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The Queen's Awards for Enterprise
The Queen's Awards for Enterprise
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Description	Business innovation and performance.
Country	United Kingdom
Presented by	The Queen, on the advice of the Prime Minister.
First awarded	1966
Website	http://www.queensawards.org.uk/business/business.html

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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 established as The Queen's Award to Industry by a royal warrant of 30 November 1965, 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 his or her birthday every year. For Her Majesty Elizabeth II this is 21 April.

History

The Queen's Award to Industry, the scheme's original title, was instituted by Royal Warrant in 1965, and first awarded 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.^[1] 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.^[2]

In 1990 a set of commemorative stamps featuring the Queens Awards for Enterprise was issued by the Post Office.

Benefits

Winners are allowed to use the Queen's Award emblem in advertising, marketing and on packaging for a period of five years. Winners also attend a garden party in July at Buckingham Palace, and are visited during the year by a royal representative to present the physical award, a crystal chalice and scroll.

Recipients

List of winners of last five years are available at Queen's Awards for Enterprise Magazine

Organisations - totals

The total number of winners in each class each year are shown below.^[3]

Year	International Trade (Export)	Innovation (Technology)	Export and Technology (Combined)	Sustainable Development (Environmental Achievement)	Total awards
2011	103	44		10	157
2010	95	38		10	143
2009	135	49		10	194
2008	85	42		12	139
2007	71	40		8	119
2006	90	48		7	145
2005	88	41		8	137
2004	66	39		7	112
2003	62	51		10	123
2002	85	37		9	131
2001	76	42		15	133
2000	77	32		7	116
1999	82	14		5	101
1998	115	14		4	133
1997	110	16		8	134
1996	107	16		6	129
1995	140	17		6	163
1994	139	18		8	165
1993	118	25		12	155
1992	127	38			165
1991	118	40			158
1990	126	49			175
1989	116	40			156
1988	102	43			145
1987	120	34			154
1986	114	27			141
1985	90	29			119
1984	88	23			111
1983	90	20			110
1982	91	19			110
1981	92	17			109
1980	87	17			104
1979	102	19			121
1978	107	17			124
1977	106	19			125
1976	95	20			115
1975	76	17	2		95
1974	59	19	-		78
1973	66	15	2		83
1972	72	17	1		90
1971	93	13	4		110
1970	74	25	5		104
1969	69	24	6		99
1968	60	17	8		85
1967	48	28	9		85
1966	86	11	18		115
TOTAL	4,318	1,280	55	162	5,815

Recipients - individuals

The Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion is awarded to individuals.

Selected pre-2001 recipients

Past recipients: Queen's Award for Enterprise
Company	Industry	Queen's Award for Enterprise	Year(s)
BBC^[4]		Technological Achievement	1969,^[5] 1974,^[6] 1983,^[7] 1987,^[8] 1992,^[9] 1998,^[10] 2001^[11]
Boots UK		Technical Achievement	1987
British Cellophane		Queen's Award to Industry	1974
Brompton Bicycle		Export Achievement	1995 ^[12]
Central Independent Television		Queen's Award to Export	1987 and 1989^[13]
Dando Drilling International		International Trade (twice)	2000, 2003
Dr. Solomon's Antivirus Toolkit	Computer software	Technological Achievement	1993
GEC Computers^[14]	Computer manufacturer	Innovation	1979
ICL^[15]	Computers	Technology / Export	1985, 1988, 1990, 1993 / 1991, 1993
Kinloch Anderson	Kilt maker	Queen's Award to Industry	1979
Spectrum Technologies Plc^[16]	Laser wire marking systems	International Trade (thrice)	1995, 2000, 2006
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd		Innovation (Technology)	1998,^[17] 2005^[18]
Synon	Software	Export & Technology	1991
The University of Hull	Liquid Crystals	Innovation (Technological Achievement)
T. P. O'Sullivan and Partners	Civil engineers	Export Achievement	1981
Wafer Technology	Semiconductor wafers	^{[clarification needed]}	1997
Watkiss Automation	Collating and print finishing equipment	International Trade (Export) twice	1994 / 2010
White and Company	Tredair Footwear	International Trade (Export)	1990
William Grant & Sons		Queen's Award to Industry	1974
Zed Instruments^[19]	Tunnelling and Laser engraving	Technological Achievement Export Achievement Export Achievement	1986 1987 1991

References

^ You must specify issue= when using {{London Gazette}}.
^ http://www.queensawards.org.uk/individual/Home.html retrieved on 30 October 2007.
^ Business Link - Queen's Awards for Enterprise: Background_Note Annex B
^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/awards/awards-queens.shtml retrieved 2010-01-20.
^ For Field Store Standards Converter - 1969
^ For Sound-in-Syncs - 1974
^ For Teletext - 1983
^ For LF Radio Teleswitching - 1987
^ For NICAM 728 - 1992
^ For Motion Compensated TV Standards Converter - 1998
^ For DVB-T demodulator - 2001
^ "Brompton Bicycle " History". Retrieved 27 May 2008.
^ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/philip-jones-television-executive-who-sold-inspector-morse-to-the-world-1739868.html
^ For GEC 4000 series Nucleus "GEC Computers wins Queens Award" (PDF). 21 April 1979. Retrieved 15 January 2011.
^ For Technology - Mainframes 1985, 1988, 1993; Retail 1990. For Export - PCs 1991; Mid-Range Systems 1993
^ Spectrum Technologies Homepage
^ SSTL press release 1998
^ SSTL press release 2005
^ Zed Instruments

External links

[1] You must specify issue= when using {{London Gazette}}.

[2] ttp://www.queensawards.org.uk/individual/Home.html retrieved on 30 October 2007.

[3] Business Link - Queen's Awards for Enterprise: Background_Note Annex B

[4] ttp://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/awards/awards-queens.shtml retrieved 2010-01-20.

[5] For Field Store Standards Converter - 1969

[6] For Sound-in-Syncs - 1974

[7] For Teletext - 1983

[8] For LF Radio Teleswitching - 1987

[9] For NICAM 728 - 1992

[10] For Motion Compensated TV Standards Converter - 1998

[11] For DVB-T demodulator - 2001

[12] "Brompton Bicycle " History". Retrieved 27 May 2008.

[13] ttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/philip-jones-television-executive-who-sold-inspector-morse-to-the-world-1739868.html

[14] For GEC 4000 series Nucleus "GEC Computers wins Queens Award" (PDF). 21 April 1979. Retrieved 15 January 2011.

[15] For Technology - Mainframes 1985, 1988, 1993; Retail 1990. For Export - PCs 1991; Mid-Range Systems 1993

[16] Spectrum Technologies Homepage

[17] SSTL press release 1998

[18] SSTL press release 2005

[19] Zed Instruments

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 '''The Queen's Awards for Enterprise''' is an awards programme for [[United Kingdom|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 established as '''The Queen's Award to Industry''' by a [[royal warrant]] of 30 November 1965, 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 monarchy|British monarch]] on his or her birthday every year. For Her Majesty [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Elizabeth II]] this is 21 April.
+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 monarchy|British monarch]] on his or her birthday every year. For Her Majesty [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Elizabeth II]] this is 21 April.
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