Queen's Awards for Enterprise
- Queen's Awards for Enterprise
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 first named The Queen's Award to Industry, 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 their birthday every year. For Elizabeth II this is April 21.
History
"The Queen's Award to Industry", the scheme's original title, was instituted by Royal Warrant 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. 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. [http://www.queensawards.org.uk/individual/Home.html retrieved on Oct 30, 2007.]
Recipients
Complete listings of winners since 2004 are available at [http://www.queensawards.org.uk/business/Winners/2008.html The Queen's Awards for Enterprise] official website. Pre-2004 Past recipients include:
References
External links
* [http://www.queensawards.org.uk Official Website]
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