We’re appropriately celebrating our new website with a celebration blog about outstanding Yorkshire success in the country’s most prestigious business awards.
Regarded as the UK’s top accolade for businesses and individuals, The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise – awarded on the Queen’s birthday – are only given for the highest levels of excellence demonstrated in each category. Once again Yorkshire is celebrating a long list of winners; in total the region won 15 awards – ten for International Trade, three for Innovation and one each for Sustainable Development and Enterprise Promotion.
The Yorkshire awards for international trade included:
- Sheffield based bra designer Panache Lingerie,
- Bradford based mining equipment maker Osborn Metals,
- Keighley based dental supplier DB Orthodontics,
- Shipley based IT service company Europlus Direct,
- Rotherham based metal supplier London & Scandinavian Metallurgical Co,
- Grimsby based oil and gas hose manufacturer Shand Engineering,
- York based spare parts maker Sheppee International,
- Wakefield based clothing designer The Wakefield Shirt Group, and
- Todmorden based mining equipment manufacturer Weir Minerals Europe.
The University of Huddersfield won an award for International Trade, while Professor Elizabeth Towns-Andrews, the University’s director of research and enterprise, also won an award for Enterprise Promotion.
Family owned luxury bed manufacturer, Harrison Spinks, celebrated winning two awards in the Innovation and Sustainable Development categories. The Leeds-based business is the first UK bed manufacturer to win two awards in the same year.
Stage One Creative Services based in Tockwith, the company behind the Olympic Cauldron in London 2012, was a winner in the Innovation category, as was Hull based boiler maker Ideal Heating.
Wire lubricants company Metalube, is our honorary Yorkshire Winner – although it is based in Manchester Metalube is run by three Yorkshire entrepreneurs, winning an award for International Trade.
A royal representative visited each of the award winners, presenting them with a crystal bowl. They are also invited to attend a celebratory reception at Buckingham Palace.
Cheers and a sparkling toast to the winners!