Startedin 1981, Stateside Skates Ltdhas designed and manufactured action sports products for three and half decades. It has created andowns eight market-leading brands; specialisingin roller skates, skateboards, longboards and scooters. Around five years ago the company made aconscious effort to expand its export sales through finding agents and distributors, as well as approaching anumber of specialistshops directly. Export sales grew rapidly and now accountf or over £4 million of sales - approximately 46% of their annual turnover. Thecompany’s strategy is to create market-leading brands for the international market, which offer high quality goods at affordable prices. Thisensures that there is aconstant flow of new customers participatingin these sports. Mainland Europe markets accountf or 96.5% of thecompany’s overseas sales. It wins the Queen’s Award for International Trade for growthin overseas earnings of 388% over the last three yea***

Stelfox UK Ltd

International House

71-81 Queens Road Brighton

BN1 3XE

http://www.**elfoxsearch.com

Immediate Parent: Stelfox UK Ltd

Managing Director: Mr Stephen Kerassitis

Press Contact: Anna Pak Poy

Tel: +44(0)1273 72***

Email: anna.pakpoy**[ta]**foxsearch.com

Startedin March 2006, Stelfox UK Ltd

is aspecialist Executive Search firm that offers the full spectrum of services to the senior end of the Life Sciences market. Its clients are based globally and include small to large Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology and Medical Device companies.in addition to C-suite and Board level recruitment, it provides interim solutions, market mapping and intelligence,including perception audits on its client’s positionin the market. Overseas earnings have grown from £1.2 million to £1.82 million andnow represent 70% of overall earnings. Its largest export market is Netherlands, followed by Germany. It wins the Queen’s Award fo rInternational Trade for growthin overseas earnings of 46% over the last three years.in strict confidence 21 April 2016**

Talacrest 2000 AD Limited

Willow Farm

Bottle Lane

RG42 5RX

http://www.**lacrest.com

Managing Director: Mr John Collins

Press Contact: John Collins

Tel: +44(0)7860 58***

Email: john**[ta]**crest.com

Talacrest 2000 AD Limited

started trading on 1st January 2000 after acquiring the trade of Talacrest Limited. The company specialises inselling the rarest and most valuable classic cars throughout the whole of the UK and the rest of the world.in particular, the company isthe world’s leading specialistin selling classic Ferraris, and has sold from the earliest road and race models from the 1950’s to the early 1970’s. There has been asubstantial year on year growthin overseas sales and, although there was aslowdownin salesin the last year,annual overseas sales have grown on average by 235% year on year, and represent over 41% of annual earnings. It wins the Queen’s Award for International Trade for continuous growthin overseas earnings, which have grown from £433,000in 2010 to £59.3 million inthe year to March 2015.

Vocality International Ltd

Lydling Barn

Puttenham Lane

Shackleford

GU8 6AP

http://www.**cality.com

CEO: Mrs Susan Harvey

Press Contact: Zoe Yates

Tel: +44(0)1483 813***

Email: zoe.yates**[ta]**lity.com

Vocality International Ltd

started tradingin 1995. Its business is based on supplying products which improve the quality of communicationscreated to unify communications platforms, enhance voice quality, increase video performance and improve data throughput. Its principlemanufacturing and R&D activities are basedin the UK, but with strong links to the key embedded software and security specialistmanufacturersin the United States. The organisation has consistently investedin new technology design, allowing it to compete successfully with the large router manufacturers. Export salesin the latest year amount to 44% of total sales and have grown from £504,100in 2013 to £1.76 millionin 2015. It has adiverse marketf or its product with the top two markets being Brazil and the United States of America. It wins theQueen’s Award for International Trade for outstanding overseas sales growth over the last three years.

