improve building safety, not just in the UK but around the world.”

TENMAT LIMITED Ashburton Road West, Trafford Park, Manchester, M17 1TD • Tel: +44 (0)161 872 2181 Fax: +44(0) 161 872 7596 • Email: info@tenmat.com Web: www.tenmat.com

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Tratos Ltd Tratos Ltd is the cable industry’s innovator and, because cable is fundamental to almost every innovation, it has become an enabler of emerging technology across the industries that move the world forward.

Tratos is part of an international team working on the ITER project – an exploration of controlled thermonuclear fusion as an inexhaustible supply of clean, green energy.

Tratos supplied key components of the superconductivity experiment, in particular cable-in-conduit (CIC) superconducting wire, for the construction of magnets for the ITER reactor.

R&D develops cable from concept to production to open up new possibilities for performance.

Tratos conceived and produced the world’s smallest microcable for faster and more easily-accessed broadband connectivity, for example.

Its latest sheathing compounds deliver reliability, performance and health and safety advances in the harshest environments, and its new breed hybrid conductors are protecting the integrity of more hard-won energy as it travels across overhead power cables.

Tratos won a Queen’s Award for Innovation for its JBA cable. The JBA (Jasmine* Bragagni Albano) was named after the President of Tratos, Ing. Com. Albano Bragagni, OMRI, inventor of the LSZH (Low Smoke Zero Halogen) extra compound. Tratos’ Oil & Gas JBA® is a special cable range designed and manufactured for the oil and gas market to meet necessary test requirements.

The JBA family of cables is mud and fire resistant to extreme temperatures, and capable of withstanding water and impact.

Tratos is a family-owned business professionally managed by a board drawn from senior experts with a wealth of industry experience. The Tratos board members, pictured left to right; Dr Ennio Bragagni Capaccini, Ing Albano Bragagni, Dr Elisabetta Bragagni Capaccini, Mr Germano Bragagni, Mr Neil Ancell, Mr John Light and Dr Maurizio Bragagni.

Additional members of The Tratos board include; Enrico Scambia, Kevin and James Card.

Tratos has UK and Italy manufacturing and test facilities, and offices worldwide. It works with customers, creating bespoke solutions and high quality cabling to meet their needs.

The international ports industry is celebrating the

The innovative Tratos team, pictured here with Prime Minister Theresa May, are invested in the UK.

Left and below: Tratos is the cable industry’s innovator, and its range is helping to move the world forward.

11th year of continuous running of Tratos’ highspeed reeling cable.

Tratos works across infrastructure industries worldwide, from rail and smart highways to power, oil and gas, marine, construction, defence and communications. It is invested in the UK; not only on the millions spent on state-of-the-art production facilities, new manufacturing equipment and creating 40 new jobs, but as a stakeholder in the UK economy.

Tratos supports investment in faster, smarter routes to super-fast broadband speeds for Britain.

Its White Paper examines the issues and potential solutions to UK connectivity challenges. It also champions change-for-good for the development of more efficient green energy transmission cable for safer homes and public buildings.

The company’s Academy works to develop its people and encourage innovation. Says CEO and Chair Dr Maurizio Bragagni: “A true culture of innovation requires the time and space to experiment, and the understanding that it’s ok to make mistakes. Finding out how not to do something is another step closer to achieving the right way to doing something. Removing the fear of blame is the first step towards discovering something new, useful and ground-breaking. In our world ‘impossible’ simply means not possible… yet.” *Developed for the Jasmine North Sea offshore platform.

TRATOS LTD Randles Road, Knowsley Business Park, Knowsley, L34 9HX • Tel: +44 151 548 3888 zilah.skerritt@tratosgroup.com www.tratosgroup.com

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: Using innovation to create a high quality sustainable alternative to landfill and naturally sourced aggregates and sand.

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Thompson Recycling and Landfill Limited

Thompson Recycling and Landfill LTD is a market leading waste, recycling and aggregate supplier based in Scotland, which was set up in 2014 as a subsidiary of the Thompson Quarries group.

Thompson Recycling was started in a bid to address the rising cost of aggregates within construction, the reducing resources of landfill, and the increase of regulation within the landfill and aggregates sector.

Through significant investment and four years of research and development, Thompson Recycling achieved a 100% recycling rate of inert soil and construction waste, resulting in hitting the target of zero waste to landfill in 2018.

Along with this achievement, the company supplies a full range of recycled construction aggregates to highway specification, and sands to British Standard specification, for use in structural concrete and self-compacting concrete flooring.

Along with importing waste from construction sites, Thompson Recycling also excavates previously landfilled material from its site in Dumbarton, just outside Glasgow, for use in the recovery process.

Over years of development and testing, strict quality control procedures have been identified and implemented to ensure the recycled products achieve the required standards for their specific end use.

Thompson Recycling offers a full circular and sustainable solution for its customers when handling their inert construction waste, and also significantly reduces the environmental impact of the landfill, quarrying and construction sector within its locality.

Customers also benefit from cost reductions, as the recycling of the material and the end products are exempt from both landfill tax and aggregate levy.

Andrew Thompson, Managing Director, says: “To win a Queen’s Award in the Innovation category is a testament to the people within our company who have all worked incredibly hard to achieve

our goals.

“Sustainability is so important for us and our customers. Currently we offer an unparalleled service. We hope our work sets a precedent for others in the industry and alters the perception of the ability to find valid, sustainable and cost effective recycling solutions across all sectors.

“We are constantly working to further enhance our facility and, in turn, better our environmental sustainability as we look to the future.”

THOMPSON RECYCLING AND LANDFILL LIMITED Birch Road, Dumbarton, G82 2RN • Tel: +44 (0)1389 762271 Fax: +44 (0)1389 742217 • andrew@thompsonquarries.co.uk www.thompsonquarries.co.uk/landfill

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: Warwick Music Group has notched up sales of more than a quarter of a million pBones – making it the world’s best-selling trombone.

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Warwick Music Group When musicians Hugh Rashleigh, Chris Fower and Steven Greenall got together in 2007 intent on developing a trombone in recyclable ABS plastic – a world first – they didn’t realise how their creation would radically change a sector of the music market that had experienced little innovation for two centuries.

Their goal of making the joy of music accessible, fun and appealing to both children and adults has been at the heart of an innovation that music industry experts believe has resulted in a 15% increase in worldwide sales of trombones in the past three years.

Since its launch in late 2010, Warwick Music Group has notched up sales of more than a quarter of a million pBones – making it the world’s best-selling trombone – and achieved plaudits in schools, classrooms, bands and orchestras.

Says Steven Greenall, Chief Executive of Warwick Music Group: “Being awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for Innovation is the ultimate vindication that our efforts, setbacks and achievements have been worthwhile. As a small company this is a great accolade for us and all those committed to enabling more people to play and enjoy music.”

In 2002, the National Foundation for Youth Music reported a “frightening” fall in the numbers of young people learning to play the trombone. Many were put off by the £250-£1,000 price tag. Schools were unable to afford to buy and maintain them. pBone has changed all that. UK retailers report that 80% of trombones sold today are manufactured in plastic – all from Warwick Music Group.

The journey, however, was not easy. Successfully designing and consistently manufacturing a traditional brass instrument in plastic to tight tolerances posed significant challenges.

challenging. Those with experience in automotive manufacturing provided the closest match in terms of quality output and expertise.

Neither has Warwick Music Group been immune from competition. Despite holding patents, it has faced a copycat manufacturer that used its designs, but the company successfully fought major patent infringements.

Steven continues: “Our efforts have been really worthwhile. Children find traditional brass instruments to be heavy; they’re costly and easily damaged.

“The innovation of pBone has introduced a new generation to the joy of music, as well as the educational and social benefits that music brings. “pBone has been just the start. Without it, we could not have developed other instruments such as pTrumpet, pCornet and pBuzz – a brand new instrument designed specifically for children as young as three to enable them to start their brass playing journey. pBone (centre and right) has heralded other brass instruments in plastic from Warwick Music Group

Externally, pBone retains the essential design attributes of a traditional instrument, but internally, it differs so as to reproduce the sound of a trombone – even though it is produced in a different material.

None of the materials utilised in pBone had previously been used in a trombone. The carbon fibre slide was, for instance, inspired by a fishing rod.

Great emphasis was placed on its ergonomics, so pBone is easy and comfortable to hold – especially important for children.

Finding the right manufacturer was

Steven Greenall (left) and Chris

Created by a team of British musicians, pBone, the world’s first plastic trombone – which has become the world’s best-selling – has been awarded The Queen’s Award for Enterprise for its innovation.

Fower, whose creation of pBone, the world’s first plastic trombone, has

Pictured is the Warwick Music Group team based near their head office near Tamworth in the West Midlands.

been awarded a Queen’s Award for Enterprise for their innovation

“We believe in the transformational power of music and that everyone should have the opportunity to make music. By thinking differently, we have made a real difference in the world.

“We are delighted that the passion, creativity and hard work of our small team has been recognised with The Queen’s Award for Enterprise.”

Ten people are based at Warwick Music Group’s head office near Tamworth in the West Midlands, with additional team members in the USA and Asia.

WARWICK MUSIC GROUP The Hayloft, Rock Farm Business Centre, Tamworth, B79 0LA • Tel: +44 (0)24 7671 2081 Email: steven@warwickmusic.com Web: www.warwickmusicgroup.com and www.pbone.co.uk n @pBoneOfficial Z @pBoneOfficial z pBoneOfficial " pBoneUK

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The Lakes Free Range Egg Company Ltd What made the Lakes Free Range Egg Company apply for a Queen’s Award?

We have numerous awards for sustainability but saw the Queens Awards for Sustainable Development as the very pinnacle of recognition.

This award has massive credibility and is the only one recognised by all sectors from single members of the public to giant multinationals.

What research did you do about the awards/ application process?

AWARD CATEGORY: Sustainable Development SIZE OF COMPANY: 50+ staff WHERE BASED: Stainton, Nr Penrith, Cumbria TYPE OF BUSINESS: Egg producer and packer PROFILE: David and Helen Brass JOB TITLES: Chief Executive Officer and Company Secretary respectively

Looking at previous winners and analysing the application form were key. The support notes were very useful, and the awards team were great at answering questions.

What planning did you do beforehand?

We had lots of information but sorting the key messages we needed to get across in each section was vital. We also had a planning meeting which highlight the to do list and the team members to be involved.

How did you find the application process?

Company Background

Set up 22 years ago by David and Helen Brass, The Lakes Free Range Egg Co is the UK’s largest, specialist free range and organic egg producer/packer. In addition, ‘The Lakes’ is also a passionate advocate of animal welfare and ethical environmentalism, noted for its innovative ‘range enrichment’ policy of planting trees in order to help improve the welfare of its free range hens.

With some 157,000 native trees and shrubs planted over 600+acres of ranges since 1997, this modest family-owned company in the heart of Cumbria has managed not only to create idyllic living conditions for hens but also optimise habitats for wildlife and biodiversity. Moreover, the company’s packing stations achieved the significant landmark of becoming 100% carbon neutral in 2016.

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It was a little alarming when we first looked, because what we do didn’t fit neatly into some of the questions, but once we planned what we wanted to say, it was easier. It takes time and effort. Sticking to the word limits makes you very focused so it was an excellent business exercise too.

Did you learn anything about your own company during the process?

This was... a valuable audit, making you ask questions, review results, what is working, what is not, refocus and helped crystalise some of more nebulous thoughts.

Did you engage other team members?

We’re not a big company, but our close-knit

team contributed to the content including financials and graphics that helped explain what we do in a simple way. Then we kept the application process to a couple of core team members for consistency.

Describe any challenges you overcame in the process Our sustainability plan is so connected to our supply chain that explaining what we do was quite complicated. Describing how it all fits

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together was a challenge, so we created an infographic to explain it.

How will you use your award to promote your business going forward?

opportunity, so there’s something there for the future.

Now you’ve won an award, what advice would you give to others thinking of applying?

The award is synonymous with quality, so we use it in a subliminal way across what we do, including it on our egg box packaging and marketing material as well as email footers.

What do you consider to be the benefits of being a Queen’s Award holder?

Have a look at others who have won an award and talk to them about the process. Be prepared to put in the effort and allow plenty of time.

Rushing at the last minute is not a good idea and the deadline is final.

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Would you consider applying again in the future?

We thought long and hard about which category to enter, because we could see more than one

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Criteria...

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Always forward-facing, the Queen’s Awards have constantly evolved and changed to better reflect UK industry and business development. To this end, a new award category was introduced in 1993, under the heading Environmental Achievement.

This new award reflected the growing awareness of man’s impact on the environment and how manufacturing and processing operations could take steps to reduce their carbon footprint both locally and globally.

In 2001 this award was updated to better reflect how businesses were tackling their environmental impact through the development of positive strategies to encourage new, less damaging, ways of doing business: it was renamed Sustainable Development.

While this remains one of the smaller awards categories, the achievements made by the companies involved are hugely beneficial and demonstrate how business and sustainability can go hand-in-hand. There were eight winners in the Sustainable Development category for 2018.

The general eligibility criteria for The Queen’s Awards can be found on the website https://www.gov.uk/queensawards-for-enterprise/eligibility.

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to ensure eligibility for the Sustainable Development category. You must either: l Show how your outstanding sustainable development practices have helped to improve your commercial performance over two years; or l Show how your continuous sustainable development practices have helped to improve your commercial performance over five years.

Your achievements should be in one of the following categories: l Invention, design or production of goods; l Performance of services; l Marketing and distribution; l After-sale support of goods or services; or l Management of resources or relationships with people and other organisations.

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List of all winners in the Sustainable Development category Her Majesty The Queen has been graciously pleased to confer her Awards in 2019 upon the following business units in recognition of their outstanding achievements in Sustainable Development apetito UK Ltd The leading supplier of food to the health and social care sector.

ClimateCare Oxford Limited ClimateCare funds sustainable development projects that reduce carbon emissions at scale, increase quality of life, and deliver towards the UN Global Goals.

Company Shop Limited The UK’s largest redistributor of surplus food and household products.

Liftshare.com Ltd Liftshare are on a mission to solve the worlds sustainability and mobility issues through sharing.

SPINKO Ltd t/a Harrison Spinks A fifth-generation family bedmaker and pioneer in spring technology.

Willmott Dixon Willmott Dixon is a privately owned national construction and fit-out company that believes it has a purpose beyond profit.

apetito UK Ltd – The leading supplier of food to the health and social care sector.

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apetito Our values are at the heart of everything we do at apetito. As the leading supplier of food to the health and social care sector, we feel it is our duty to cater for some of the most vulnerable people in society, while operating in an ethical and sustainable way. It’s why we’re delighted to have won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development, our second Queen’s Award in three years, third in total.

apetito’s success is about more than just what’s on the plate

It’s about more than what’s on the plate We strive to make a real difference to our customers and community. Therefore, as a business we go beyond what’s on the plate. We’re dedicated to doing business in an ethical and sustainable way, enhancing health and well-being, making great food to be proud of and bringing a passion for service. It is what drives us as a business. We therefore focus our efforts on four main areas:

Our business We’re extremely passionate about sustainability.

It informs not just the way we work, but how we treat people, the impact on the environment and our contribution to the economy. We’ve worked to embed this belief into the whole business from the strategy down to the day-to-day.

As such we demonstrated our commitment to our team, becoming an accredited Real Living Wage employer, joining an elite group of FTSE 100 companies and public sector organisations.

We’re a founding member of the UK Plastics Pact, to transform the plastic packaging system in the UK. Keeping plastic in the economy and out apetito is a leader in the Health and Social Care sector

of the ocean. As well as investing more than £1.2 million in becoming a sustainable business.

Our community As a leader in the Health and Social Care sector, we’re at the heart of many communities across the UK. Therefore, we aim to create social value for our employees and the communities that we work in. As part of this commitment, we launched the apetito Staff Foundation, encouraging employees to nominate projects to enhance the lives of others.

