EAST INNOVATION

Sentec Ltd

5 The Westbrook CentreCB4 1YGFor the development of afamily of electricity meter current sensors, smart grid and metering specialist Sentec Ltd

winsan Innovation Award. The sensors consist of precisely designed coils made from printed circuit boards, which couple to themagnetic field created by currents flowing through the meters to give avery accurate measurement of the current. The patented balanced coil design ensures that the sensors only pick up current from the conductorsin the meter, and eliminates interferencefrom adjacent circuits. The sensors are exceptionally stable long-term, and immune to tampering by magnets, yet are the mostcost-effective solution available for metrologyin an electricity meter, providing dependable and accurate information on energy consumption to suppliers and customers. Smart electricity meter products have been built around the sensors for both the USand European markets, making use of the flexibility of design choices that the underlying sensor technology enables.

Ubisense Group PLC wins an Innovation Award for developing areal-time, location-tracking system that can precisely determinethe 3D position of tagged objects to amuch higher accuracy than is possible with technologies such as GPS. The systemis deployedin avariety of environments, such as vehicle production lines where it reduces costs by monitoring, optimisingand automating existing manufacturing processes. It is also used by petro-chemical companies to ensure that personnelfollow safety protocols and can be automatically musteredin an emergency. The Ubisense system comprises afixed sensorinfrastructure that communicates with small active tags. The tags can be worn by people or attached to assets, and incorporate patented technology that allows them to be reliably located to within 15cm of their actual position. These innovations have led to significant business growth, particularlyin export, allowing Ubisense to also win the Award for International Trade.

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

CEO: Dr Mark England

Contactf or Press Enquiries: Sarah Boulton

Tel: 020 7068 ***

Email: sarah.boulton**[ta]**irepr.com

EAST SUSTAINABLE developmentAdnams plc

Sole Bay Brewery East Green

Southwold

IP18 6JW

Adnams plc wins aSustainable Development Award for pursuing avalues-based approach to management within its brewery,wine merchants and hoteliers business. As aresult, it has reduced its negative environmental impact and made significantcontributions to the well-being of its surrounding communities. It provides an excellent example to its industry. Through theintroduction of carbon-neutral beer and lighter beer bottles, it reduced operational impact. It established an innovativeEco-distribution Centre, regarded as exemplar. Partnering alocal small business, it harnessed anaerobic digestion technology for generating gas from organic waste to supply its own requirements and feed surpluses to the national grid. The company provides leadership, staff resource and funding to promote responsible drinking and support work experience and training,especially for disabled and disadvantaged people.http://www.**nams.co.uk

Head of Corporate Affairs: Ms Emma Hibbert

Contactf or Press Enquiries: Emma Hibbert

Tel: 01502 727***

Tel: 07766 206***

Email: emma.hibbert**[ta]**ms.co.uk

THE QUEEN’S AWARD fo rMr. Steve Rawlings Lakehouse Steve Rawlings is the Chief Executive of Lakehouse, an award-winning company which he foundedin 1988. He began his careeras a16 year-old apprentice and is now passionate about supporting disadvantaged individuals with the skills, training andadvice needed to start and grow their own businesses. He began his unpaid enterprise promotion activitiesin 2007 with theestablishment of aprogramme called Lakehouse Legacy at his construction company. It aimed to champion small and microbusinesses and support start-up businesses and social enterprises throughout London.in 2010 he founded Building Lives Training Academy as aCommunity Interest Company supporting people into work and training within the construction industry predominantly working with individuals excluded from society including ex-offenders and homeless and young people that areunemployed or notin education.

Contactf or Press Enquiries: Amanda Lealman, Marketing & Communications Manager

Tel: 01708 758***

Tel: 07886 592***

Email: amanda.lealman**[ta]**house.uk.com

MIDLANDS INTERNATIONAL

Trade Cambridge Manufacturing Company Ltd

Stafford House,10 Brakey Road Weldon North Industrial Estate Corby NN17 5LU

Foundedin 1984 Cambridge Manufacturing Company Ltd.

[part of Cambridge Nutritional Foods Ltd] develops, manufacturesand markets Cambridge Weight Plan weight management programmesin more than 20 countries around the world as well asin the UK. The company is part owned by an Employee Benefit Trust whose main role is to ensure that the Cambridge businessis runin the best interests of all its employees. The company wins the Award for the first time for its outstanding achievement inoverseas earnings growth with year-on-year increasesin export sales and an overseas earnings growth calculated at 119% since

2008. During this period the company has also significantly investedin developing the Cambridge brand and its product line inall its sales regionsin addition to maintaining aprice competitive product range. This approach has resultedin increased salesand also an increasein the proportion of sales exported.

Central Systems & Automation Ltd

2 Thorpe Way Grove Business ParkEnderby LE19 1SU

Central Systems & Automation Ltd

wins aQueen’s award for outstanding performance over the last three years increasing salesand exports leading to overseas earnings growth of 470%. Establishedin 1988 they design, develop, & implement Autostore, anin-house engineered software inventory management and equipment control solution for the movement and storage of goods.

Basedin Enderby, Leicester, the company now has over 75 Autostore customer sites worldwide for blue-chip organisations

that include Shell, Nestle, Kraft, and Associated British Ports. The company has established afull-time regional officein Dubai to service Middle Eastern export customersin partnership with Saudi Arabian and Qatari distributors. Market leadersin theScandinavian and Baltic region with seven major customer sites, the company also has an Australian customer base via athird

party partnership that has won them significant business.

