Queen's Awards for Enterprise
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The Queen's Awards for Enterprise is an awards programme for British businesses and other organizations who excel at international trade, innovation or sustainable development. They are the highest official UK awards for British businesses. The scheme was first named The Queen's Award to Industry, and individual categories have been known in the past as The Queen's Awards for Export, Export Achievement, Technology, Technological Achievement and Environmental Achievement. The scheme also includes an award for individuals, The Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion.
To be awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise in the category of international trade, a company must show a substantial and sustained increase in export earnings over three consecutive 12-month periods, to a level which is outstanding for the products and services concerned, and for the size of the organisation. Different requirements are set for the award in the categories of innovation and sustainable development. Awards are made on the advice of the Prime Minister after examination of applications by an Advisory Committee composed of leading individuals from industry, commerce, trade unions and government. The awards are conferred by the reigning British monarch on their birthday every year. For Elizabeth II this is April 21.
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[edit] History
The Queen's Award to Industry, the scheme's original title, was instituted by Royal Warrant in 1966, and it was only offered to organizations. The recommendations of a review in 1975 led to the scheme becoming The Queen's Awards for Export and Technology, with separate awards for outstanding achievement in each of the two fields. The Queen's Award for Environmental Achievement was added in 1992. Following a review in 1999, chaired by Charles, Prince of Wales, the three separate Awards were replaced and are now known generically as The Queen's Awards for Enterprise with three broad-based categories for organizations: International Trade, Innovation and Sustainable Development. In 2005, the individual award, The Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion (QAEP) was added to the programme.[1]
[edit] Recipients
Past recipients include:
- Allied Distillers
- Alumet (2004, Queen's Awards for Enterprise: Innovation)
- BBC (1974, Queen's Award for Enterprise, for Sound-in-Syncs)
- British Cellophane (1974, Queen's Award to Industry)
- Buro Happold (twice)
- Capital Valves (Queen's Awards for Enterprise: International Trade)
- CEPMLP, University of Dundee - For International Trade, 2004.
- Dando Drilling International (Queen's Awards for Enterprise: International Trade 2000, 2003)
- DSG Internation Plc (Queen's Awards for Enterprise: International Trade 2006)
- Dynamic Cassette International (Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation 2004)
- Dupont Teijin Films (Queen's Awards for Enterprise: Innovation 2003)
- Extec Screens & Crushers Ltd (Queen's Awards for Enterprise: International Trade 2005) Extec's Website
- Intergas (special gases) (1997)
- ICL (for Technology - Mainframes 1985, 1988, 1993; Retail 1990. For Export - PCs 1991; Mid-Range Systems 1993)
- JCB (Queen's Awards for Innovation and Technology - Heavy Equipment) [1]
- JobServe (2001, Queen's Awards for Enterprise: Innovation - Online recruitment) JobServe's Website
- Kinloch Anderson (kiltmaker) (1979)
- Mott MacDonald Limited (Queen's Awards for Enterprise: International Trade 2004) Mott MacDonald Site
- Peak Scientific Instruments, Glasgow - For International Trade, 2004.
- Pelam Foods Limited (Queen's Awards for Enterprise: International Trade 2005) Pelam Foods Site
- Scot Young Research (Cleaning tools manufacturer) Scot Young Research
- Sibelius Software (Sibelius notation software awarded for innovation) (2005)
- Sophos (computer security) (2002, 2004)
- Spectrum Technologies Plc (Laser wire marking systems) (The Queen's Awards for Enterprise: International Trade 1995, 2000, 2006) See Spectrum Technologies Homepage
- StatPro Group (Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2006) See StatPro.com
- Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (Queen's Award for Enterprise in Innovation, 2005, SSTL press release, Queen's Award for Technology, 1998, SSTL press release)
- TEREX Pegson (Queen's Awards for Enterprise: International Trade 2005) TEREX Pegson's Website
- Timsons Limited - Book Printing Machine Manufacturer. Queen's Awards for Enterprise: Innovation 2006, International Trade (Export) 2002, 1992
- Traidcraft (Fair Trade) (2006) Traidcraft's Website
- UltraVision CLPL (Queen's Awards for Enterprise: Innovation 2006) UltraVision CLPLs website
- University of Essex (2006)
- Wafer Technology (advanced semiconductor wafers) (1997)
- Watkiss Automation (design and manufacture of collating and print finishing equipment) (1994)
- William Grant & Sons (1974)
- Woking Borough Council (2001) for sustainable community energy systems [2]
- Yeo Valley Organic (2006) for sustainable development
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.queensawards.org.uk/individual/Home.html retrieved on Oct 30, 2007.