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The company has won a number of Queen’s Awards

The apetito team with some of the participants of the Walk to Remember fund-raising event

Our customers

Making great food to be proud of is at the heart of the business

Yorkshire three-peaks challenge, volunteering at local food banks and organising food donations to 100-plus homeless people, hosting monthly Sunday lunch clubs across the year for senior members of our community and help pupils studying Business and Finance at a local school.

As well as volunteering their time, employees have raised a considerable amount of money.

In fact, since the Foundation opened in 2005, over £186,000 has been donated to worthy causes such as these. As well as this, we’ve set up a charity partnership with Alzheimer’s Support and Alzheimer’s Society. These charities are close to many of our employees’ hearts, as well as the customers we serve.

In the space of just four years, with the help of our employees, we’ve raised £128,000.

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We’ve always cater for the most vulnerable in society, no matter what their requirements. We therefore developed Specialist Nutrition ranges, to make tasty and nutritious meals for those with dysphagia, or swallowing difficulties, and those who are malnourished.

In 2016, we were fortunate enough to be award our second Queen’s Award for Enterprise for our dysphagia range of meals and in 2017 we launched our Mini Meals Extra range, to continue the fight against malnutrition.

As well as this, we’re one of the Founders and current Board Members of the Malnutrition Task Force, an independent group of experts across health, social care and local government, united to address avoidable and preventable malnutrition in older people.

Our suppliers In 2015 we became the only food company in the UK’s health and social care sector to become a Member of the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) – an internationally recognised code of labour practice committed to promoting and respecting workers’ rights globally.

Therefore, all our suppliers meet the requirements of the ETI Base Code, and we offer support and guidance to help them meet the required standards.

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suppliers to improve their sustainability and have, on average, built and maintained relationships of 15-plus years.

By creating these strong relationships, we can further help and influence our suppliers’ sustainability efforts by taking excess product they’ve produced rather than allowing it to go to waste.

For example, if a supplier has had a bumper harvest, we’d work with them to take more of the produce and then freeze/store it rather than letting it go to waste.

Making a real difference It is our corporate values and commitments that we believe set us apart from other businesses in the UK. We’re passionate about what we do and instil an ethical and sustainable culture throughout our business, from the top down.

Our commitments to our employees, suppliers, customers and community is something we take incredibly seriously, and is this commitment which allows us to make a real difference to those we work with.

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: The UK’s largest redistributor of surplus food and household products.

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Company Shop Group Company Shop Group is the UK’s largest redistributor of surplus food and household products. It is a pioneering, family-owned ‘good business doing good’. Handling more than 70 million items of surplus stock in 2018 alone, the business provides all the major retailers, manufacturers and brands with a sustainable solution to tackle supply chain challenges in their operations. Company Shop Group strives to change mindsets across the sector to unlock the full potential in surplus and avoid unnecessary waste. Company Shop Group returned £16.5m to the industry in 2018, resulting in an overall return of £128m in the last decade.

The award also recognised Community Shop, the group’s social enterprise, which sells high quality, low-cost surplus food to local members who are receiving welfare support and are motivated to make a positive change in their lives.

As well as providing food access to those living on the cusp of food poverty, Community Shop engages and connects with every member who comes through its doors. At its Community Hub, members can benefit from personal development support, with everything from debt advice and employability skills, to cook clubs, mentoring and home budgeting.

Figures from the last published report show Community Shop helped provide nearly 10 million meals to 14,000 people across the UK.

Above: The group handled more than 70 million items of surplus stock in 2018 Left: Stock is redistributed through the group’s national network of superstores

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The group’s business model is built on an unwavering commitment to sustainability. This was most recently recognised by winning a prestigious Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in the Sustainable Development category, a second Queen’s Award for the business. Judges praised Company Shop Group’s significant commercial success, while generating positive benefits for society, the economy and the environment.

With a heritage spanning five decades, Company Shop Group purchases surplus food and household items from the fast moving consumer goods supply chain. The products are perfectly good to use, but for a variety of reasons are classed as surplus, for example a particular promotion on the packaging being no longer valid; labelling

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Social enterprise is high on the group’s agenda

or packaging errors; forecasting issues; seasonal products or a lack of consumer demand.

The surplus stock is redistributed through the group’s national network of superstores, staff shops operating on manufacturing sites, click and collect locations and Community Shops.

The 150,000-plus members across its closedmembership stores can access products from major retailers and household brands, including

“It is also a true testament to the hard work and dedication of all our colleagues across the business who have helped to achieve so much, and to all our partners across the industry who enable us to generate such transformative social, economic and environmental impact every day.

“We look forward to continuing to maximise the impact of our work across the supply chain, keeping sustainability and brand integrity at

It is an honour to receive our second Queen’s Award, which is reflective of our unwavering commitment to sustainability and our guiding principle of being a business that is a force for social good John Marren, Founder and Chairman of Company Shop Group

At the group’s Community Hub, members can benefit from personal development support

Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Aldi, M&S, Lidl, Ocado, Morrisons, Iceland, Nestle, Heinz, Müller and more, at deeply discounted prices. This helps stretch hard-working family budgets, with members typically saving 53% off normal retail prices.

Founder and Chairman of Company Shop Group, John Marren, says: “It is an absolute honour to receive our second Queen’s Award, which is reflective of our unwavering commitment to sustainability and our guiding principle of being a business that is a force for social good.

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the heart of our business, and supporting hard working and low-income families to stretch their budgets further, and helping to build stronger individuals and more confident communities.”

COMPANY SHOP GROUP Wentworth Way, Wentworth Industrial Estate, Tankersley, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 3DH Tel: +44 (0)1226 747121 info@companyshopgroup.co.uk www.companyshopgroup.co.uk

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: ClimateCare funds sustainable development projects that reduce carbon emissions at scale, increase quality of life, and deliver towards the UN Global Goals.

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ClimateCare Left: Cooking on a Gyapa stove, which cooks food more efficiently and requires less fuel

ClimateCare turns climate responsibilities into positive outcomes. It works with public and private sector clients to fund sustainable development projects that reduce carbon emissions at scale, measurably increase quality of life, and deliver towards the UN Global Goals.

ClimateCare has over 150 years’ collective experience as a leader in the global carbon markets and climate change sector, and is currently ranked the number one B Corp in the UK. Its team are experts in designing, structuring the finance for, and managing impactful emission

Right: Rahil, a Gyapa cookstove retailer in Madina market in Accra

reduction projects that not only cut carbon, but also help preserve the natural environment, alleviate poverty and improve quality of life.

ClimateCare won its first Queen’s Award in 2014, when it had cut over 16.5 million tonnes of CO2 and improved quality of life for over six million people. Since then, it has achieved a huge step change in its impact, with more than 33 million tonnes of CO2 cut, and 34 million lives improved to date. ClimateCare has delivered these results through its partnerships with forward-thinking organisations, such as Bulb, Aviva and The Co-operative Group.

But there is so much more to do. That’s why it’s set an ambitious new target to cut 50 million tonnes of CO2 and improve the lives of 50 million people by 2025.

The Climate+Care approach Vaughan Lindsay, CEO: “ClimateCare delivers positive outcomes for people, the environment and the organisations we work with”

ClimateCare’s distinctive Climate+Care approach is the cornerstone of how it works. It provides four key services: climate neutral and offset

programmes; project development; compliance projects and expert advice.

Its work supporting the Gyapa project in Ghana is one example of this approach. This project manufactures and sells Gyapa cookstoves, which cook food more quickly than conventional stoves, require less fuel and reduce exposure to harmful household air pollution – a leading cause of premature death in Africa.

Crucially, the project also works closely with local entrepreneurs by training and supporting skilled artisans to manufacture the stoves. Gyapa stoves provide secure employment for these craftspeople, protect the health of end users, and cut carbon.

The carbon reductions from projects like Gyapa stoves are independently verified before being sold to responsible organisations, who use them to offset their residual emissions and take full responsibility for their climate impact.

One organisation that has taken a huge step in meeting its climate responsibilities is Bulb, the UK’s fastest growing green energy supplier.

Bulb partnered with ClimateCare earlier this year to provide 100% carbon neutral gas to its customers for the first time.

It’s supporting projects like Gyapa in what is one of the world’s largest voluntary offset programmes.

ClimateCare’s vision is a carbon neutral world; a world where taking full responsibility for your climate impact supports community resilience and healthy natural ecosystems. Every new client is a step closer to this goal, as it continues its work across sectors to deliver positive outcomes and business value with the organisations who share the organisation’s vision.

To take responsibility for your climate impact and help deliver positive outcomes around the world call +44(0)1865 591000 or visit the website www.climatecare.org.

We’ve offset the carbon footprint of this Queen’s Award magazine with ClimateCare through the Gyapa Stoves project.

CLIMATECARE 112 Magdalen Road, Oxford, OX4 4AG Tel: +44 (0)1865 591000 • business@climatecare.org www.climatecare.org n ClimateCare F ClimateCare Z @ClimateCare

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: A fifth-generation family bedmaker and pioneer in spring technology.

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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Harrison Spinks Three generations of the Spinks family at Harrison Spinks – Daniel Spinks (Buyer), Simon Spinks (Managing Director) and Peter Spinks (Chairman)

Harrison Spinks is one of Great Britain’s most established and innovative bedmakers.

Established in 1840, it manufactures luxury mattresses under the Harrison, Somnus and Spink & Edgar brands. The fifth-generation family-run business is one of the most vertically integrated bed manufacturers in the world, drawing wire for its unique spring technology and growing natural fillings on its farm in Yorkshire.

Harrison Spinks has received a Queen’s Award for Enterprise for Sustainable Development, bringing the total won by the company to five.

Simon Spinks, Managing Director, says: “We’re delighted to be granted this Queen’s Award for Enterprise and are honoured that the efforts we’ve made to make our business more sustainable have been recognised.

“We take our responsibility to act sustainably very seriously and we’ve been proud to challenge the market to make beds and mattresses in a different way, avoiding the need to use chemical products like foams that are difficult to recycle.

“We’ve worked hard to diversify our business to become one of the most vertically integrated furniture makers in the UK, and this has helped us look at the way we run our business and reduce reliance on non-recyclable materials, waste, energy consumption and CO2.”

Harrison Spinks was granted the Award because of several innovations which make the company and its products more sustainable:

Natural fillings

Harrison Spinks created alternatives to chemical and non-recyclable products for use in its mattresses.

This includes development of pocket spring sheets

Simon with hemp grown at the Harrison Spinks farm

Wire rod is manufactured in partnership with British Steel

and natural filling pads, which negate the need for foam. Harrison Spinks invented micro-pocket coils that avoid settlement issues associated with natural fillings, making a viable alternative and reducing the need for synthetic foam products.

Natural filling pads were developed to replace foam (and even wool and cotton) with hemp and flax. The new filling pads reduce CO2 produced per mattress by 83 per cent and mattress filling material weight by 36 per cent – which in turn reduces transport costs.

Growing hemp for commercial use has other benefits. For every acre of hemp grown, one tonne of CO2 is absorbed. Together with local growers, Harrison Spinks produces 300 acres of hemp, so 300 tonnes of CO2 are absorbed in the process.

Harrison Spinks sells the waste products from hemp processing as animal bedding and briquettes, which are burnt as bio-fuel.

The bio-fuel is used to heat the Harrison Spinks farm, and the remaining briquettes are sold, including some to a local power station, which uses them as a coal substitute.

Weaving

Harrison Spinks invested in weaving equipment at its Leeds HQ in order to develop inherently flameretardant viscose fabric, removing the use of 500kg of chemicals per year.

Wire drawing

Harrison Spinks partnered with British Steel to develop a new grade of steel rod, which allows a finer gauge wire than traditional methods. This produces lighter spring pads and results in a weight saving of 54 per cent of steel per mattress compared to standard components. Harrison Spinks has opened a wire-drawing line at British Steel, meaning waste can be immediately recycled on-site, creating closed loop production. The next challenge is creating a completely recyclable mattress that will reduce the amount of product going to landfill at the end of its life.

HARRISON SPINKS The Innovation Centre, Westland Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS11 5SB • Tel: +44 (0)113 205 5200 www.harrisonspinks.co.uk

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Company description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceding the section, for checking: Willmott Dixon is a privately owned national construction and fit-out company that believes it has a purpose beyond profit.

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Willmott Dixon To be recognised by the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise for a third time is a huge milestone in our 167-year history. Our goal of being a responsible business with the highest standards of care for the environment, while also strengthening society’s wellbeing, is not new.

In our 1978 Report and Accounts, written by my father Peter, you can see the sentiment and clarity of how we think and operate today:

Our place in society

“A group of companies, such as ours, which places very high importance on its human assets, must also recognise the responsibility that we have, through our people, to society as a whole.

It is easy for the company to concentrate solely on its proclaimed activity, with little or no reference to the environment and society of which it forms a part. At Willmotts we have, for a very long time, recognised our responsibility to help wherever the advice or services of our people can be of use.”

We want to be a catalyst for positive change. That’s why we always challenge ourselves with new ways of thinking to become cleaner, greener and more productive. It’s seen Willmott Dixon achieve a series of sustainable milestones that include: ● Reducing our carbon emissions relative to turnover by 59% since 2010 ● Cutting construction waste intensity by 57% since 2012 ● We now use 100% natural renewable electricity to power our sites and offices ● We’re carbon neutral – for the sixth year running ● Increasing by 50% (to nearly £35k) the amount paid in green bonuses to employees choosing low emissions cars ● Setting the benchmark with SMEs by being the only company in our sector to achieve Level 2 of The Carbon Trust’s Supply Chain Standard ● Being the only contractor to hold The Carbon Trust Standard Being one of the first construction firms to use natural energy in all offices and sites is something we hope will be the new ‘norm’ rather than exception.

Likewise, tackling carbon is saving us £3m a year in fuel and energy costs.

We are driving down emissions – but must go much further, using our

Creating a sustainable future for young people in Croydon with the Willmott Dixon Building Lives Academy

influence to help our supply chain partners do the same.

This is also smart business. Consumers are saying clearly that they want more than products from a business: they want authenticity and purpose, and the explosion of social media means that they can see, with a swipe of a finger, whether a company is living up to its values or not.

Receiving this accolade for a third time is a real honour that helps define our company’s approach to being a responsible business. Our purpose beyond profit ethos is about leaving a positive, sustainable legacy for future generations, and this is wonderful recognition of our people’s hard work and commitment to make a difference. Whether for sustainability or social value, we are incredibly proud to be setting the standard for our industry.

– Rick Willmott, Group Chief Executive, Willmott Dixon WILLMOTT DIXON Spirella 2, Icknield Way, Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, SG6 4GY Tel: +44 (0)1462 671852 • Fax: +44 (0)1462 681852 www.willmottdixon.co.uk Z @WillmottDixon

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Chief Executive Rick Wilmott explains his company’s passion for promoting opportunity: “We have a purpose beyond profit which is to use the energy, passion and commitment of our people to strengthen the wellbeing of society beyond the buildings we create.”

This is the second time Willmott Dixon has received a Queen’s Award for Enterprise, having won in the Sustainable Development category back in 2014.

What made Wilmott Dixon apply for a Queen’s Award?

We see it as the most prestigious accolade for UK businesses. To achieve one is the ultimate recognition for what we are achieving, in particular our work with sustainable development and giving back to the community.

AWARD CATEGORY: Promoting Opportunity SIZE OF COMPANY: 2,500 employees WHERE BASED: HQ in Letchworth Garden City, Herts; operations across the UK TYPE OF BUSINESS: Construction and fit-out company PROFILE: Andrew Geldard JOB TITLES: Head of Communications

Company Background

Founded in 1852, Willmott Dixon is one of the UK’s oldest and largest independent construction and property services companies. Along with ongoing support for various short- and long-term community projects, the Herts-based company offers careers advice, skills development and mentoring opportunities to prepare young people for work via its highly regarded ‘school to apprenticeship’ schemes.

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What research did you do about the awards/ application process?

We knew it was online based and found the research very straightforward as the website clearly explains the process. After registering we were able to review the questions and level of detail required, which is quite considerable.

That’s what sets out these awards. The standard required and detailed information you must provide really sets apart what you have achieved.

What planning did you do beforehand?