Willard Conservation Ltd

The Workshop

Leigh Road Chichester

PO19 8TS

http://www.**llard.co.uk

Managing Director: Mr Paul Willard

Press Contact: Paul Willard

Tel: +44(0)1243 77***

Email: paul**[ta]**ard.co.uk

Willard Conservation Ltd

is aBritish manufacturer of unique world-class conservation tools and equipmentf or fine art and heritageconservation. Founded originallyin the 1950’s, it supplies tools and equipmentf or the conservation and preservation of works of art andhistoric archival media. Over the last 7 years, the company has investedin the growth and diversification of its product range, whilst maintainingthe high quality and reliability, for which it is renowned. Overseas sales have grown over the last six years, rising from £107,000in 2010 to £292,000in 2015.in the most recent year, it exported 56% of its international sales to the USA, and afurther 21% to China. It wins theQueen’s Award for International Trade for continuous growthin overseas earnings of 173% over the last six years.in strict confidence 21 April 2016**

Seacourt Ltd

Pony Road Horspath Road Industria

OX4 2SE

http://www.**acourt.net

Immediate Parent: GRD Investments, United Kingdom

Managing Director: Mr Gareth Dinnage

Press Contact: Gareth Dinnage

Tel: +44(0)1865 77***

Email: garethdinnage**[ta]**ourt.net

Seacourt Limited

began tradingin 1946 and boasts arange of high profile national customers. Sustainable development is core to the businessstrategy and the company is committed to delivering high quality printed material with the lightest environmental impact. It has pursuedthis commitmentf or 20 years, demonstrating continuous achievement and an ability to re-think the approach rather than simply relying onimproved efficiency of existing technologies. The company became azero waste to landfill companyin 2009 and has driven the development of new printing press technology,in partnership with aleading printing press manufacturer. This innovation (the LightTouch process) is auniquewaterless printing press that incorporates an LED drying unit. The company supports local charities and events. Impressive sector leadership isdemonstrated and suppliers are selected on the basis of their ability and willingness to improve the sustainability of their supply chain.

Seacourt Limitedalso received an awardin this categoryin 2007 and 2***

Wates GroupWates House

Station Approach

KT22 7SW

http://www.**tes.co.uk

Employees: ***

Chief Executive Director: Mr Andrew Davies

Press Contact: Gemma Phillips

Tel: +44(0)1372 86***

Email: gemma.phillips**[ta]**s.co.uk

Wates Group is one of the UK’s largest family-owned construction and development companies and began tradingin 1897 . The company has had aformal approach to managing sustainable development as outlinedin ‘Reshaping tomorrow’, aprogramme that prioritises thehealth & safety, environmental, diversity & inclusion and community issues within the company’s influence. The company aims to strengthenrelationships with customers, partners and the communities it works in. It demonstrates exemplary and innovative performancein anumber of areas, particularly for supporting educationin deprived areas, engagement with social enterprises through our supply chain and its approach to equalities and supportf or helping young people and long-term unemployed people into work. There is acontinued commitment to reducecarbon emissions by 10% annually, and 98% of waste is currently diverted from landfill. Its work with the Supply Chain Sustainability Academy also demonstrates exemplary performancein procurement, improving the sustainability performance of suppliers. This award follows anotherawardin the Sustainable Development categoryin 2011.in strict confidence 21 April 2016**

apetito Ltd

Canal Road Trowbridge

Wiltshire

BA14 8RJ

Http://www.**etito.co.uk/

Employees:***

CEO: Mr Paul Freeston

Press Contact: Lee Sheppard

Tel: +44(0)7774 19***

Email: lee.sheppard**[ta]**ito.co.uk

an Innovation award is made to apetito Ltd.

The company is asupplier of frozen ready meals to the welfare sector, this includes hospitals,care homes, meals on wheels and direct to consumers via their Wiltshire Farm Foods service. The innovation is the creation of arange of texture-modified foods compliant with all four of the National Descriptor Guidelines suitable for the 4 million peoplein the UK that suffer fromdysphagia (they have difficulty chewing and swallowing). apetito Ltd

launched this rangein 2010 and have seen substantial growth since,continuing to improve the range but maintaining the selling price at aconstant level whilst reducing production costs. The key innovationsurrounds the use of starches and plant extracts to give an appealing shape to the specially prepared food. apetito’s innovative Texture Modified range has asignificant positive impact on the wellbeing of its customers by helping to stimulate appetite and increase nutritional intake.

