In strict confidence Until 21 April 2018 The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise: 2018 Winners by Region • INNOVATION • INTERNATIONAL TRADE • PROMOTING OPPORTUNITY • SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT NOT FOR PUBLICATION OR BROADCAST BEFORE 00.01 HOURS BST ON FRIDAY 21 APRIL 2018 PLEASE ENSURE THAT THERE IS NO PUBLICITY BEFORE THIS DEADLINE. RECIPIENTS OF THIS SUPPLEMENT SHOULD APPROACH ONLY THE HEAD OR NOMINATED CONTACT OF ANY BUSI- NESS AWARD WINNER FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS. INITIAL CON- TACTS WITH OTHERS IN THE ORGANISATION MUST BE AVOIDED, AS THEY WILL NOT BE PRIVY TO THE EMBARGOED MATERIAL. The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise 2018 NOT FOR PUBLICATION OR BROADCAST BEFORE 00.01 HOURS BST ON FRIDAY 21 APRIL 2018 PLEASE ENSURE THAT THERE IS NO PUBLICITY BEFORE THIS DEADLINE. RECIPIENTS OF THIS SUPPLEMENT SHOULD APPROACH ONLY THE HEAD OR NOMINATED CONTACT OF ANY BUSINESS AWARD WINNER FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS. INITIAL CONTACTS WITH OTHERS IN THE ORGANISATION MUST BE AVOIDED, AS THEY WILL NOT BE PRIVY TO THE EMBARGOED MATERIAL. The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are the most prestig- Promoting Opportunity (through social mobility) ious awards for UK businesses, designed to recognise and This category recognises businesses and organisations encourage outstanding achievements in the fields of Inno- that are providing high quality social mobility initiatives and vation, International Trade, Sustainable Development and programmes that specifically reach out and support people Promoting Opportunity (through social mobility). The from disadvantaged backgrounds, in order to inspire and Queen’s Awards scheme was instituted by Royal Warrant guide the best talent into their organisation and beyond. in 1965 and the first Awards were made in 1966. The programmes include work experience, careers advice This year, 230 UK businesses have been recognised for or mentoring for young people; offering non-graduate their contribution to international trade, innovation, routes such as traineeships or changing recruitment sustainable development and promoting opportunity practices; and, giving equal support and progression (through social mobility). opportunities to all employees. 152 for International Trade; Sustainable Development 72 for Innovation; Winners in this category demonstrate commercially 8 for Sustainable Development; and successful sustainable development practices. Sustainable 6 for Promoting Opportunity (through social mobility). development achievements are assessed for: invention, design or production of goods; performance of services; Eight of these companies are double Award winners. They marketing and distribution; after-sale support of goods or are: services; or, management of resources or relationships Lumishore Ltd, Divelements Ltd trading as 'SkyDemon', with people and other organisations. Resilience Communications Limited, Solentim Ltd, Image Processing Techniques Ltd trading as ‘Omnitek’, Telensa Ltd, DNAFit Life Sciences Ltd trading as DNAFit Ltd and Harrison Spinks - all winning Awards for International Trade and Innovation. Innovation Innovation achievements are assessed for: invention, design or production of goods; performance of services; marketing and distribution; or, after-sale support of goods or services, that have realised outstanding commercial success over 2 years or continuous commercial success over 5 years. International Trade Winners have demonstrated that their business has achieved substantial growth in overseas earning and in NOTES: commercial success (for their business size and sector) The Queen’s Awards Office accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of the details contained herein. through either outstanding achievement over 3 years or The summaries have been approved by the respective winners and are provided merely as a guide to assist the media. continuous achievement over 6 years. ‘Employees’ refers to the number of staff in the UK. Some organisations also have employees overseas. 