We run through each question and make sure the person in our business with the right information for that question has enough time

to prepare a response. I will oversee everything for consistency and quality, but the huge level of detail that goes into an entry comes from key stakeholders in the company using a variety of systems at their disposal.

How did you find the application process?

to capture and share our entries with our people so they can also see what makes us a Queen’s Award winner. I also saw how effectively we can pull together people from various parts of the company to work as a close-knit team to provide the compelling words that make us a Queen’s Awards winner.

I find it very fair, the online portal works well and you are able to add the text to each question and save as you go along. The deadline is clear so no excuses for being late!

Did you engage other team members?

Yes, you have to; it requires a huge amount of information that can only be delivered through teamwork.

Did you learn anything about your own company during the process?

Describe any challenges you overcame in the process?

Lots! The level of detail means you can see a huge array of important facts in one place. I like

Just making sure you have the right quality of information and really answer the questions and provide evidence. If you do not, you will not win as judging is very strict.

Now you’ve won an award, what advice would you give to others thinking of applying?

Look at the criteria for the category you want to enter and if you have a strong enough story then go for itI How will you use your award to promote your business going forward?

Lots of ways, stationery, website, email alerts, social media, plaques in receptions, flags, on fleets – so many ways to remind people of our achievement. We also display the scroll in reception so it’s the first thing people see when they arrive; it sets a very positive tone for the company they are meeting.

Would you consider applying again in future?

Yes, we want to always have a Queen’s Award in recognition of our work so will keep entering so that we can keep displaying the iconic logo. There are only a handful of companies with it in our sector, so it remains very special for us.

What do you consider to be the benefits of being a Queen’s Award holder?

Too many to list - but they include huge pride among our people, a conversation starter for our customers, recognition that our work in areas like sustainability and social value really is industry leading, and overall a quality mark for Willmott Dixon that underlines our commitment to being a company that aims to create a legacy and improve the wellbeing of society through the activities and actions of our people. n

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Her Majesty The Queen has been graciously pleased to confer her Awards in 2019 upon the following business units in recognition of their outstanding achievements in Promoting Opportunity (Through Social Mobility)

(THROUGH SOCIAL MOBILITY) The Queen’s Awards have themselves demonstrated an innovative approach over the years and introduced new categories and updates to ensure their relevance within current business markets.

And so a new award was welcomed in 2017, entitled Promoting Opportunity (Through Social Mobility), to acknowledge companies that are making great strides in putting into place employment schemes, training opportunities and youth development programmes.

Despite this award being only in its second year, it has attracted entries from some heavyweight companies, including Grant Thornton LLP and Willmott Dixon, both of which attained the award in 2018.

Promoting Opportunity (Through Social Mobility) offers companies an opportunity to be rewarded for and share their motivational stories from across the UK. As well as being the newest category in The Queen’s Awards portfolio, it is also the smallest, with six winners for 2018.

The general eligibility criteria for The Queen’s Awards can be found on the website https://www.gov.uk/queens-awards-for-enterprise/eligibility.

To apply for the Promoting Opportunity award, your company must also meet the following additional criteria: l Had a social mobility programme running for more than two years; and l Provide evidence of the programme’s benefits (for example, to your organisation and employees).

Change Please CIC Change Please trains and employs people experiencing homelessness as Baristas.

Recycling Lives Ltd Recycling Lives is a national recycling and waste management business, training and employing ex-offenders to support the UK’s leading offender rehabilitation programme.

Tier 1 Asset Management Limited Tier 1 are experts in IT recycling, leading the way in making a difference to people’s lives.

Timpson Group plc The Timpson Foundation programme recruits and trains ex-offenders, providing a job and a new start.

Trinity Fencing CIC Trinity Fencing CIC rehabilitates those in need through an apprenticeship and mentoring program.

Your improvements should be in one of the following areas: l Work experience, careers advice or mentoring for young people; l Offering non-graduate routes such as traineeships or changing recruitment practices; or l Giving equal support and progression opportunities to all employees.

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Trinity Fencing CIC Trinity Fencing CIC works to rehabilitate young ex-offenders, those with mental health challenges and educational issues, and the homeless via employment, mentoring and housing. Through an apprenticeship and mentoring program we equip them with life skills and a trade, and break re-offending cycles.

There is definitely a need for our project. In Kent there isn’t any other project that is similar to ours. There are many outside of Kent that help the homeless, or alcoholics, or ex-offenders. But none, in Kent, that actively take in, employ, train to lead to a qualification, mentor and allow to eventually mentor other ex-offenders like we do.

There’s a huge problem when young male ex-offenders leave prison. They’re often abandoned by their families, wives or partners, and left homeless and jobless. No-one wants to employ anyone with a criminal record. They cannot get any fixed accommodation because they have no employment to pay the rent. They cannot get benefit because they have no fixed address, and often no active or accessible bank account. They end up on the streets, or being passed from one shelter to another. They develop ‘habits’ they never had before and become alcoholics and drug abusers, and eventually re-offenders. Trinity Fencing aims to break this cycle.

Through a three-year accredited apprenticeship scheme, we will actively employ predominantly young, male, ex-prison offenders. They will be trained in the skills of fencing and hoarding, landscape gardening and tree surgery, working daily with the founder and director of the CIC, Simon Gadd, on the various commercial jobs booked in for the company around Kent – all within domestic and commercial projects.

They are mentored and given skills to start their lives over again, and learn to deal with the issues and challenges of routine and hard work, along with having to learn to problem solve and deal with the weather.

Quite regularly, symptoms of the damage caused in earlier life are brought to the surface, and as the wheels fall off, so to speak, we then talk through what’s happening and the emotions they are feeling. This is essential in equipping the lads with the necessary skills to deal with those emotions and react in a calm, calculated way.

They are trained and mentored to the point where, eventually, they will be able to train and mentor others. If they need specific counselling for mental health, alcoholism or any substance abuse, we will link them with relevant professional bodies to do so. At the end of their apprenticeship, they will receive a Level 2 NVQ certificate and 22 separate transferable qualifications. We also get the lads through their driving test.

Every working day they are expected to meet on time, with a good working ethos and attitude.

Young ex-offenders are offered training and support to help them build a career and the skills needed to succeed in life, both from a work perspective, but also socially

They are expected to assist in the completion of residential and commercial bookings to the highest standard. What we do know is that our apprentices feel a sense of purpose now they are actually training and working, and learning a valuable trade. They feel welcomed and have a sense of identity and belonging, something many young ex-offenders lack – and so they slip into gangs and gang culture, which appropriates a false sense of ‘belonging’.

We also develop their social skills and, as a result, they make many more new positive friends.

They have a bright future mapped out for them, with the help of a positive mentor. Ultimately, we allow them to become the best possible version of themselves.

How it all began

Simon Gadd first became involved with young offenders at Rochester HMPYOI after a request by his local church pastor who wanted to bring some fresh positive energy into the lads’ lives.

Simon agreed, initially thinking ‘this won’t be for me’, but after a few visits he was hooked on spending time with the lads. All said the same three things: that they wanted, on release, to live in a good quality home; they wanted to work a job that gives them a sense of higher purpose, and they wanted someone to show them the ropes in life, as the male figures in their past were absent or abusive in multiple ways. They were all asking for a mentor.

Simon walked away thinking ‘what can I do to make a change?’ He felt the answer was taking the trade he’s been involved in for 30 years and using it as a vehicle to help solve serious social issues.

The journey so far has had more than a few ups and downs – but seeing a lad break out of an old mindset and find freedom and possibilities ahead of him is the reward we set out to achieve.

TRINITY FENCING CIC Tel: 01795 385070 • info@trinityfencing.co.uk www.trinityfencing.co.uk

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Recycling Lives Sergio wasn’t your average job seeker. Despite being a mechanic with years of experience and a range of skills, he was struggling to find work.

Because Sergio was also a serving prisoner. Visiting businesses around Preston he was getting door after door closed in his face when he revealed he was on ‘day release’ from nearby HMP Kirkham. Almost defeated, he knocked on one more door – “It was my last chance,” he says. Sergio’s last chance was the first of many offered to offenders by Recycling Lives.

The national recycling and waste management business has a unique model, using its commercial services to sustain a social enterprise and charity of the same name.

It has this year been handed a Queen’s Award for Promoting Opportunity, following two for Sustainable Development in 2010 and 2014 and one for International Trade in 2018.

The award recognises its work supporting, training and employing ex-offenders, providing skilled, sustainable jobs in its business to reduce reoffending rates.

Seeing the impact that employment had on Sergio – increasing confidence, improving family relationships and giving a new purpose and place on release from prison – it sought to work with more offenders.

The social enterprise now runs the most successful offender rehabilitation programme of its kind in the UK, reducing reoffending rates to less than 5% by supporting men and women both in prison and on release.

Working in 11 UK prisons it engages up to 300 offenders at a time in its HMP Academies.

Participants undertake meaningful work in recycling or fabrication, earning an enhanced wage and having holistic support to address personal problems and secure work and housing ready for release.

Recycling Lives’ Chief Executive William Fletcher at the business’ industry-leading Recycling Park

The recycling business has been critical to the success of the social enterprise, providing training, work placements and employment to participants of the HMP Academies programme, either on ‘day release’ or upon release.

Left: Recycling Lives is a It is this that judges have deemed worthy of nationwide recycling and one of just six Queen’s Awards for Promoting waste management business Opportunity handed out in 2019.

The business, which has grown rapidly in recent years, has shown that embedding social programmes in commercial operations is a formula for success. In 2017/18 it grew sales by 61% to £75m, managing recycling and waste for businesses ranging from blue-chips to tradesmen who share its social values.

Sergio still works for the business to this day.

“I think people can change if they want to change and that’s what Recycling Lives is all about,” he says. “I reckon we have the power to keep more than half the prisoners in the country out of prison.”

It’s a bold ambition Recycling Lives is working hard to achieve.

Above: Sergio was the first of hundreds of ex-offenders to work for Recycling Lives

What started out as one recycling workshop in HMP Kirkham for Recycling Lives to recycle TVs and rehabilitate around half a dozen men at a time, rapidly grew as it enjoyed unrivalled success. It also supports homeless men back into stable housing and sustainable work through its residential charity.

Of the hundreds of men and women released from HMP Academies in recent years, less than 5% have reoffended while more than 70% have moved into work. Compared to national averages, where up to 67% reoffend while just 27% gain work, the results are unrivalled.

Today businesses including BT and British Gas manage their waste streams through the social enterprise’s HMP Academies, allowing them to support offender rehabilitation while achieving high recycle rates.

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Tier 1 Computer recycling company Tier 1, the UK’s leading IT secure asset disposal, refurbishment and recycling business, is proud to be honoured with the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in promoting opportunity through social enterprise. It’s being honoured with the prestigious award as a result of its work – and a unique partnership formed with HMP Forest Bank in Salford and the charity ANTZ. Based in Whitefield, Greater Manchester, Tier 1 is a privately owned business with a £15m turnover and global customer portfolio. Led by co-founder and Managing Director Jonathan Rose, Tier 1 is fiercely committed to upholding strong social values, and giving back to communities through a pioneering partnership linking Tier 1 to helping offenders within the prison system to improve their lives and future prospects.

Learning of the prestigious award, Jonathan said: “Winning the Queen’s Award for Enterprise is one of our proudest achievements. It is also a testament to the dedication and support of all the staff at Tier 1 who are fully supportive and involved in our Prison Workshop initiative. Without them being an active part of our story this achievement would not have been possible.”

Tier 1’s ground-breaking programme has seen more than 130 offenders emerging from prison with vital qualifications in IT recycling, helping them give back to society by finding employment and apprenticeships thanks to their new life skills and work ethic.

It all begins inside the Category B prison where Tier 1 has built a recycling workshop. IT equipment that has failed or cannot be refurbished at the company’s warehouse is taken to HMP Forest Bank, where prisoners dismantle the kit into component parts, avoiding the need to send any IT waste to landfill. A report in February 2019 named the UK as the worst country for illegally disposing of electronic waste, dumping shipments in Nigeria, Tanzania and Pakistan. Tier 1 is proud to say that they send nothing to landfill.

The waste-processing workshop enables Tier 1 to process significant amounts of IT waste every month by providing a well established, cost efficient processing operation.

“It’s a win-win situation,” says Jonathan. “The prison provides a local base, which we can visit for any day-to-day operational matters. It reduces waste transportation time and costs. Whilst we might be a ‘for profit’ business, we use our profits to make a real difference.”

Through this inspiring initiative, Tier 1’s IT recycling scheme continues to help former prisoners find work experience, education, employment, apprenticeships and positions as volunteers, many gaining an NVQ qualification, with some of them going on to work for Tier 1 at the company’s Whitefield base.

Tier 1’s unfaltering commitment to helping

Tier 1 is the UK’s leading IT secure asset disposal, refurbishment and recycling business

Tier 1’s co-founder and MD Jonathan Rose

former prisoners find their place back in society reaches beyond the prison gates. After release, ANTZ provides a ‘Through the Gate’ back-to-work programme, funded by Tier 1 from the recycling work undertaken at the prison. In addition, Atos, world leaders in IT transformation and Tier 1’s major client, introduced a mentoring programme which ‘overlays’ Tier 1’s Through the Gate initiative, and both programmes are managed by ANTZ. Newly released offenders are helped to secure and sustain new lives through this scheme, which for some might have given them their first ever experience of work.

Jonathan explains further: “We have always tried to conduct our business in a professional and ethical manner. To be recognised for this with such an accolade makes all our efforts worthwhile. To win the award for Promoting Opportunity makes this even more special.”

Matt Spencer, Director of Justice Services at

Forest Bank, says: “It has been a pleasure working in partnership with Tier 1 for a number of years.

“They continually show their commitment to helping Forest Bank instil a work ethic amongst our residents, and have provided work to keep our residents busy during their custodial sentence, which is appreciated by Forest Bank.

“Tier 1 have worked in partnership with us to provide work for hundreds of residents over the years so that they leave Forest Bank with a much greater chance of useful and productive employment on release. Through its financial contributions to ANTZ, Tier 1 has continued this commitment to reducing reoffending by continuing to encourage useful and productive employment after release via work programmes, work experience and real jobs.”

Nikki Kelly, Senior Vice President at Atos, adds: “We are delighted that Tier 1 has been recognised by the Queen’s Award for its valuable work in promoting opportunity through social mobility. Since launching the mentor programme in partnership with Tier 1 and ANTZ in 2015, it has made a real and measurable difference to communities. We look forward to further building on this momentum and supporting participants to help overcome personal challenges, grow professionally and create a positive impact for themselves and society.”

Tier 1 will turn 25 next year, and Jonathan says he can’t think of a more fitting tribute to everyone involved within Tier 1 than to celebrate 25 years alongside winning the Queen’s Award.

TIER 1 59 Stanley Road, Whitefield, Manchester, M45 8GZ Tel: + 44 (0)161 777 1000 • www.tier1.com

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PRESENTATIONS & CELEBRATIONS TPS Global: 2018 International Trade TISS staff being presented with the Queens Awrds for International Trade

by Lord Shuttleworth.

(L to R) David Mitchell (Chairman of TISS), Paul Cook, Julie Holmes, Nick Hyde, Debbie Fernie, Ryan Wholey (CEO), Lord Lt of Lancashire (Lord Shuttleworth), Katherine Wholey (Managing Director), Blackpool Mayor Gary Coleman, Matthew Rose (Director) and Richard Forster (Technical Director)

LittlePods: 2018 Sustainable Development David Fursdon, Lord Lieutenant of Devon, presenting the cup to Janet Sawyer BEM and the team LittlePodders.

