The next round of the prestigious Queen’s Awards for Enterprise closes for applications in September, and today David Grimes, Head of the Growth, urged all Sheffield City Region businesses to enter.
“It’s a great way to raise the profile of your business globally, it can help increase opportunities for growth for a winning business.
“We in the Growth Hub are very proud that we have been working with Hothouse Partnerships, which won an award this year for outstanding growth in international sales over the last three years. The Sheffield City Region Growth Hub has also been working with Central Wire Industries, (CWI) the high-value steel manufacturing firm based in Rotherham, which also won the award for growth in exports”.
The awards are free to enter, and companies can apply for more than one of the four categories: Innovation, International Trade, Sustainable Development, and Promoting Opportunity through Social Mobility. Entries must be made online by midday on Wednesday 12th September.
Entry forms, criteria, and details of how to apply are at https://bit.ly/24hyMTX
Ten of the 26 companies winning Queen’s Awards in Yorkshire and Humber in 2018 in the Yorkshire and Humber region are from the Sheffield City Region.
The team at Barnsley-based Hothouse Partnerships collected their Queen’s Award at Buckingham Palace from Prince Charles in June and co-founder Mel Brownlow said it had been a ‘fantastic’ experience. Hothouse Partnerships develops, manufactures and distributes beauty products.
Meanwhile Central Wire Industries, which won its award thanks to its outstanding growth of over 92% in export sales in just three years, primarily to Saudi Arabia and the oil and gas sectors, was also delighted. President Paul From flew in from Canada to attend a reception marking the award.
CWI is a world leader in the wire-drawing industry and is now working with the Sheffield City Region and its international investment experts to work out ways to increase production.
Congratulations also go to the other seven businesses in the Sheffield City Region which won Queen’s Awards. They were:
For International Trade –
Go Superfoods trading as Green Origins and Rainforest Foods, Sheffield, for outstanding growth in overseas sales in the last three years. Go Superfoods imports, sells and exports organics superfoods.
Ossila Ltd, Sheffield, for outstanding continuous growth in overseas sales over the last six years. Ossila provides the components, equipment, and materials to enable intelligent and efficient scientific research and discovery in sectors such as the next generation of solar cells.
SBD Apparel, Rotherham, for outstanding three-year growth in overseas sales. SBD makes performance supports such as belts, wrist wraps and knee socks for competitive strength sports such as the World’s Strongest Man.
Twinkl Ltd, Sheffield, for outstanding growth in overseas sales over the last three years. Twinkl is an online educational publisher of teaching, planning and assessment materials.
For Innovation –
Ancon Ltd (Ancon Building Products), Sheffield, for development of low thermal conductivity wall ties.
Manvers Engineering of Park Springs, Barnsley, development of a novel oil spill container for construction sites.
Samuel Grant, packaging manufacturers, Sheffield, for developing a fixed price system for wrapped pallets.
Transdek UK, Harworth, Bassetlaw, for development of a high capacity double-deck trailer.