Gooch & Housego (Torquay) Ltd

Unit ABroomhill Way Torquay Devon

TQ2 7QL

http://www.**ochandhousego.com

Employees:***

Immediate Parent: Gooch & Housego PLC

United Kingdom

CEO: Mr Mark Webster

Press Contact: Adrian Chance

Tel: +44(0)1460 25***

Email: adchance**[ta]**handhousego.com

Gooch & Housego (Torquay) Ltd

receives its first Innovation Award for Fibre-Q, afibre optic device to reproduce and modify the properties of laser light with precise electronic control. Fibre-Q uses the interaction between light and sound waves to achieve its effect. Laser lightenables the machining of very small features and is astandard toolin machined products, including the electronics and sensors industry.

Previously the only available solution for modifying abeam was amechanical alignment of the optical fibre to asecond device. This wasunreliable and expensive and constrained the growth of fibre laser based solutionsin manufacturing. Fibre-Q allows customers to rapidly and reliably change the properties of the laser beam and amplify its power allowing the laser to be usedin cutting materials. The technology has been used to manufacture sensors usedin the oil and gas industry and for high end microscopy. The applicant started tradingin 2***

Hope for Tomorrow

Upton Lodge

Tetbury Gloucestershire

GL8 8LP

http://www.**pefortomorrow.org.uk

Founder and Trustee: Mrs Christine Mills MBE

Press Contact: Claire Cosgrove

Tel: +44(0)1666 50***

Email: clairecosgrove**[ta]**fortomorrow.org.uk

Hope for Tomorrow wins an Innovation Award for its Mobile Chemotherapy Units (MCUs). The MCUs address the problem of patients having to travel long distances to and from treatment and provide the NHS with additional capacity. Coincidently, their first MCU wasin ‘the world’ notjust the UK! The MCUs are owned and maintained by the charity and are operated as part of apartnership with the local NHS Trusts. Hope fo rTomorrow currently operates ten MCUsin anumber of locations. The charity, establishedin 2002, was the first to offer such aservicein theUK. Each unit can perform up to 2000 treatments per year.in strict confidence 21 April 2016 81 Micro Nav Limited

41-47 Seaborne Rd

Bournemouth

Dorset

BH5 2HU

http://www.**cronav.co.uk

Managing Director: Mr Stephen Williams

Press Contact: Steve Hook

Tel: +44(0)1202 76***

Email: stevehook**[ta]**onav.co.uk

Micro Nav Limited

receives an Innovation Award for its automatic projector alignment system usedin air traffic control simulators. Formed in1988 this leading specialist company is developing and supplying air traffic control, air defence simulators and training systems that rely onthe use of multiple projectors to present asimulated view that would be seen from acontrol tower at an airport. Historically, setting up andmaintaining the calibration of multiple projector arrays has been achieved manually by skilled specialist engineers. The applicant has developedthe Automatic Display Alignment System (ADAS) acombination of hardware and software. ADAS uses an array of high resolution digitalcameras together with light emitting diodes embeddedin the display screen to perform ageometric alignment of each of the projected images.

This means that all of the projected images will align with the screen and each other. The final step is to automatically adjust the colour andbrightness so that all the images appear as asingle image.

Precision Dippings Manufacturing Ltd

Lawrence Drive

Stover Trading Estate Yate

Bristol

BS37 5PG

http://www.**ecisiondippings.co.uk

Director: Mr Douglas King

Press Contact: Jennifer Wood

Tel: +44(0)7786 62***

Email: jennie**[ta]**anchepr.co.uk

Precision Dippings Manufacturing Ltd(PDM) wins an Innovation Award for developing waterproof covers for plaster casts. Bloccs protectorsare self-sealable, reusable and enable injured people to shower, bathe or swim. Bloccs has taken the applicant, which has been trading since1964,in anew direction as adirect manufacturer/supplier, as opposed to acontract manufacturer, and has opened up the medical devicemarket to them. Its innovation was inspired by an injury to one of the company director’s children. The waterproofing know-how it applied to Bloccs came from its experiencein manufacturing watertight seals for marine dry suits and rubber components for medical equipment.