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Artemida Pharma Ltd ARTEMIDA PHARMA is a particularly active in the well-established specialist field of new methodologies drug development to directly target tumours consultancy whose highly as well as oncology experienced scientists immunotherapy. represent multiple Artemida Pharma’s model disciplines and therapeutic of networked resources areas. Artemida Pharma provides optimum flexibility offers optimised strategic with regard to its services drug development and to clients. The company’s project management strength is in building to start-up, biopharma relationships with industry and mid-sized pharma experts, both individuals companies based in UK and and companies, and internationally. Artemida applying the combined Pharma provides end-toknowledge to support end services, encompassing clients. strategic clinical, regulatory The company runs a and commercial expertise, structured model involving along with a focus on accessing and coordinating technical pharmaceutical the best skills through development of small specialists to address the Artemida Pharma Managing Partners meet HRH molecules and biological distinct technical areas – Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace on 28th June 2018 agents. which are applied to the The company lends its common project – and expertise to the cutting-edge of medicines which are overseen by Artemida Pharma. In this development by taking novel treatments from lab way clients are able to access skills to which they research through to human studies and has been may not have had ready access. This integrated

network way of working ensures that the quality of the end result is greater than the sum of the individual parts.

The Artemida Pharma business operational model is essentially without limits as it can expand its resource pool to provide expertise in a broad range of technical and disease areas to deliver the programmes in accordance with client contracts.

This flexibility provides limitless expansion while maintaining a low-level fixed cost within the business.

Artemida Pharma’s principal office is located in the heart of one of the UK’s leading biopharmaceutical scientific communities, the Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst. Additional offices are in Dublin, Ireland (Artemida Pharma Europe Limited) and Strasbourg, France.

ARTEMIDA PHARMA LTD Stevenage Bioscience Catalyst, Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2FX ARTEMIDA PHARMA EUROPE LTD Fitzwilliam Hall, Fitzwillim Place, Dublin 2, Ireland Tel/fax: +44 (0)800 6894391 info@artemidapharma.com www.artemidapharma.com F artemida-pharma-limited

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Advanced Insulation

ADVANCED INSULATION is a multi-discipline global leader in the provision of safety critical products for the offshore and onshore oil and gas industry. With customers operating in ever more challenging environments, its expertise is focused on being a supplier of innovative products such as Passive Fire Protection (PFP), Buoyancy and Cable Protection Systems, as well as solutions that improve the safety and efficiency of the installation.

In addition to the design, supply, installation and commissioning of its insulation and passive fire protection systems the company also has significant capability in buoyancy and SURF products and insulation jackets.

Gloucester-based Advanced Insulation has demonstrated how continued investment in innovation (up to 10% of revenue is continuously invested in R&D) drives company growth and ensures that new products are always in development. They are delighted to have now won five Queen’s Awards. For Innovation (2013, 2017 and 2018) and International Trade (2012 and 2016).

Advanced Insulation are flexible and able to respond quickly to challenges that their customers need help to solve today by switching resource to a specific project – this approach often results in something quite innovative being developed.

The Company’s most recent award (for Innovation in 2018), was for the development of ContraFlame® MS400, which provides combined thermal insulation and fire protection for the underdeck of an offshore oil and gas platform. With weight savings of up to 80% compared to traditional materials, ContraFlame® MS400 delivers significant savings to platform operators. As drilling and production rigs are installed in increasingly harsh environments, which require platforms of an increasing size and weight, the need for lightweight safeguarding systems that meet the required safety standards, to protect life and equipment is increasing.

Duke of Gloucester presenting the Advanced Insulation project team with their 2017, Innovation award.

To support its global operations, the company has manufacturing facilities at three sites within the UK and in Brazil, Kazakhstan, South Korea and the UAE, and in addition offices in the USA and Korea.

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Family business, Bettys & Taylors Group, has a tea and coffee supply chain which touches over a million people across 24 countries.

While it’s long been committed to trading responsibly, recently the business has transformed the way it works with suppliers, helping them to become more sustainable in the face of challenges such as climate change and poverty. The Queen’s Tea smallholders in Kenya, beneficiaries of a project to Award honours Bettys & Taylors’ commitment to putting its values plant one million trees. at the heart of the way it sources, its leadership within its sector, and the impact it’s having on lives, livelihoods and communities around the world.

One example of the business’s impact is its work with growers in Kenya.

Here, the business has worked with suppliers to install rainwater harvesting and filtration systems in 50 schools and community centres; supported secondary schoolchildren with educational bursaries; and is funding a 10-year project to plant one million trees with 4,000 tea smallholders, providing them with additional income, while delivering environmental protection.

Since our inception in 2006, environmental, economic and social sustainability has underpinned our success. We are now one of the largest UK companies designing, manufacturing and installing PVCu and aluminium windows, doors and curtain walling systems.

We produce over 2000 windows and doors each week, and 1000s of square metres of curtain walling every year, from The company generates virtually no landfill waste our main manufacturing base thanks to its extensive in-house recycling facilities. in Cumbernauld and our door factory in Kirkcaldy. We aim to close-the-loop in everything we do and we reintroduce as much of our waste, including all extracted window and door material, as possible back into the manufacturing cycle. As well as manufacturing the highest quality, energy efficient, low carbon products, we have a commitment to apprenticeships and youth employment.

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City Building LLP

Customer Service Excellence Award.

CITY BUILDING LLP is a proud recipient of a prestigious Queen’s Award for Sustainable Development in 2018.

Our 2,200-strong workforce is extremely proud of this achievement, which recognises the team’s hard work and commitment to customers and communities in which we serve.

This award also recognises our achievements in sustainable development, by providing innovative, sustainble and value-for-money solutions to our customers’ needs, while creating life-changing opportunities for our 250 Craft Apprentices and 260 employees at our supported manufacturing factory in Glasgow, Royal Strathclyde Blindcraft Industries (RSBi).

Our unrelenting focus on business excellence goes hand in hand with our unique social ethos of combining commercial success with socially

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responsible practices.

We provide a wide range of construction, maintenance and manufacturing services, including: ● Repairs and maintenance; ● design and build construction; ● new house building; ● major investment and refurbishment; ● manufacturing; ● training; ● specialist services; and ● micro-renewable solar thermal and solar PV installations.

CITY BUILDING LLP City Building, 350 Darnick Street, Glasgow G21 4B Tel: +44 (0) 141 287 2200 Fax: +44 (0) 141 287 7100 www.citybuildingglasgow.co.uk

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Conversion Rate Experts

CFC Underwriting Ltd

CONVERSION RATE EXPERTS (CRE) is the world’s largest agency that focuses solely on conversion rate optimisation (CRO) – a term that it coined in 2007.

It has measurably grown hundreds of businesses in over 80 different sectors, including Conversion Rate Experts’ team celebrating their win Apple, Amazon, Google and Dropbox – plus many smaller businesses. The company carries out experiments – A/B-tests – on its clients’ websites. It has over 77 testimonials and video testimonials, many of which describe how CRE more than doubled the clients’ sales.

CRE’s business depends on being able to do something that’s almost impossibly hard: to measurably improve the world’s most sophisticated websites. Its award for innovation was for creating a methodology that is scientific and that consistently makes websites better.

Although CRE is based in the UK, it has a multinational team, working remotely across seven different countries. The company serves clients across 37 countries in 11 languages. Eighty-one percent of its revenue comes from overseas.

CFC is a specialist insurance provider and a pioneer in emerging risk. With a track record of disrupting inefficient insurance markets, we use proprietary technology to deliver highquality products to market faster than the competition while making it easier for brokers to do business.

We’re on a mission to radically simplify the way Founder & CEO Dave Walsh with Chief Innovation Officer business insurance is bought Graeme Newman and sold. To do that, we challenge assumptions, innovate constantly and use technology to drive change in our markets.

We have been on the forefront of cyber insurance for 20 years and have one of the largest cyber underwriting and claims teams in the world. Our broad range of commercial insurance products are purpose-built for today’s risks, and we aim to give our customers everything they need in one, easyto-understand policy.

Our 320 employees work from a single office in the heart of The City of London, serving more than 70,000 businesses in 80 countries.

CONVERSION RATE EXPERTS 207 Regent Street, London, W1B 3HH • Tel: +44 (0)203 368 6212 info@conversion-rate-experts.com • www.conversion-rate-experts.com conversion-rate-experts

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Clinton Devon Estates Our business ethos is brilliantly articulated by my predecessor Robert Lipscomb who was Steward of the Estate from 1865 to 1892, writes Estates Director John Varley. In his ledger, Lipsomb wrote: “Our power for good or evil in this world’s affairs in a countryside is enormous. You may do much, very much, to make many hundreds of people of all grades prosperous and contented, or the reverse.”

150 years later, I believe that Lipscomb’s words are more relevant than ever before. Landed estates are among the most sustainable businesses in Britain; with an enormous capacity for delivering positive outcomes for society, the environment and the economy – and on a significant scale.

Our work in Devon has been recognised with three consecutive Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in the category of Sustainable Development: 2005, 2010 and 2015. Among our many sustainable business activities, we’re proud to provide affordable homes for local people, places for employment, renewable energy and thousands of acres of public open space for leisure activities as well as important habitats for wildlife.

Our commercial forests produce sustainable timber and our farming enterprises - both our organic in-hand dairy and tenant operations - produce food and drink for consumption locally and nationally, whilst respecting and enhancing nature and the environment.

We have our eye on the future, firmly committing to doing today what’s right for tomorrow. Each year, hundreds of children and adults are learning more about the countryside thanks to our hands-on educational programmes and we’re growing the next generation of leaders in sustainable land and property management with six bright young people on our trainee and apprenticeship programmes.

Supporting the next generation through apprenticeships Robert Lipscomb – Steward of the Estate from 1865 to 1892

As a 700 year old family business, we will continue to be inspired by our history and dedicated to doing our very best to ensure the welfare and prosperity of our environment, our communities and society as a whole.

CLINTON DEVON ESTATES The Rolle Estate Office, Bicton Arena, East Budleigh, Devon, EX9 7BL Tel: 01395 443881 • mail@clintondevon.com • www.clintondevon.com

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Durbin PLC DURBIN is a global medical supply company that sources and distributes pharmaceuticals, medical equipment and consumable supplies to healthcare professionals worldwide, including the NGO and charities sector. It has offices and warehousing in both the UK and USA. The company can supply everything from a single cold chain item to large scale humanitarian projects.

Established more than 50 years ago, the company recently Leslie Morgan OBE DL, Durbin CEO. moved its UK operation to new headquarters close to London’s Heathrow Airport, which include over 40,000 sq ft of warehouse space. CEO Leslie Morgan, OBE DL, said: “Myself and the whole Durbin team are extremely proud to have won this most prestigious award which truly recognises the international nature of Durbin’s business in exporting worldwide and our contribution to the UK economy.”

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Electronic Temperature Instruments Ltd ELECTRONIC TEMPERATURE INSTRUMENTS LTD (ETI) was set up 35 years ago and is the UK’s largest digital thermometer manufacturer and exporter of electronic thermometers and temperature probes. In 2018 they were granted Thermapen Professional Thermometer the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for Innovation, the fourth Queen’s Award for the company since gaining its first in 2012.

ETI has a comprehensive, global network of distributors enabling ETI products to be sold worldwide. In addition to manufacturing thermometers, probes, data-loggers and pH meters, ETI has an in-house UKAS accredited calibration laboratories for both temperature and humidity.

Thermapen thermometers, manufactured by ETI Ltd are used worldwide for many different applications and are the UK’s number one selling food thermometer. Offering a combination of speed, accuracy and convenience of use, the Thermapen Professional Thermometer uses advanced technology and incorporates a number of innovative features including a patented 360° selfrotating display. Various models complete the Thermapen range including the new Thermapen IR infrared and Thermapen Blue with Bluetooth technology.

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Entier Ltd ENTIER is Scotland’s largest independent contract catering and support services company providing first-class catering, housekeeping, maintenance and hospitality services to the oil and gas, education and business sectors as well as high quality catering for corporate events, private functions and weddings.

Founded in September 2008, Entier has grown in both the domestic and international marketplaces, to a company with a turnover of over £55m, operating on 38 offshore units across 23 different countries, with operational bases globally and manned offices in Aberdeen, Houston, Perth, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Trinidad & Tobago.

Having established ourselves as the catering company to beat locally, our clear vision for strategic international growth, against a backdrop of significant downturn in North Sea Operations, has been built on a credible business base with our international operations now representing over 55% of our overall business.

One of our founding principles is to ensure a beneficial impact for the local communities in which we work. Relations with our strategic suppliers, partners and contractors have played a key role in our growth both locally and internationally. Taking a different approach to each market, we establish strategic partnerships

Entier’s unique approach is to work with local communities and suppliers

Head chef Orry Shand based at Olive house in Aberdeen, standing with the coveted trophy for being crowned Scottish Chef of the Year 2019

to provide us with best quality, local food products as well as local labour, which is innovative in our sector. This has allowed us to “Think Global and Act Local” which is respected by our clients, sets us apart from our competitors and has been critical to our success. Truly working with local suppliers in local communities has helped establish us as “The Local, Global Food Family”.

Our strong customer relationships have proven time and again that we deliver consistently high quality products and service.

We have over 90% retention of business, with a significant proportion of growth from clients having awarded us a contract in part, which has

subsequently led, either directly or through a tender process, to further business based on performance.

As a service company, people are integral and key to our success. The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise represents the collective efforts of the people within our company and we are honoured to have achieved this level of recognition.

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FX Blue Group

Euromixers design and FX Blue is a London-based manufacture Industrial FinTech company providing Fluid Mixers and we are innovative, multi-lingual software honoured to be recognised as a service solution to banks, as winners of The Queen’s brokers, liquidity providers and Award for Enterprise in crypto platforms in more than the category of Innovation 20 countries worldwide. in recognition for our A leader in its field, FX Blue innovative design / produces software that enables invention of IBC mixers operators in the foreign exchange incorporating a unique and trading markets to simplify design of folding impeller the management of complex (E-400) capable of mixing a The proud Euromixers team, pictured with Paul Griffiths transactions, to better assess risk wide range of products. and sentiment, to analyse complex We were delighted to data and to produce automated welcome The Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Greater Manchester Mr Paul Griffiths data tracking, alerts and reports. to our office last year to make the presentation on behalf of Her Majesty The FX Blue has also developed Queen, his enthusiasm and interest in our achievements was inspirational.

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GAMA Healthcare Ltd

Globus Group

GAMA HEALTHCARE is a specialist infection control company founded by two medical doctors with a long-standing interest in microbiology and infection control.

GAMA’s aim is to reduce healthcare associated infections worldwide.

From small beginnings in 2004, GAMA has grown to become the largest supplier Co-founders Dr Allen Hanouka and Dr Guy Braverman of wet wipes to the NHS, as receive the award. well as exporting to over 60 countries. The company received the Queen’s Award for International Trade, recognising over 50% growth in overseas sales over the last three years. GAMA’s success stems from innovative, high-quality products backed by scientific research, training and extensive after sales support. Founding partner, Dr Guy Braverman said “We are delighted to receive this prestigious award, which is a testament to the hard work of the entire GAMA team and the strong international demand for GAMA’s market leading offering.”

Having received the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in 2017, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) manufacturer and solutions provider, Globus Group, has relocated to T2 at Manchester’s Trafford Point; a brand new multi-million-pound warehouse and office facility.

The 100,000 sq. ft development The new multi-million-pound 100,000 sq.ft Globus Group warehouse and office facility comes on the back of over a decade of sustained growth and a significant increase in staff numbers; underpinned by both growing domestic and international demand. Globus Group manufactures and supplies leading safety protection brands including, ALPHA SOLWAY chemical clothing, disposable respirators and hearing protection; RILEY performance eyewear; ENHA head & face protection and SKYTEC hand protection. In addition, Globus has a strong collaboration with SHOWA gloves, partnering across the UK & EMEA regions.

Stock holding capacity has increased dramatically, a manufacturing zone introduced and state of the art quality control systems enhanced. Office and conferencing facilities span 3 floors and can accommodate up to 200 delegates.

Haraldur Agustsson (CEO), said: “We are proud and excited to move into our new premises, which is testimony to everyone’s hard work. The move enables us to realise our ambitious growth targets, enhances service response times and provides a fantastic space to engage with our customers.”

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FAI Automotive Plc The Queens Award for Enterprise – International Trade has been awarded to FAI AUTOMOTIVE PLC, giving the long-established British company the well-earned recognition it deserves after impressive International growth.