2 Awards & Recipients Region / Category Region Number of Awards Page East 24 Innovation 5 6 International Trade 18 9 Promoting Opportunity 1 18 East Midlands 8 Innovation 2 19 International Trade 6 20 London 52 Innovation 14 23 International Trade 36 30 Promoting Opportunity 1 48 Sustainable Development 1 49 North East 3 Innovation 1 50 International Trade 1 51 Promoting Opportunity 1 52 North West 22 Innovation 5 53 International Trade 15 56 Sustainable Development 2 64 Northern Ireland 3 Innovation 1 65 International Trade 2 66 Scotland 10 Innovation 4 67 International Trade 5 69 Sustainable Development 1 72 3 Awards & Recipients continued Region / Category Region Number of Awards Page South East 33 Innovation 10 73 International Trade 23 78 South West 30 Innovation 11 90 International Trade 15 96 Promoting Opportunity 1 103 Sustainable Development 4 104 Wales 12 Innovation 5 106 International Trade 7 109 West Midlands 15 Innovation 4 113 International Trade 10 115 Promoting Opportunity 1 120 Yorkshire & The Humber 26 Innovation 10 121 International Trade 15 126 Promoting Opportunity 1 134 4 Awards & Recipients Region / Category 5 East Innovation Endomagnetics Ltd trading as Endomag The Jeffreys Building, Website: www.endomag.com St John's Innovation Park Employees: 13 Cowley Road Immediate Parent: N/A Cambridge CEO: Dr Eric Mayes CB4 0WS Press Contact: Lorna Cuddon Tel: 07811 996942 Email: [email protected] Endomagnetics Ltd (Endomag) of Cambridge is developing a clinical platform that uses safe magnetic fields to power diagnostic and therapeutic devices, avoiding the safety, workflow and availability concerns of ionising radiation. The innovation for which the company has been given an Award is a minimally invasive surgical guidance system. A lymph node identifying magnetic tracer known as Sienna, and a metallic tumour marker Magseed, can be located accurately by a surgeon in theatre with a handheld detector called Sentimag. This removes the need for radioactive isotopes during procedures, and in the case of breast lumpectomy wire localisation, thereby improving workflow, lowering costs and enhancing patient comfort and quality of care. Designed originally for the management of breast cancer, the platform has since extended to include prostate, melanoma, head and neck, and gynaecological cancers. With 18 granted patents and 35 pending the company is a prolific innovator. Featurespace 3rd Floor Website: www.featurespace.co.uk Broers Building Employees: 60 Hauser Forum Immediate Parent: N/A 21 JJ Thomson Avenue Chairman: Mrs Martina King Cambridge Press Contact: Elizabeth Ellerbee CB3 0FA Tel: 01706 505 5255 Email: [email protected] Adaptive Behavioural Analytics is the specialism of Cambridge based Featurespace. Their Queen's Award for Innovation has been awarded for their application of this specialism in developing an innovative machine learning fraud management software platform called ARIC. It was first identified as a solution as the online gaming industry was constantly under attack by fraudsters. Traditional methods of combatting these attacks were not proving effective. ARIC is the world's first software platform to identify fraud attacks as they occur, whilst at the same time reducing the number of genuine customers who are incorrectly blocked. The system learns individual customer's digital behaviours, accurately predicts their ongoing interactions, and spots anomalous behaviours. As it does not rely upon knowledge of past fraud attacks, and works in real time to prevent fraud, it is highly effective. ARIC has now been adopted in financial services. One High Street bank estimates annual revenue savings of £11.5m since its introduction. 6 East Innovation iCandy World Limited Montgomery Way Website: www.icandyworld.com Biggleswade Employees: 58 Bedfordshire Immediate Parent: N/A SG18 8UB CEO: Mr Bradley Appel Press Contact: Naomi Williams Tel: 07825 001130 Email: [email protected] Bedfordshire based iCandy World Limited can now add a 2018 Innovation Award to their Queen's Award for International Trade 2016. Their clever Peach travel system, is a pushchair that offers unique benefits to parents of young children. The main hub design and safety tab are patent protected features which enable easy, one handed, set-up and put down. To ensure continued usefulness and value for money for parents as they add to their family, the system also converts to a double pushchair, with the same physical footprint and still folding down to a small configuration. Delivering the flexibility and convenience that consumers were looking for, as well as achieving the essential international safety standards, required a high level of engineering ingenuity. With the system delivering 83% growth over the reviewed period, and contributing to almost doubling the number of employees, the company has demonstrated an outstanding level of innovation. Lintott Control Systems Limited Jarrold Way Website: www.lintottcs.co.uk Norwich Employees: 94 Norfolk Immediate Parent: Lintott Environmental Technologies Lim- NR5 9JD ited Managing Director: Mr David Owen Press Contact: Jamie Thums Tel: 01603 594200 Email: [email protected] Lintott Control Systems Limited of Norwich specialises in the design, manufacture and after-care of packaged water and wastewater treatment systems, along with associated electrical control panels and process software. Their Queen's Award for Innovation has been awarded for the introduction of an end-to-end Digital Delivery Suite and Visual Digital Factory.