Following prototyping and market research the Bloccs product was launched. The company overcame anumber of material challengesdeveloping aseal that was watertight, but elastic enough to stretch over injuries. Once the design and sizing were researched and set,production was automated on arobotic line. The majority of the competition is splash-proof, but not completely submersib***

Unilink Technology Services Ltd

Westway Farm

Somerset

BS39 5XP

http://www.**ilink-technology-services.com

http://www.**ailaprisoner.com

http://www.**cure-payment-services.com

Immediate Parent: The Unilink Group Ltd.

United KingdomDirector: Mr Francis Toye

Press Contact: Alex Zlatinova

Tel: +44(0)20 7036 ***

Email: enquiries**[ta]**ink.co.uk

Unilink Ltd

wins aQueen’s Award for Innovation for the development of Email aPrisoner (emap) for sending email to and from prisoners. Traditionalmail is slow and every envelope has to be opened and examined by prison officers. Email does not pose the same risk, so, saves staff time andincreases the speed of communications, helping to maintain relationships outside prison. The system is innovativein the way that it complies withthe security requirements of prisons and the lack of terminals and information technologyin most prisons. Messages are printed and prisonerscan write on the messages, which are then scanned and emailed back to the correspondent.in some prisons self-service kiosks have been usedwhere prisoners can login via fingerprint ID and read and reply to messages. To prevent transmission of secret codes and phrases, each messageis automatically screened through asecure portal under prison officer control. The applicant started tradingin 2007.in strict confidence 21 April 2016**

Viper Subsea Technology Ltd

Unit 3A

Marine View Office Park45 Martingale Way Portishead

BS20 7AW

http://www.**persubsea.com

Managing Director: Mr Neil Douglas

Press Contact: Linda Donaldson

Tel: +44(0)1225 42***

Email: linda**[ta]**etrypr.co.uk

Viper Subsea Technology Ltd

wins an Innovation Award for the product V-LIFE, which prevents the need for expensive replacement of electricalcabling for subsea oil production. Subsea equipment utilises an umbilical, acomplex assembly comprising hydraulic hoses and electricalcables. The umbilical has to operate for approximately 25 years and is highly susceptible to any seawater ingress. Seawater ingress can causesystem failure and loss of productivity requiring complete equipment replacement, which is very costly. The novel mechanism developed by the applicant can be utilised on the subsea cables by applying atightly controlled, complex electrical signal onto the copper conductors of thecable. The innovation reduces the consequences of sea water ingress and allows the continued use of the umbilical without the need for areplacement that has costs of the order of tens of millions of pounds and the resultant lossin oil production during the downtime. The applicantstarted tradingin 2007.in strict confidence 21 April 2016**

Quedgeley West Business ParkBristol Road GL2 4PA

http://www.**splc.com

Employees:***

Managing Director: Mr Andrew Bennion

Press Contact: Matthew Collins

Tel: +44(0)1452 88***

Email: matt.collins**[ta]**lc.com

Establishedin 2007, Advanced Insulation Ltdhas grown to become asingle source provider of subsea insulation and topside passive fireprotection systems to the upstream oil and gas industry. Its products are now qualified and used worldwide by major oil and gas companiesincluding Total, ConocoPhilips, Chevron, BP, Statoil, BG, ENI Woodside, Talisman and ExxonMobil. aprevious Queen’s Award winner fo rInternational Tradein 2012 and Innovationin 2013, the company continues to grow supported by anetwork of local representationsin key countries around the world including USA, Kazakhstan, Korea, United Arab Emirates, Angola, Malaysia and Brazil. The company employs ahub and spoke system with the UK hub providing manufacturing, management and support, and feeding the local regions. Building on itsintegrated international strategy overseas sales have grown by 332% over the last three years, and the company wins the Queen’s Award fo rCalnet Systems Ltd

- t/a British Corner shopUnit B7/B8 Backfield Farm

Iron Acton

BS37 9XD

http://www.**itishcornershop.co.uk

Managing Director: Mr Mark Callaghan

Press Contact: Sophie Saint

Tel: +44(0)1179 89***

Email: sophie.saint**[ta]**ishcornershop.co.uk