Grown from a rich British car racing heritage, FAI has been family owned and run since its creation

by Ian Walker. Originally a racing driver throughout the 50s, Ian went on to form Ian Walker Racing, working with legendary drivers such as Jackie Stewart and Graham Hill. The racing gene was passed from father to son, demonstrated by Sean, also enjoying a successful racing career, most notably; his participation in the British Touring Car Championship. The company was originally formed to supply a specialist engine rebuilder market, however, the father-son duo realised the untapped potential in general vehicle parts market and have never looked back.

FAI has always seen the importance of overseas trade and established a dedicated office early in the companies’ inception. The board of directors, spear-headed by Managing Director Sean Walker, used decades of industry knowledge and ingenuity to compile an Export expansion strategy which would catapult the business into uncharted territory. Investment in larger premises and a hand-picked workforce contributed to the success needed to win this Royal stamp of excellence. FAI expanded its international presence by recruiting regional specialists which have resulted in an export division, now capable of delivering market leading service to over 50 countries, the results of which have shown significant year on year market share, future growth already mapped out for the foreseeable future.

In true keeping with the company’s racing roots, FAI has maintained an annual motorsport sponsorship ranging from British Touring Cars to International motorcycle racing. Their motorsport backing announcement for 2019 was one of the biggest deals to date – Official Sponsorship of the Ducati / Aruba.it World Superbike Championship

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Team. Already familiar with one of the incredibly talented British riders - Chaz Davies, FAI saw such excitement from the Italian market that backing the full team was the next logical investment.

FAI use this involvement to give the brand much greater visibility on a global basis as well as allowing local customers in various markets to witness the exciting world of motorcycle racing from its unique perspective.

Charity contributions have also been an important part of FAI’s mission to give back to the community. The latest and highest profile involvement is the sponsorship and support of a new disability sports initiative dubbed “Yes We Can”. Whilst the Leighton-Linslade Rotary Club scheme encompasses a broad range of sports for people of all ages with disabilities, FAI is the primary sponsor of the MK Dons Sports & Education Trust (SET) backed football team - ‘The Buzzards’. The “Yes We Can” project has since been awarded the 2018 Rotary National Community Cup, only presented to those who establish a

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One of FAI’s market leading engine component ranges, Timing Chain Kits

project for the benefit of the local community. This prestigious award acknowledges the outstanding dedication, hard work and exemplary passion the Leighton-Linslade Rotary Club have channelled into the initiative.

Richard Johnson OBE said, “Rotary are delighted to have secured such a prestigious company as FAI to be our partner in providing Football within the “Yes We Can” Disability Sports Initiative.

In FAI & MK Dons SET we have two highly professional organisations with vast experience in delivering excellence, which will ensure the best opportunities for those with a Disability in our very own Buzzards Football Program.”

FAI AUTOMOTIVE PLC The Chiltern Trading Estate, Grovebury Road, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, LU7 4TU Tel: +44 (0)1525 351800 • enquiry@faiauto.com www.faiauto.com

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HotHouse Partnerships Ltd HOTHOUSE PARTNERSHIPS is delighted to have received a Queen’s Award in recognition of its outstanding results in International Trade over the past three years. HotHouse creates, develops and manufactures its own brands of personal care and beauty products in the UK for the retail and online sector at home as well as internationally.

The HotHouse partnership was started in 2007 by experienced sales and marketing professionals, with the aim of creating British brands, all with UK-manufactured products. The first brand developed was targeted at the US market, but with its quintessentially British positioning, it was technically born global!

HotHouse is most famous for its self-tan brand St Moriz, along with children’s bath-time toiletries Kids Crazy Stuff, haircare brands ColourVibe & Shades (London) and Asper & Jones English toiletries.

For the St Moriz brand, the export business has enjoyed real success, with the USA being its first real achievement. This is down to the quality of its UK heritage and product innovation, which allowed the use of British quality to help secure

business. Our brands are now sold in more than 30 international markets through well-established distributors, to ensure our products are readily available within the global retailers we trade with.

The Queen’s Award comes in a celebratory 10th year for the brand. St Moriz prides itself on its great quality, affordable beauty positioning – creating competitively priced products that deliver instant, flawless, natural and long-lasting professional tan results at home. The product range covers all aspects of self-tanning, including preparation

Some of HotHouse’s iconic British brands.

The St Moriz brand has enjoyed huge international success.

and maintenance products, from primers and moisturisers to tan gels, lotions, sprays and mousse formulas.

HotHouse Partnerships is extremely proud that the award also recognises excellence in all areas of the business and the QA emblem will be used with pride on all our products, literature and marketing materials and shared around the world.

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Since winning our Queen’s Award, our business has grown from strength to strength. We have been continuing to build new agency partnerships internationally and have also expanded our UK operations by opening a dedicated facility in Aberdeen.

Our turnkey operations supply a broad range of topside and subsea equipment to the oil and gas sector. Our industry reputation is built upon quality processes, which combined with our engineering know-how, create world-class products compliant with the highest safety standards in the sector. Most renowned are our bespoke Intervention Workover Control Systems (IWOCS).

We believe our commitment to deliver first-class service standards sets us apart from the competition. We pride ourselves in ‘going the extra mile’ and strive to achieve feedback reviews of “excellent” not just “good”. Training and supporting our employees undertake continuous professional development is key to this aim. A recent example has been enabling members of our project management team attain APM (Association for Project Management) membership.

We are extremely proud of our industry reputation, but as a business are certainly not complacent. Post downturn, our clients have emerged increasingly focused on financial returns. While we know the quality of our products offer clients the assurance of superior reliability and asset longevity, we remain committed to a programme of continual improvement by; refining our processes, adopting new proven technologies and streamlining our systems to maximise cost benefits for ourselves and our clients.

By being proactive in building strong international partnerships and adaptive to the changing needs of our existing clients, we are confident we can maintain our successful track record of strong growth. The expansion of our manpower services division has been in direct response to growing

HCS Technician completing a high pressure test on an IWOCS system

demand from clients to additionally support; equipment installation, servicing, maintenance and general site operations. We anticipate manpower services will form a greater share of our group’s business in the future.

HCS are an ambitious company, committed to establishing their engineering credentials globally. Our future focus is firmly on delivering an integrated product and service solution second to none in our industry.

HCS Unit V2, Viewfield Industrial Estate, Glenrothes KY6 2QX • Tel: +44 (0)1592 770786 Email: sales@hcscsl.com • www.hcs-control-systems.com

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Honeycomb Project Management Ltd Jo Bird & Co. Ltd Honeycomb Project Management created and launched Monty Bojangles in 2009, the brand is now one of the UK’s fastest growing confectionery brands. Its multiaward winning cocoa-dusted truffles are sold across major retailers in the UK, as well as in many speciality, high street, and convenience stores.

Monty Bojangles’ Choccy Scoffy, a best seller in the The mischievous team at range, available in Waitrose, Morrisons, Tesco, Asda and Monty Bojangles – creators of Sainsburys stores. curiously moreish adventures in taste – go to great lengths to bring fun and playfulness into people’s lives.

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Jo Bird & Co Ltd celebrating winning The Queen’s Award for a second year.

Jo Bird & Co. Ltd are delighted to have received The Queen’s Award for a second time.

This recognition is testament to our four-year investment in an academic and innovative research project. The findings for which have been designed into our fire equipment and lifesaving cabinet range, ensuring Jo Bird & Co. Ltd remain confidently at the forefront of our industry’s product research and development.

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JTA World-leading independent sports consultancy JTA received the honour of a second Queen’s Award in 2018, reflecting the company’s outstanding ability to sustain considerable export growth.

Established in 2008, JTA specialises in communications, brand building, international relations and public affairs in sport. JTA won its first Queen’s Award in 2014 after consistently winning retained new business with stakeholders at every level of the Olympic Movement and the global sports industry. JTA’s unrivalled client base includes International Sports Federations, National Olympic Committees, bid and organising committees, sponsors and professional sports teams.

In November 2018, HRH The Duke of Kent presented staff at JTA with the “Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade 2018” at the company’s head office in Kent. JTA Founder and Chairman Jon Tibbs OBE welcomed HRH The Duke of Kent and the Lord-Lieutenant of Kent, Viscount De L’Isle MBE, for the formal presentation of the award.

Reflecting on the award, Jon Tibbs said: “It was truly an honour to be presented with such a prestigious award from His Royal Highness in the office where JTA officially started 10 years ago. It was a truly special day for all the UK-based staff at JTA, and a reminder to everyone of the value of their dedication and hard work. JTA is incredibly proud to be recognised as a growing British exporter. We are driven by the excitement of new challenges in new parts of the world and we are determined to continue growing in markets we have yet to explore.”

To help accelerate further overseas growth, JTA has opened a new office in Beijing and plans to open one in Lausanne in the near future.

However, the heart of JTA remains rooted in the local community, with its headquarters based in Kent, where the company was founded. The company’s fast-growing core client-facing team is based in JTA’s central

HRH The Duke of Kent presents the JTA team with its second Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade, in recognition of its outstanding ability to sustain export growth

London office, where a young staff is dedicated to sustaining JTA’s reputation as a world leader in the sports communication sector.

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incognito® iNCOGNITO® is the UK’s leading natural insect repellent brand and we were delighted to receive the Queens Award for sustainable development in 2015. incognito® was born out of our founder Howard Carter’s misfortune when contracting both Malaria and Dengue fever whilst using apparently effective synthetic products. This spurred him to look into environmentally and people friendly alternatives and the concept of the incognito insect camouflage spray was born.

As an ethical brand with a focus on sustainable & effective products, we received our Queen’s award for developing a range of chemical-free and environmentally friendly insect repellents,which are clinically tested to be 100% effective. At the time, challenging the preconceptions of natural products being less effective than their established chemical counterparts was difficult, but since then we’ve seen the rise of natural, veganism and lifestyle changes combined with a huge increase in environmental awareness, particularly around the use of plastics. incognito® is now proud to announce that we’ve pushed the boundaries further, and all key line packaging is made from renewable source sugarcane. Traditional plastic manufacturing uses fossil based raw materials such as oil or natural gas, whereas the renewable sugarcane captures CO2 from the atmosphere, helping to reduce green house gas emissions.

Unlike regular plastics, which can’t be recycled without damaging the recycling chain, our new packaging is totally recyclable and provides a genuine direct replacement for standard HDPE and PET perfect for a truly sustainable packaging solution.

We are also delighted to announce that to make travel packing even easier, we’ve launched a ground-breaking multi-tasking product – our SPF30 mineral suncream with insect repellent and moisturiser combined.

This is a breakthrough travel essential - what many people don’t realise is that insect repellent and the SPF in suncream can have detrimental effects on each other and lessen efficacy when used together.

This results in people getting unexpected sunburn or bites.

Our unique product saves on

incognito® founders Howard and Patricia Carter, General Manager Nicky Monina with London Mayor Sadiq Khan and Rajesh Agrawal, Deputy Mayor for Business

packaging and also enhances efficacy while being fully sustainable.

We continue to push the boundaries and develop new products, but at the moment we are the only company making a truly natural range of complementary insect repellent and associated travel products.

We are now stocked in key retailers such as Boots, Sainsburys, Ocado, Waitrose, Robert Dyas, Lloyds and Well Pharmacy, natural stores and independent pharmacies. We are just in the process of launching two brand new additions to the incognito family, our pocket size suncream – so people can be prepared on every occasion – no excuse to be unprotected.

To top off our year, London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan paid us visit to congratulate us on our achievements in the wake of Grenfell (our offices are part of the same block) and to discuss improvements that can be made for both local business and residents going forward. incognito’s products have won multiple awards and we consistently strive to be the best at what we do and to being the best for the future of our planet. iNCOGNITO® 10 Baseline Business Studios Whichurch Road, London W11 4AT UK • Tel: +44 (0) 207 792 8687 info@lessmosquito.com • https://lessmosquito.com

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Lintbells Ltd Last year, the UK-based manufacturer of premium natural pet supplements has been awarded the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise for the second time.

In 2006 the founders of Lintbells discovered a shared passion and desire to improve the lives of pets through the creation of innovative natural supplements.

Ten years on, Lintbells has successfully launched several market-leading pet supplement ranges that support healthy lives for dogs, cats and horses around the world. Each product uses the highest quality ingredients sourced from around the globe, centring on the company’s proprietary ActivEase® Green Lipped Mussel, which is sourced from sustainable farms off the coast of New Zealand.

Last year the business celebrated a new milestone as it receives the renowned Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade.

This followed the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation, which was awarded to Lintbells in 2016 for the pioneering research and development of the UK’s number-one joint supplement, YuMOVE. To receive this Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade demonstrates the fantastic growth by Lintbells and success at a global level.

The Lintbells team based in Hitchin in Hertfordshire

Established in the UK and based in Weston, Hertfordshire, Lintbells export supplements to over 20 countries worldwide.

This fantastic success has been achieved by a dedicated work force that ‘think global, act local’ and work towards the Lintbells philosophy: to help keep pets visibly full of life.

John Howie, CEO and co-founder of Lintbells, said: “We’re delighted that our international growth has been recognised by such a prestigious award. It’s always been our vision that Lintbells would grow to help better the lives of animals across the globe.

“At the centre of our innovative products is a scientific focus ensuring the effectiveness of all our supplements, which is why our products are so successful at supporting animals achieve a better quality of life.”

For more information about Lintbells visit www. lintbells.com or call 01462 790886.

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Lily’s Kitchen

When Henrietta Morrison’s beloved Border Terrier Lily was suffering from sore, itchy skin, she turned to home cooking healthy, natural food after a shocking discovery that it was the poor quality ingredients in the food she’d been unwittingly feeding Lily that was making her ill.

In 2008 LILY’S KITCHEN was founded and is now a leading force for proper food for pets in the UK and further afield.

Henrietta’s sole focus has always been driving change for the better, spending two years working with experts to develop a natural pet food made with fresh, proper meat and free from cheap fillers and additives. This ethos was completely new to the industry and through sheer determination and a dedication to improving pets’ lives, Lily’s Kitchen is now a successful, socially and environmentallyresponsible, British business. Lily’s Kitchen is a founding member of B Corp UK and has also been the UK’s Number One Ethical Pet Food Company since its launch, achieving a 100% score in The Ethical Good Shopping Guide and most importantly receives top marks from customers, rated by independent review site, Feefo.

Having started with just Henrietta and Lily at their kitchen table, the business now has a team of 50 (plus numerous cat and dog tasters). Lily’s

Kitchen still very much remains a local company, based in Hampstead, North London where Lily enjoys her walks every day on the Heath.

The range of recipes has now grown to over 55 including innovative treats such as the new natural Woofbrush dental chew created with pet dental experts, and is currently available nationwide in Waitrose, Morrisons, Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Pets At Home and Amazon as well as in Wholefoods,

Lily’s Kitchen natural recipes for dogs and cats

Daylesford Organic, vet surgeries, over 800 independent pet shops and www.lilyskitchen.co.uk.

Every single member of the team, two legs and four, are incredibly proud to be bestowed with The Queen’s Award for Innovation. Henrietta says: “The Queen’s Award is the ultimate accolade and particularly for innovation. It is a huge honour, and testament to our continued uncompromising approach to the pet food we produce.”

Henrietta Morrison and Lily, the Border Terrier

LILY’S KITCHEN PO Box 59287, Vale of Health, London NW3 9JR Tel: +44 (0)207 433 1863 • hello@lilyskitchen.co.uk www.lilyskitchen.co.uk

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THE LITTLEPOD team have wonderful memories of 2018 when it was announced that we were winners of the coveted Queens Award for Enterprise in the Sustainable Development category.

Many celebrations followed our visit to the palace, not least the LittlePod garden party.

Colleagues, business associates and LittlePodders assembled, David Fursdon, Lord Lieutenant of Devon, raises the cup with together with other civic Janet Sawyer BEM to LittlePodders at home and abroad. dignitaries, at LPHQ for the presentation of the award and warrant on behalf of the Queen by David Fursdon, Lord Lieutenant of Devon.

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MANOR HOUSE DEVELOPMENT TRUST (MHDT) was delighted to have won the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in 2017 for Sustainable Development. MHDT is a social enterprise which assists developers and housebuilders deliver community on large scale MHDT is led by local residents with 80% of its staff regenerations. MHDT also local people. now runs schemes in Woodberry Down for Berkeley Homes and in Acton Gardens for Countryside Housing.

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Minesoft The Minesoft team on Richmond Green.

FTSE 100 companies, industrial corporations, patent attorney firms, universities and international patent authorities.

At the end of 2018, Minesoft was thrilled to win the award for Best Business from the Richmond Chamber of Commerce; also, to cheer on coowner, Ann Chapman as she received the award for Best Female Entrepreneur and, more recently, has been named Information Professional of the Year by a German industry magazine. Minesoft is headquartered in leafy Richmond-upon-Thames and has offices and representation globally.

With a reputation for combining well-designed user interfaces and cutting-edge technology with responsive service, Minesoft aims to encourage innovation worldwide.

Winner of the prestigious Queen’s Award for International Trade for the second time in 2015.

Intellectual Property (IP) solutions provider, MINESOFT, gives companies around the world

the tools they need to promote innovation and economic growth.

Minesoft has fast become an established leader in the IP field, working with many Fortune 500/

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Manvers Engineering Ltd MANVERS ENGINEERING LTD is a family run company that was established in the 1990’s (creating separation equipment for the tunnelling industries), but it wasn’t until 2008 that development commenced of what is now the market leading product Plant Nappy.

Smart Thinking in Spill Containment

The main goal of the Plant Nappy was to offer a user friendly solution for spill containment that would replace traditional products such as drip trays. The journey to achieve a viable product wasn’t without its difficulties and many hours were spent testing raw materials and trialling manufacturing processes to perfect the concept.

The final construction is unique, demonstrated by its dual purpose technology allowing the adsorption of oil / fuel whilst filtering out clean rainwater. The Plant Nappy can be made in almost any size and is UV and temperature resistant, fire retardant, high strength yet lightweight, flexible and crush resistant.

This means that getting it under any type of machinery is easy. It can either be placed under by hand (if you know where the machine may leak oil from) or the machine /equipment could be driven or rolled onto the Plant Nappy where by the entire machine would then be guarded against spillage. This is great for large equipment on construction sites such as generators. It can be used outdoors in all weather conditions and on any terrain meaning the protection offered is not compromised even in extreme environments.

Core Values

With a background in mining, tunnelling and construction industries yet passionate about environmental impact, Manvers Engineering

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Manvers Engineering Ltd is very proud to be amongst those given this rare and prestigious accolade!

Ltd are always striving to develop products that allows others to contribute to greener construction. Masses of time, energy and money go into research and development. This combined with the dedication of staff ensures their products are constantly evolving to offer greater efficiency and keep up with high customer expectations as environmental solutions become ever more important.

A great deal of thought, care and attention goes into the British manufactured product with raw materials and labour sourced locally where possible with a large proportion of the process being conducted “in house” at their premises in Barnsley, South Yorkshire.

Looking to the future

Manvers Engineering Ltd are keen to further develop the Plant Nappy idea and branch out, working on other products that would be useful in the field of spill control and environmental protection. Manvers Engineering is eager to push boundaries and find scientifically advanced solutions to environmental problems that have previously been too difficult to tackle. It is this dedication and drive that makes them stand out.

Many new products are currently in the pipeline that will further expand the product range under the well trusted Plant Nappy brand offering customers more choice and tailored products for their specific needs whilst of course keeping environmental protection at the forefront of any new designs.

“We try to meet market needs rather than invent needs and we welcome problems from people within the construction industry that we can possibly help them overcome”

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The MIDCOUNTIES COOPERATIVE was extremely proud to have been awarded the Queens Award for Enterprise: Sustainable Development in 2015 and over the last 5 years has made a significant impact locally as well as being part of a thriving co-operative movement globally.

This year through our Regional Communities and Keeping It Local sites, we have donated over 100,000 products to local foodbanks throughout our trading area. This is enough to provide meals to over 2,500 families in need and is our largest ever annual donation. This year we have also reduced our energy use by 3%, saving over 1,000 tonnes of CO2 and increased our recycling levels to 99%. We also welcomed a new Chief Executive Phil Ponsonby and our 700,000 member Tom Waggett, a 22% increase in Midcounties’ membership base in just under three years.

RED ARCH (RA) is one of the UK’s leading Automotive OE small/ medium volume component and accessory parts specialists.

For over 20 years RA has worked closely with the worlds largest vehicle manufacturers, providing innovative solutions and products for some of the world’s most famous vehicle brands. From development of an initial concept to realisation, RA offers a single source for a wide range of products covering all vehicle systems, with a specialist knowledge of powertrain and exhaust system components.

Continuous investment in technology and people in the areas of product, process and quality has resulted in growth of more than 450% over a four year period and a wide range of innovative products. With a dedicated and skilled team of 80 employees over three sites in Northamptonshire, RA delivers the highest quality products to its international customer base.

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MRT Castings Ltd MRT CASTINGS was established in 1947 in South London, and relocated the gravity and high pressure die casting processes. Subsequent precision to its current production base in Hampshire in 1965. MRT manufactures machining operations are performed by MRT’s 23 highly automated CNC aluminium and zinc die castings, precision machined components and machining centres. innovative electro-mechanical assemblies for hi-tech OEMs across the Surface finishing processes are managed by MRT through a network of world. The company remains a family owned business, and has a highly local specialist subcontractors. Finally, MRT offer a comprehensive electroskilled workforce of 55 staff. mechanical assembly service to integrate their castings into finished products MRT’s Queen’s Award for International Trade 2016 was a recognition of ready for direct distribution. the company’s outstanding growth in export sales over recent years. New Phil Rawnson, Managing Director and grandson of the Company’s production contracts from customers in the USA, Ireland, Hungary, Poland, founder, said “We were incredibly honoured to receive the Queen’s Award France and Germany grew exports to 56% of the company’s total sales. To for Enterprise, particularly in Her Majesty’s 90th Birthday year. It was a great support this expansion the company invested £1.5m in additional production tribute to the skill and hard work of the whole team at MRT, and gave us a capacity and automation, and moved into two additional manufacturing wonderful opportunity to pause and reflect on our recent achievements. The units adjacent to its existing site past few years have been a busy and in Andover. In 2018 our growth exciting period in the Company’s history, will continue, with construction and the Award was a great motivation commencing on a state-of-the-art to continue our development to create new foundry building to open next one of the most innovative and flexible year. production facilities in the global MRT focus on producing complex foundry industry.” components for applications in the

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Premier Coatings Ltd Specialist corrosion prevention, sealing and waterproofing products manufacturer, PREMIER COATINGS LTD based in Smarden, Kent, were awarded the Queen’s Award for Enterprise: International Trade in 2017.

The award is in recognition of the company’s excellent trading world-wide, which is due to a combination of dedicated staff, loyal agents and supplying a range of high quality products which offer long-term, effective solutions for their customers’ corrosion related problems.

The company was founded in 1982 and their corrosion prevention and sealing systems manufactured under a BS ISO Quality Assurance system, soon became well known for ease of use and reliability. Protecting steel from corrosion in aggressive environments their Premcote™ and Premtape™ self-adhesive wrapping tapes and sealing mastics were widely used in pipeline projects and maintenance work. They also produce the Premseal™ range of membranes for waterproofing, tanking and gas proofing applications. These membranes, which have BBA certification and CE Marking, have also gained a good reputation for good quality and longevity in service.

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International Ltd who enabled them to develop into new areas such as SeaShield™ systems for the protection of jetty piles and Protal™ liquid coatings for pipelines. Other new products added to their range include Premstrip™ for sealing and jointing precast concrete units, Steelcoat™ systems for the protection of exposed steel and Archco™ resistant linings for vessels, pipes and bunded areas. The support of Winn & Coales International has also allowed them to continue to invest in their Smarden factory.

Managing Director, Terry Capps, said: “I am delighted that Premier Coatings Ltd has won the prestigious Queen’s Award. It is essential that the credit for this award is shared by all who work for the company, including overseas subsidiaries and agents.”

“Without everyone’s efforts it would not have been possible to achieve and the Board of Directors’ thanks and congratulations go to all involved for their fantastic team effort.”

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Founded in 1851 by Cornishman Walter Hicks, ST AUSTELL BREWERY is a family owned, independent brewer and pub company offering distinctive experiences to guests across its award-winning estate of south-west pubs and hotels.

With depots at St Columb, Ilfracombe, Newton Abbot and Avonmouth, St Austell Brewery is also one of the region’s largest wholesalers of beers, wines, spirits and soft drinks. The acquisition of Bath Ales in 2016 provided a platform for wider strategic growth in the company’s south-west heartland.

One of the region’s largest wholesalers of beers, wines and spirits.

St Austell Brewery has a long-term commitment to ‘green’ brewing.

Although brewing is inherently an environmentally friendly process – using only the natural ingredients of water, barley, hops and yeast – a company incorporating two head offices, three breweries, four depots, 180 pubs and hotels as well as a logistics chain delivering to over 5,000 free trade businesses in the south-west is bound to create a sizeable carbon footprint.

The presentation of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the field of Sustainable Development is testimony to St Austell Brewery’s long-term commitment to green brewing, reducing the impact of its business on the environment and the

company’s awareness of its place in the local and wider community.

Chief executive James Staughton said: “St Austell Brewery is a company consisting of many different functions, including brewing, logistics and pubs – all of them award winners in their own right – but the Queen’s Award recognises the efforts of everyone at all levels across the business and that makes the award unique and very special.

“To us, sustainability is now second nature, as it should be with any organisation and this award isn’t just about the honour and prestige; just as important is the added insight it can offer towards the futureproofing of the business.”

The brewery, which employs over 1500 people across the south-west, nurtures local talent and provides career opportunities through links with local colleges and apprenticeship schemes and remains committed to exploring new avenues to maintain the continued growth of the business in a sustainable manner.

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SYGNATURE is a leading independent provider of integrated drug discovery and pre-clinical resource and expertise. We undertake target validation, hit identification, hitto-lead and lead optimisation projects and complete drug discovery programmes.

Sygnature offers fully-integrated discovery project support, as well as discipline-specific support in Enabling Success in Drug Discovery medicinal chemistry, computational sciences, in vitro biology, DMPK and in vivo pharmacology.

We add significant value to collaborations by providing advanced scientific knowledge and intellectual input to accelerate clients’ drug discovery projects from target validation and lead optimisation through to pre-clinical candidate.

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As an independent family run company we are delighted to have won the Queen’s Award in 2015 and 2018, our business has grown steadily through referrals and reputation and we The TPS Global Logistics team receive The Queen’s Award at their recently expanded into the US opening Aylesford warehouse. an office in 2018.

We take customer service seriously and between us have over 400 years of freight and logistics experience.

We provide logistics services and freight forwarding solutions for e-commerce, retail, time critical, high value and many more industries.

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The TALL Group of Companies THE TALL GROUP is a market leader in the provision of secure paper, electronic payment and cheque imaging solutions. TALL holds a unique position as a trusted partner supplying the UK’s major banks, blue-chip companies, retailers and print management companies.

Having successfully established its reputation domestically in the UK market, the TALL Group also operates internationally producing ballot papers, degree certificates and citizen registration documentation for customers around the world.

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The TALL Group comprises TALL Security Print Limited, in Runcorn, Cheshire; Checkprint Limited, in Hinckley, Leicestershire, and DLRT Limited, in Lisburn, County Antrim.

TALL is delighted to have won a Queen’s Award for International Trade 2018 for its outstanding short-term growth in overseas sales.

TALL is extremely proud of its recent strong performance, which further cements the group’s position as the industry leader.

TALL Group Managing Director, Martin Ruda said: “This award is a testament to TALL’s continuing commitment to our international business, and the support that we receive from our hard-working team of Agents and Representatives who spread the TALL name worldwide.

We have seen our investment in new products and services reap rewards both here at home in our traditional markets, as we meet the change in our ‘core legacy’ products, and now, increasingly in export territories as we open up new and exciting avenues for our traditional offerings enhanced by new technology, new products and services into new markets across the globe. We are delighted that we have been able to build on our experience and expertise into these areas.

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sites in the UK, I would like to say a big thankyou to all our loyal TALL Group staff, wherever you may be based, for your outstanding contribution, hard work and dedication and for the professional manner in which you have dealt with the needs of our customers all over the world. “ THE TALL GROUP OF COMPANIES Pembroke Court, Manor Park, Runcorn, Cheshire, WA7 1TJ • Tel: +44(0)1928 579 200 • Fax: +44(0)1928 579 294 Email: enquiries@tallgroup.co.uk • www.tallgroup.co.uk n @TheTALLGroupofCompanies F the-tall-group-of-companies Z @TheTALLGroup

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Siltbuster Ltd Siltbuster Ltd was created in 2003 by world-leading environmental engineering expert Dr Richard Coulton.

The company launched its first portable water treatment plant soon after which was immediately adopted as best environmental practice by BAA for the treatment of runoff waters produced during the construction of Heathrow Terminal 5. The revolutionary, easily transportable unit removed silt from wastewater which if released untreated into the environment could cause pollution: smothering fish eggs, blocking gills and ultimately killing fish and other aquatic life. This problem is common on most construction sites and the Environment Agency regularly prosecute offenders.

Siltbuster has grown into the leading service provider for all aspects of silt management and waterborne pollution prevention and control. The company is organised into two distinct divisions – one focused on the construction sector and the other supplying systems and expert advice to the water industry and industrial companies including food and drink manufacturers such as Heinz and Heineken. By following the principle of developing rapidly deployable, rugged solutions to customers’ problems, the company has developed a highly successful range of over 50 different modular

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systems, suited to different problems.

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hydrodemolition wastewater, oil water separators, chemical dosing and mixing units, pH adjustment, DAFs (dissolved air flotation units), moving bed biofilm reactors, filter presses and other dewatering solutions.

Siltbuster has the UK’s largest hire fleet of over 300 treatment systems which are rapidly deployable both nationally and internationally.

We’ve worked with the majority of the top 100 construction contractors with our equipment having been used on projects ranging from small residential developments to some of the largest civil infrastructure schemes recently undertaken including: Crossrail, Hinkley Point C, Olympic Park and Airbus’s new UK factory. Furthermore, Siltbuster systems have been exported to over 32 countries worldwide, being used for the Copenhagen Metro, raising of the Costa Concordia and construction of the 2022 World Cup stadiums in Qatar.

SILTBUSTER LTD Williams Building, Kingswood Gate, Monmouth Monmouthshire NP25 4EE • Tel: +44(0)1600 772 256 enquire@siltbuster.com • www.siltbuster.com

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The Wool Packaging Company Ltd – Woolcool WOOLCOOL is a highly innovative and amazingly effective, insulated packaging system comprising of clean, 100% pure sheep’s wool sealed within a recyclable, foodgrade wrap to create liners for recyclable delivery boxes for a whole range of industry sectors, primarily food, pharmaceutical and healthcare.

Founder and CEO, Angela Morris, said: “We are delighted and proud to have achieved the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation in recognition of the commitment and tenacity of the Woolcool team, and the support of suppliers and friends.

On a wider platform this award powerfully reinforces the vital role that natural materials can play in meeting the environmental challenges that face the planet both now and, in the future.”

Making credible the incredible

“The world is crying out for genuinely sustainable alternatives to manmade packaging, so the Queen’s Award has very much helped support the credibility of using a natural, superior and renewable packaging resource – sheep’s wool, especially in the demanding world of pharmaceutical and healthcare.” said Angela.

Woolcool® sustainable insulated packaging for life-saving vaccines and temperature sensitive medicines.

Reducing waste

Since 2009, when The Wool Packaging Company was founded, thousands of tonnes of nonbiodegradable plastic packaging waste have been saved from landfill by UK customers switching to Woolcool. In the last year alone, Woolcool has prevented the equivalent of 75 Olympic sized swimming pools full of polystyrene from going to landfill.

Helping save lives

Woolcool is expanding rapidly into the global pharmaceutical sector, working with Fortune 500 companies, the NHS and High Street pharmacies

alike to provide sustainable, high performance insulated packaging solutions that reduce the vaccine and medicine wastage often caused by temperature control failings in conventional plastic packaging and cold chain logistics.

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Vitabiotics Ltd VITABIOTICS, the UK’s number-one vitamin Dr Kartar Lalvani, OBE, receiving an honorary company, has been awarded The Queen’s professorship from the University of FrancheAward for Enterprise in Innovation for its Comté. This was the first time the award of Perfectil beauty vitamins range. It marks the professorship was given by the University to a fourth Queen’s Award that Vitabiotics has British scientist in the field of dermatology. received, including The Queen’s Award for Vitabiotics supports research and original Enterprise in Innovation for its Pregnacare clinical trials in collaboration with universities vitamin research in 2013. This is the first and and leading medical centres in the UK and across only time that a vitamin company has received Europe. Dr Kartar said: “Vitabiotics is immensely the award for innovation on two occasions. honoured to once again receive The Queen’s Vitabiotics has pioneered advances in Award for Innovation, in recognition of our unique nutritional healthcare products for more and highly successful Perfectil research and than 45 years and the range includes innovation. some of Britain’s leading supplement “This accolade is a testament to brands, such as Perfectil, Pregnacare, Vitabiotics and I would like to thank Wellman, Wellwoman and Menopace. all of our dedicated staff, customers, As the fastest growing major vitamin suppliers and research partners for company in the UK, Vitabiotics exports their continued support.” to more than 100 countries, and has Over the past 45 years, Vitabiotics twice received the Queen’s Award has consistently been at the Professor Philippe Humbert has for International Trade, in 2003 and cutting edge of nutritional conducted trials on Perfectil 2008. thinking, translating emerging Vitabiotics’ Perfectil is the UK’s science into effective products. number-one nutritional supplement for skin, It has established a greater range of original hair, and nails. It represents multiple innovations clinical research as background support to its in the field of cosmetic science and nutrition, formulations than any other vitamin company. underpinned by a portfolio of granted and filed patents, as well as being the first choice of beauty VITABIOTICS LTD experts and celebrities.

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1. Research conducted at the renowned international centre for dermatological and cosmetic research, University Hospital of St Jacques, Besançon, France, one of the oldest hospitals in the world, dating back to 1182. Efficacy of micronutrient supplementation [Perfectil Platinum] on skin aging and seasonal variation: a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind study.

Clinical Interventions in Aging, November 2013.

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PRESENTATIONS & CELEBRATIONS TPS Global: 2018 International Trade Employees together with TPS Global Logistics Managing Director Matt Smith who was presented with The Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade by the Viscount De L’Isle MBE Lord-Lieutenant of Kent

Tempcover Ltd: 2018 Innovation The award was presented

by HRH Prince Richard the Duke of Gloucester and the Lord Lieutenant of Somerset Annie Maw. The presentation took place during the Duke’s visit to the Galleries of Freshford, near Bath, where he also launched The Village Pump as part of Wessex Water’s 25th anniversary Watermark celebrations.

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2M HOLDINGS GROUP ........................... 34 2M House, Sutton Quays Business Park, Clifton Road, Runcorn, Cheshire, WA7 3EH Tel: +44 (0)1928 597 000 nfo@2m-holdings.com • www.2m-holdings.com 80 DAYS LTD ............................................. 34 A-SAFE HQ LTD...................................... 141

ADAPTAVIST......................... 35, IFC, OBC, Unit 2, Waterside, 44-48 Wharf Road, London, N1 7UX Tel: +44 (0)20 7976 4896 Web: www.adaptavist.com ADVANCED INSULATION.................... 140

AJ POWER LTD........................................ 141 1 Charlestown Drive, Craigavon, BT63 5GA, Northern Ireland Tel: +44 (0 )28 3836 1000 Fax: +44 (0) 28 3836 1010 info@ajpower.net www.ajpower.net Z @ajpower F AJ Power Ltd " AJ Power Ltd

ALLETT LTD ............................................. 40 Regal House, Airfield Industrial Estate, Hixon, Stafford, ST18 0PF Tel: +44 1889 271503 Fax: +44 1889 271321 sales@allett.co.uk www.allett.co.uk AMT MARKETING LTD ........................... 34

AIRBOND .................................................. 92 Unit 1, Pavilion Industrial Estate, Pontypool, NP4 6NF Tel: +44(0)1495 755661 graham@airbondsplicer.com www.airbondsplicer.com

ARTEMIDA PHARMA EUROPE LTD.... 140 Fitzwilliam Hall, Fitzwillim Place, Dublin 2, Ireland Tel/fax: +44 (0)800 6894391 info@artemidapharma.com www.artemidapharma.com F artemida-pharma-limited

ASPEN PUMPS GROUP ........................... 36 Apex Way, Hailsham, East Sussex, BN27 3WA Tel: +44 (0) 1323 848842 Fax: +44 (0) 1323 848846 www.aspenpumps.com

AVIATION NEWS LTD ....................... 38-39 Suite 1, First Floor, Parklands, 1 Lyme Drive, Trent Vale, Stoke-On-Trent, ST4 6NW Tel: +44 (0) 1782 619888 philipt@aviationnews-online.com www.aviationnews-online.com

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MRO GLOBAL APETITO ...........................................124-125 Canal Road, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, BA14 8RJ Tel: +44 (0)1225 560726 info@apetito.co.uk www.apetitio.co.uk

A320 GUIDE

AVON SPECIALTY METALS LTD .......... 37 Empire Way, Gloucester, GL2 5HY Tel: + 44 (0)1452 305666 Fax: +44 (0)1452 500164 steven.munnoch@avonspecialtymetals.com www.avonspecialtymetals.com

AEROSPACE INVESTMENT JOURNAL

CONFERENCES

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C-KORE SYSTEMS LIMITED ................... 96

BERKELEY ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS ................................. 42-43 52 Berkeley Square, London, W1J 5BT Tel: +44 (0)20 7493 6167 Fax: +44 (0)20 7495 8063 info@berkeleyeng.com www.berkeleyeng.com

BITREZ LTD ............................................... 93 Bradley Hall Trading Estate, Bradley Lane, Standish Wigan, WN6 0XQ Tel: +44(0) 1257 425512 www.bitrez.com

BETTYS & TAYLORS GROUP............... 141 BRIGADE ELECTRONICS GROUP PLC 40 Brigade House, The Mills, South Darenth, DA4 9BD Tel: +44 (0)1322 420300 hello@brigade-electronics.com www.brigade-electronics.com

CAPTEC LTD ............................................. 95 7 Whittle Avenue, Fareham, Hampshire, PO15 5SH Tel: +44 (0)1489 866066 Fax: +44 (0)1489 866088 info@uk.captec-group.com www.captec-group.com F @Captec Z @Captecgroup " @Captecgroup n @Captecgroup z @Captecgroup CARRAMORE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED ..................................................... 44 CFC UNDERWRITING LTD................... 143

BIOCATALYSTS LTD .............................. 94 Cefn Coed, Parc Nantgarw, Cardiff, CF15 7QQ Tel: +44 (0)1443 843712 BÜHLER UK LIMITED .............................. 94 20 Atlantis Avenue, London, E16 2BF Tel: +44 (0)20 7055 7777 Fax: +44 (0)20 7055 7700 ben.deefholts@buhlergroup.com www.buhlergroup.com BURLAND TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS LTD ..................................... 94 BIOSTRATA LTD ...................................... 40 Endurance House, Vision Park, Histon, Cambridge, CB24 9ZR Tel: +44 (0)1223 627120 info@biostratamarketing.com www.biostratamarketing.com www.biocatalysts.com

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CHICKENGUARD...................................... 45 Unit 2, Station Yard, Station Road, Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire, CB21 5ET Tel: 01223 855636 www.chickenguard.co.uk CHIPSIDE.................................................... 95

C BRANDAUER & CO LTD ..................... 41 235 Bridge Street West, Birmingham, B19 2YU Tel: +44 (0)121 359 2822 Fax: +44 (0)121 359 2836 sales@brandauer.co.uk www.brandauer.co.uk Z @cbrandauer

CITY BUILDING LLP............................... 142 City Building, 350 Darnick Street, Glasgow G21 4B Tel: +44 (0) 141 287 2200 Fax: +44 (0) 141 287 7100 www.citybuildingglasgow.co.uk

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CLARENDON SPECIALTY FASTENERS LTD ...................................... 45 2 Lydiard Fields, Great Western Way, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN5 8UB Tel: +44 (0)1793 439146 sales@clarendonsf.com www.clarendonsf.com

CLIMATECARE........................................ 128 112 Magdalen Road, Oxford, OX4 4AG Tel: +44 (0)1865 591000 business@climatecare.org www.climatecare.org n ClimateCare F ClimateCare Z @ClimateCare

CMS CEPCOR® ........................................... 45 1 Vulcan Way, Coalville, Leicestershire, UK, LE67 3AP Tel: +44 (0)1530 817000 sales@cmscepcor.com www.cmscepcor.com CMS WINDOW SYSTEMS..................... 141

COMBINED CHEMICAL SERVICES (UK) LTD .................................................... 46 Unit 3G4 Lyncastle Way, Appleton, Warrington, Cheshire, WA4 4ST Tel: +44 (0)1924 213620 james@combinedchemicalservices.co.uk www.combinedchemicalservices.com

CLINTON DEVON ESTATES ............... 143

CLOUDFM.................................................. 97 Cloudfm House, Charter Court, Newcomen Way, Severalls Industrial Park, Colchester, CO4 9YA Tel: +44 (0) 844 357 3560 cloudfmgroup.com

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COMPANY SHOP GROUP .............126-127 Wentworth Way, Wentworth Industrial Estate, Tankersley, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S75 3DH Tel: +44 (0)1226 747121 info@companyshopgroup.co.uk www.companyshopgroup.co.uk CONVERSION RATE EXPERTS............ 143

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CTS EUROPE ............................................. 96 14 Ordnance Court, Ackworth Road, Portsmouth, Hampshire, PO3 5RZ Tel: +44 (0) 2392 695521 sales@containment-technology.co.uk containment-technology.co.uk For Lab Bubble: lab-bubble.com sales@lab-bubble.com

CUSTOMER THERMOMETER ................ 46 1 Diplocks Yard, North Road, Brighton BN1 1YD Tel: +44 (0)20 8242 6445 hello@customerthermometer.com www.customerthermometer.com

CYDEN LTD ............................................... 46 Office Block A, Bay Studios Business Park, Fabian Way, Swansea, SA1 8QB Tel: 01792 274009 www.cyden.com

DATA CONVERSION SYSTEMS LTD ... 99 Unit 1, Buckingway Business Park, Swavesey, Cambridgeshire, CB24 4AE Tel: +44 (0)1954 233950 info@dcsltd.co.uk www.dcsltd.co.uk n @dCSonlythemusic Z @dCSonlythemusic z @dCSonlythemusic

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DIAMOND DISPERSIONS LTD .............. 47

DK ENGINEERING .................................... 48 Little Green Street Farm, Green Street, Chorleywood, Hertfordshire, WD3 6EA United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)1923 287687 Fax: +44 (0)1923 286274 jamesc@dkeng.co.uk www.dke.co.uk z @dkengineering

DOTMATICS LTD ..................................... 47 The Old Monastery, Windhill, Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, CM23 2ND Tel: +44 (0)1279 654123 Fax: +44 (0)1279 653088 info@dotmatics.com www.dotmatics.com

DURBIN PLC............................................. 144 Unit 5, Swallowfield Way, Hayes, Middlesex, UB3 1DQ Tel: +44 (0)20 8869 6500 Fax: +44 (0)20 8869 6565 info@DurbinGlobal.com www.DurbinGlobal.com

EASYSKINZ ................................................ 50 Unit 5, Salterns Lane, Fareham, Hampshire, PO16 0SU Tel: +44 (0) 7447616713 info@easyskinz.com www.easyskinz.com n @EasySkinz z @EasySkinz Z @EasySkinz " EasySkinz ELECTRONIC TEMPERATURE INSTRUMENTS LTD.............................. 144

ENTIER LTD............................................. 144 The Olive House, Endeavour Drive, Arnhall Business Park, Westhill, Aberdeenshire AB32 6UF Tel: +44 (0)1224 356 040 shawn.oconnor@entier-services.com www.entier-services.com n @entierservices Z @EntierLtd F Entier Limited

EUROMIXERS LTD.................................. 145 Landmark House, Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, SK8 7BS Tel: +44 (0)161 486 5099 sales@euromixers.co.uk www.euromixers.co.uk EVIDENCE BASED EDUCATION ........ 100

ELEMENT 1 ENGINEERING LTD T/A EVENTURI ................................................. 52

DRIVEWORKS LTD ............................ 49, 98 The Barley Store, Laskey Lane, Thelwall, Cheshire, WA4 2TF Tel: +44 (0)1925 757585 sales@driveworks.co.uk www.driveworks.co.uk

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EMBERSON GROUP LTD ........................ 51 37 Great Pulteney Street, Bath, BA2 4DA Tel: +44 (0)1225 686266 hello@embersongroup.com www.embersongroup.com z embersongroup Z @emberson_group F Emberson Group

FEED FACTORS LIMITED ...................... 99 The Gallery, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond TW9 1EH Tel: +44 (0) 208 332 1550 trading@feedfactors.com www.feedfactors.com

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FAI AUTOMOTIVE PLC......................... 146 The Chiltern Trading Estate, Grovebury Road, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, LU7 4TU Tel: +44 (0)1525 351800 enquiry@faiauto.com www.faiauto.com

FIRESAFE FIRE RATEDDUCTWORK LTD ...................................................................... 53 Knowsley Road Industrial Estate, Knowsley Road, Haslingden, Rossendale, Lancashire, BB4 4RR Tel: +44 (0)1706 227935 enquiries@firesafeductwork.co.uk www.firesafeductwork.co.uk F Firesafe Fire Rated Ductwork

FOILCO LTD .............................................. 52 Enterprise Way, Lowton St Mary’s, Warrington, Cheshire, WA3 2BP Tel: +44 (0)1942262622 hello@foilco.com www.foilco.com

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FOREGENIX ............................................. 54 8-9 High Street, Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 1AA Tel: +44 (0) 845 309 6232 info@foregenix.com sales@foregenix.com www.foregenix.com FX BLUE GROUP..................................... 145

GAMA HEALTHCARE LTD.................... 145 2 Regal Way, Watford, Hertfordshire, WD24 4YJ Tel: +44 (0) 207 9930030 Fax: +44 (0) 208 2028097 info@gamahealthcare.com www.gamahealthcare.com n Clinell Z @Clinell z @gamahealthcare

GLOBUS GROUP..................................... 145 T2 Trafford Point, Twining Road, Trafford Park, Manchester, M17 1SH Tel +44 (0)161 877 4747 Fax +44 (0)161 877 4746 sales@globus.co.uk www.globus.co.uk @globusgloves globus-ltd

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GUILDHAWK ............................................ 54 13-14 King Street, London EC2V 8EA Tel: 0207 397 2770 info@guildhawk.com www.guildhawk.com

HARRISON SPINKS................................. 129 The Innovation Centre, Westland Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS11 5SB Tel: +44 (0)113 205 5200 www.harrisonspinks.co.uk HAYBURY .................................................. 57

HCS............................................................ 147 Unit V2, Viewfield Industrial Estate, Glenrothes KY6 2QX Tel: +44 (0)1592 770786 sales@hcscsl.com www.hcs-control-systems.com HMR LTD .................................................... 55

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HOME HEALTH UK LTD ......................... 57 Unit A, Greatham Road Industrial Estate, Bushey, Hertfordshire, WD23 2NZ Tel: +44 (0)1923 711511 info@homehealth-uk.com www.homehealth-uk.com HONEYCOMB PROJECT MANAGEMENT LTD.............................. 148

HOTHOUSE PARTNERSHIPS LTD...... 147 Atlas Mill, Atlas Mill Road, Brighouse HD6 1ES Tel: +44 (0)1484 401129 info@hot-h.co.uk www.hot-h.co.uk z @stmoriz n @St.Moriz.Tan Z @stmoriz " @stmorizselftan

IDEAL BOILERS LIMITED ...24, 56, 84, 101 Ideal Boilers, National Avenue, Hull, East Yorkshire, HU5 4JB Tel: +44 (0)1482 492251 enquiries@idealboilers.com www.idealboilers.com

INCREMENTAL SOLUTIONS LTD ...... 102 Innovation Centre, Innovation Way, York Science Park, York, YO10 5DG Tel: +44 (0)1904 435100 contact@incrementalsolutions.co.uk www.incrementalsolutions.co.uk

JTA.............................................................. 148 A7/A8 Speldhurst Business Park, Langton Road, Speldhurst, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN3 0AQ Tel: +44 (0)1892 860860 info@jtassocs.com www.jtassocs.com Z @Team_JTA

KIRK PROCESS SOLUTIONS LIMITED .58 161 Park Close, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, KT12 1EW Tel: +44 (0)1932 250300 info@kirkprocess.com www.kirkprocess.com n KIRK Process Solutions Z @kirkprocess F KIRK Process Solutions

iNCOGNITO®........................................... 149 KOHLER MIRA LTD ................................ 102

HT2 LABS ................................................. 100

HT2 LABS HUNTLEIGH ............................................ 100 35 Portmanmoor Road, Cardiff, CF24 5HN Tel: +44 (0)29 2048 5885 sales@huntleigh-diagnostics.co.uk www.huntleigh-healthcare.com @Huntleighdiag

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JMDA DESIGN ........................................... 57 Units 1 & 3, Common Barns, Hill Furze, Pershore, Worcestershire, WR10 2NU Tel: 01386 426100 design@jmdadesign.com www.jmdadesign.com z @jmda_design Z @JMDADesign n @JMDAproductdesign F JMDA Design

LANGUAGE INSIGHT LTD .................... 58 Head office, 1 The Crossroads Business Park, Freckleton Street,Preston, Lancashire PR4 2SH Tel: +44(0)1772 252333 info@languageinsight.com www.languageinsight.com F Language Insight Z @languageinsight

JO BIRD & COMPANY LTD.................... 148

LASER WIRE SOLUTIONS .................... 102

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LEVERTON LITHIUM ............................... 59 Units 13-15 Sherrington Way, Lister Road Industrial Estate, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG22 4DQ Tel: +44 (0) 1256 810393 sales@levertonlithium.com www.levertonlithium.com LILY’S KITCHEN...................................... 150 LINTBELLS LTD....................................... 150 LITTLEPOD LTD...................................... 151 MANOR HOUSE DEVELOPMENT TRUST .................................................................... 151

MANVERS ENGINEERING LTD............ 152 Unit 7 Spring Hill Road, Park Springs, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S72 7PD Tel: 01226 719444 sales@manvers-engineering.co.uk www.plant-nappy.co.uk www.manvers-engineering.co.uk n @manversengineering Z @manverseng F Manvers Engineering Ltd

MARKES INTERNATIONAL LTD 58, 104 Gwaun Elai Medi-Science Campus, Llantrisant, RCT, CF72 8XL Tel: +44 (0)1443 230935 enquiries@markes.com www.markes.com

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MEECH INTERNATIONAL ..................... 61 2 Network Point, Range Road, Witney, OX29 0YN Tel: +44 (0)1993 706700 Fax: +44 (0)1993 776977 sales@meech.com www.meech.com

METSTOK LTD .......................................... 61 Moreton Park House, Moreton Park, Whalley, Lancashire, BB7 9DW Tel : + 44 (0) 1200 407100 www.metstok.com john.vernon@metstok.com

melba swintex MELBA PRODUCTS LIMITED ................ 60 Derby Works, Manchester Road, Bury, BL9 9NX Tel: 0161 761 4933 Fax: 0161 797 1146 paul.harrison@melbaswintex.co.uk www.melbaswintex.com

METRO SECURITY (GB) PLC ............... 103 Unit 5, Trade City, Ashton Road, Romford, Essex, RM3 8UJ Tel: +44 (0)1708 377477 info@metrosecurity.co.uk www.metrosecurity.co.uk n Metro-Security-GB-Plc z @MetrosecurityUK Z @ MetrosecurityUK " MetroSecurityPLC

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MINESOFT LTD....................................... 151 Boston House, Little Green, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, TW9 1QE Tel: +44 (0) 208 404 0651 Fax: +44 (0) 208 404 0681 info@minesoft.com www.minesoft.com Z @Minesoftnews F Minesoft Ltd

MIRICAL EMBLEMS LTD ......................... 63 The EPIcentre, Mansfield Road, Blidworth, Nottinghamshire, NG21 0LR Tel: +44 (0)1623 490114 sales@mirical-emblems.com www.mirical-emblems.com n @miricalemblems F MiRiCal Emblems Limited

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MRT CASTINGS LTD.............................. 153 South Way, Walworth Business Park, Andover, Hampshire, SP10 5JT, UK Tel: +44 (0)1264 324021 Fax: +44 (0)1264 333773 www.mrt-castings.co.uk n MRT Castings Ltd Z @MRTcastings F MRT Castings Ltd

NATGRAPH LTD ...................................... 63 Dabell Avenue, Blenheim Industrial Estate, Nottingham, NG6 8WA • Tel: +44 (0)115 979 5800 info@natgraph.co.uk • natgraph.co.uk

OE ELECTRICS LIMITED ........................ 64 OE House, Thomas Maddison Lane, Calder Park, Wakefield, WF4 3GH Tel: +44 (0)1924 367255 Fax: +44 (0)1924 290652 sales@oeelectrics.co.uk

ORBITAL EDUCATION .......................... 65 Landmark House, Station Road, Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, SK8 7BS Tel: +44 (0) 161 485 7091 info@orbital.education www.orbitaled.com OPTOS PLC ............................................ 105

NAUGHTONE ........................................... 62 ORIGINAL PRODUCTS ........................... 65

NIFTYLIFT ......................................... 63, 104 Chalkdell Drive, Shenley Wood, Milton Keynes, MK5 6GF Tel: +44 (0)1908 223456 Fax: +44 (0)1908 312733 sales@niftylift.com www.niftylift.com

OXFORD BIODYNAMICS PLC ............. 104 26 Beaumont Street, Oxford, OX1 2NP Tel: +44 (0)1865 518910 Fax: +44 (0)1865 511418 info@oxfordbiodynamics.com www.oxfordbiodynamics.com

PANEL GRAPHIC LIMITED ..................... 65 Loddon Business Park, Loddon, Norwich, NR14 6JD Tel: +44(0)1508 528028 info@displaywindows.com www.displaywindows.com z @panelgraphic n @panelgraphic Z @panel_graphic " @panelgraphic F @panel-graphic-ltd

PEXA LTD .................................................. 67 Burrwood Way, Holywell Green, West Yorkshire, HX4 9BH Tel: +44 (0)1422 314400 info@pexa.com www.pexa.com

PHASTAR ................................................... 67 Unit 2, 2A Bollo Lane, London, W4 5LE Tel: +44 (0)207 183 7062 info@phastar.com www.phastar.com PICKERING INTERFACES ....................... 66

OXFORD ROYALE ACADEMY ............... 65 PRECISION DIPPINGS MANUFACTURING ................................. 67

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PREMIER COATINGS LTD..................... 154 Headcorn Road , Smarden, Ashford , TN27 8PJ Tel: +44 (0) 1233 770 663 Fax: +44 (0)1233 770 633 enquiries@premiercoatings.com www.premiercoatings.com premier-coatings-limited

RED ARCH MANUFACTURING LTD... 153 March House, Daventry, Northamptonshire NN11 4NR Tel: +44 (0)1327 871255 info@redarcheng.co.uk www.redarcheng.co.uk RA Logo 2016.jpg Z @redarcheng

ROTECH SWINDON LTD ....................... 72 Highworth, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN6 7NA Tel: +44 (0)1793 764700 sales@rotechkeg.com www.rotechkeg.co.uk RTR GMBH & CO. KG .............................. 69

PRIMEVIGILANCE LTD – PART OF ERGOMED GROUP .................................. 67 The Surrey Research Park, 1 Occam Court, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7HJ Tel: +44 (0)1483 307920 Fax: +44 (0)1483 307929 info@primevigilance.com www.primevigilance.com n @PrimeVigilance: F PrimeVigilance Ltd

REPL GROUP ........................................70-71 Brook House, Birmingham Road, Henley-in-Arden,B95 5QR Tel: +44 (0) 808 200 7375 marketing@replgroup.com www.replgroup.com REX LONDON ........................................... 68

SBG SPORTS SOFTWARE LTD ........... 108 22 Upper Ground, London, SE1 9PD Tel: +44 (0)20 3695 6182 contact@sbgsportssoftware.com www.sbgsportssoftware.com

Q5 ................................................................ 68 SCIBITE LTD ............................................. 72

QUALASEPT PHARMAXO HOLDINGS LIMITED ......................106-107 3 Corsham Science Park, Park Lane, Corsham, Wiltshire, SN13 9FU Tel: +44 (0)1225 811131 Email: info@bathasu.com Web: www.bathasu.com

ROBERTS RECYCLING LTD ................... 72 4 Brickfields, Huyton, Merseyside, L36 6HY Tel: +44 (0)151 353 9349 simon@robertsrecycling.co.uk www.robertsrecycling.co.uk

SCICHART LTD ...................................... 110 16 Beaufort Court, Admirals Way, London, E14 9XL sales@scichart.com www.scichart.com SEMANTICS 21 LTD ............................... 110

RECYCLING LIVES.................................. 136

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SEMMCO LTD ........................................... 76 9 Kestrel Way, Woking, Surrey, GU21 3BA, UK Tel: +44 (0)1483 757200 Fax: +44 (0)1483 740795 sales@semmco.com www.semmco.com SHNUGGLE ............................................... 72

ST PIERRE GROUPE ........................ 44, IBC St Pierre Groupe, South Court, Sharston Road, Manchester, M22 4BB Tel: +44 (0)161 946 135 Fax: +44 (0)161 946 8700 enquiries@stpierregroupe.com www.stpierregroupe.com

SYSTEMS INTERFACE LIMITED ............ 76 Unit 71.5 Dunsfold Park, Stovolds Hill, Cranleigh, Surrey, GU6 8TB Tel: +44 (0)1483 267066 Fax: +44 (0)1483 267044 sales@systemsinterface.com www.systemsinterface.com

STANHOPE-SETA LTD ......................... 111 London Street, Chertsey, Surrey, KT16 8AP Tel: +44 (0)1932 564391 Fax: +44 (0)1932 568363 sales@stanhope-seta.co.uk www.stanhope-seta.co.uk

TANGERINE LIMITED ............................ 77 Unit 9, Blue Lion Place, 237 Long Lane, London, SE1 4PU Tel: +44(0) 207 357 0966 mail@tangerine.net www.tangerine.net

SILTBUSTER LTD.................................... 156 SPECIALIST INSIGHT LIMITED ............. 75 SPECTRA GROUP (UK) LTD ................ 111 SPEECHMATICS ..................................... 113

TELEDYNE DEFENCE & SPACE (A DIVISION OF TELEDYNE LTD) ....... 76

SNAP-ON ........................................... 73, 109 www.snapon.co.uk

TENMAT LIMITED .................................. 114 STERLING PHARMA SOLUTIONS ........ 74 Dudley Lane, Cramlington, NE23 7QG Tel: +44 (0)191 250 0471 enquiries@sterlingpsl.com www.sterlingpharmasolutions.com

ST AUSTELL BREWERY......................... 154 63 Trevarthian Road, St Austell PL25 4BY Tel: 01726 74444 • Fax: 01726 68965 info@staustellbrewery.co.uk www.staustellbrewery.co.uk n @staustellbrewery Z @staustellbrew

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SYGNATURE DISCOVERY..................... 155 Biocity, Pennyfoot Street, Nottingham, NG1 1GR, UK Tel: +44 (0) 115 941 5401 www.sygnaturediscovery.com busdev@sygnaturediscovery.com Z @SygnatureDiscov F sygnature-discovery

THE LAWTON TUBE COMPANY LTD .78 Torrington Avenue, Coventry, West Midlands, CV4 9AB Tel: 024 7646 6203 sales@lawtontubes.co.uk www.lawtontubes.co.uk THE SHADOW ROBOT COMPANY ... 113

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THE TALL GROUP OF COMPANIES... 155 Pembroke Court, Manor Park, Runcorn, C heshire, WA7 1TJ Tel: +44(0)1928 579 200 Fax: +44(0)1928 579 294 enquiries@tallgroup.co.uk www.tallgroup.co.uk n @TheTALLGroupofCompanies F the-tall-group-of-companies Z @TheTALLGroup

THORLUX LIGHTING ........................... 113 Merse Road, North Moons Moat, Redditch, Worcestershire, B98 9HH Tel: +44 (0)1527 583200 Fax: +44 (0)1527 584177 thorlux@thorlux.co.uk www.thorlux.com

TRUNET (UK) LTD ................................. 113 Ivanhoe Business Park, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, LE65 2UZ Tel: +44 (0)1530 411275 info@trunet-group.com www.trunet-group.com

TIER 1......................................................... 137

THEWHISKYBARREL.COM .................... 78

THE WOOL PACKAGING COMPANY LTD...................................... 156 Units 11-12 Beacon Road, Walton Industrial Estate, Stone, Staffordshire ST15 0NN Tel: +44 (0)1785 262030 • sales@woolcool.com www.woolcool.com n @WeAreWoolcool Z @WeAreWoolcool z @wearewoolcool

THE INTELLIGENT TISSUE GROUP .... 78 1.2, Fleming Pavilion, Todd Campus, West of Scotland Science Park, Glasgow G20 0XA Tel: +44 (0) 141 299 0055 media@tissue-solutions.com www.tissue-solutions.com

ULTIMOTIVE LTD .................................... 79 4 Altbarn Close, Severalls Business Park, Colchester CO4 9HY Tel: +44(0) 1206 855232 andy@ultimotive.com www.ultimotive.com

TPS GLOBAL LOGISTICS LTD............. 155

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TRACE2O ................................................... 78

THOMPSON RECYCLING AND LANDFILL LIMITED............................... 116 Birch Road, Dumbarton, G82 2RN Tel: +44 (0)1389 762271 Fax: +44 (0)1389 742217 andrew@thompsonquarries.co.uk www.thompsonquarries.co.uk/landfill

TRATOS LTD........................................... 115 Randles Road, Knowsley Business Park, Knowsley, L34 9HX Tel: +44 151 548 3888 zilah.skerritt@tratosgroup.com www.tratosgroup.com

UNIVERSAL SMART CARDS .................. 79 Universal Smart Cards, Unit 5, Rising Bridge Business & Enterprise Village, Blackburn Road, Accrington, Lancashire, BB5 2AL Tel: +44 (0)333 700 0078 enquiries@usmartcards.com www.usmartcards.com VALID INSIGHT ........................................ 80

TRINITY FENCING CIC.......................... 135

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VEOLIA NUCLEAR SOLUTIONS (UK) LTD..................................................... 81 HQ Building, Harwell Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0GD Tel: +44 (0)1235 522119 VNS-UKsales@veolia.com www.nuclearsolutions.veolia.com

WREN LABORATORIES LTD................. 82 21-22 Mayfield Avenue Industrial Park, Andover, SP11 8HU Tel: +44 (0)1264 339 770 international@wrenlabs.com n OptiBac Probiotics z @optibac Z @OptiBac

VERIFILE ..................................................... 83 VITABIOTICS LTD.................................. 157

WARWICK MUSIC GROUP................... 117 The Hayloft, Rock Farm Business Centre, Tamworth, B79 0LA Tel: +44 (0)24 7671 2081 steven@warwickmusic.com www.warwickmusicgroup.com and www.pbone.co.uk n @pBoneOfficial Z @pBoneOfficial z pBoneOfficial " pBoneUK

YELO LIMITED .......................................... 83 Trooperslane Industrial Estate, 20 Meadowbank Road, Co Antrim, BT38 8YF Tel: +44 (0)28 9335 7300 info@yelo.co.uk www.yelo.co.uk

ZIP-CLIP LTD ............................................ 83

WILLMOTT DIXON................................ 130

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