Crusher Manganese Steels Limited

Vulcan Way Hermitage Industrial Estate LE67 3AP

Crusher Manganese Steels Limited

establishedin 1989, manufactures and supplies engineered components for crushingequipment usedin quarrying and mining. Their products and engineering services are marketed worldwide under thetrademark of CMS Cepcor. Winning an award for outstanding achievement, they exported to 54 countriesin the first year of their application, 64in the second and 78 by the final year. This success is aresult of having refocused its export sales strategyon new markets and by addressing currency, delivery and stocking levels across all its markets. Market expansion has beenachieved through acombination of multi-media activities and market visits; an engineering focus on producing quality productsand an expansion of the range of services offered; staff development (focusing on foreign language skills) and increasing thenumber of business partnersin overseas territories.

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

Immediate Parent: Cambridge Nutritional Foods Ltd

Managing Director: Mrs Eileen Skinner

Contactf or Press Enquiries: Christopher McDermott

Tel: 07894 411***

Email: chrismcdermott**[ta]**ridgeweightplan.co.uk

http://www.**ntral-systems.co.uk

Commercial Director: Mr Andrew McKaig

Contactf or Press Enquiries: Julian Wright

Tel: 01858 555***

Email: julian.wright**[ta]**ral-systems.co.uk

http://www.**scepcor.com

Managing Director: Mr Matthew Weare

Contactf or Press Enquiries: Lynne Whyte

Tel: 01530 817***

Tel: 07894 390***

Email: lynne**[ta]**epcor.com

Douglas Gill International Ltd

Manor House Road Long Eaton

NG10 1LR

Douglas Gill International Ltd

was establishedin 1975. The company designs, develops and manufactures technical marineclothing for the sailing and marine industries under its own brand Gill. It wins the Award for the first time for its outstandingachievementin developing export markets.in particular the company shows considerationin market selection and the approachused to exploit the market. This activity has led to an increasein company size with growth of 52%in overseas earningsin thelast three years and is now one of the world’s leading technical marine clothing brands.

Dura Limited St James Road Brackley NN13 7XY Foundedin 1997, Dura Ltd

is basedin Brackley Northamptonshire. The company designs and manufactures an internationally recognised range of steel furniture primarily for the automotive workshop although it also has applications for the residentialmarket. The company has won aQueen’s Award for International Trade for increasing sales and exports leading to 97% growth.

Recognised as amarket leader Dura have obtained endorsement from major OEMs as part of their dealer standard.

The company has achieved this with anumber of manufacturers including Aston Martin, Audi, Honda Europe, Jaguar Land Rover and Harley-Davidson and are recognised as abenchmark productin the sector. The company is developing anew range of innovative fully patented next generation products to be manufactured at their facilityin Plymouth.

Filtration Control Limited

Unit B-C Sketty Close

Brackmills Industrial Estate NN4 7PL

Incorporatedin 1987, Filtration Control Limited

manufactures and distributes long life air filters for bus, truck and otherautomotive applications. It wins the Award for the first time for its continuous improvementin overseas earnings growth showingsome 290% overall year on year growth for the six year period. This performance is also shownin overall company commercialsuccess with an increasein company size and profits. The strategy that supports this success is focused around direct sales to large vehicle fleets and exporting of own brand products.in addition, the company also applies aspeedy and innovativeapproach to new opportunities that enhances its reputation within the sector.

http://www.**llmarine.com

Chairman: Mr Nicholas Gill

Contactf or Press Enquiries: Nick Gill

Tel: 07768 825***

Email: nick.gill**[ta]**uk.com

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

Managaing Director: Mr Dominic Wishlade

Contactf or Press Enquiries: Daniel Calvert

Tel: 01280 706***

Email: daniel**[ta]**.co.uk

http://www.**ltrationcontrol.com

Managing Director: Mr Deryck Norville

Contactf or Press Enquiries: Wayne Stevens

Tel: 07967 215***

Email: wayne**[ta]**rationcontrol.com

Morningside Pharmaceuticals Ltd

5 Pavilion Way Castle Business ParkLE11 5GW

Establishedin 1991, Morningside Pharmaceuticals Ltdhas expanded as amanufacturer, distributor and exporter of pharmaceutical and medical device products with sales to Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, Middle East and morerecently the EU. It wins the Award for the first time for its continuous improvementin export sales, growing by 223% over thesix year period. Morningside successfully supplies healthcare products to the United Nations, Aid agencies, Charities andMinistries of Health to meet its mission statement of making quality healthcare an affordable and accessible reality worldwide.

The company has more recently grown their UK market sharein the NHS and pharmacy sectorsin key therapeutic categoriesas they expand their product ranges.

PXtech Ltd

5 Pinnacle Way Pride ParkDE24

ZSPXtech Ltd

basedin Derby, has won aQueen’s Award for International Trade for continuous improvement over the last six years.

Establishedin 1999, export sales have increased consistently and overseas earnings growth is an impressive 1633%. Thecompany’s unique information technology solutions allows remote monitoring of key performance indicators, sale, and financialcontrols, enabling clients live access to their information from any internet location, reducing costs and improving efficiency fo rbusinessesin arange of sectors. PXtech has created effective, credible partnerships with international businesses including Dell,Par, and Serco Learning, consolidating salesin France, Germany, the Netherlands and the Republic of Ireland. From its UK base,they have rapidly expanded into new marketsin North America, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Italy and Belgium.

RAKON UK Limited

Dowsett House

Sadler Road LN6 3RS

RAKON UK Limited

designs and manufactures specialised electronic components, predominantly for the globaltelecommunications industry. It wins the Award for the first time for its outstanding achievementin growing its overseasbusiness by 145%. This success is the result of the implementation of acustomer-focussed strategy, leading to expansioninto both existing and new markets.in particular the company has worked to maintain areputation for technology leadershipand the highest product performance and quality, along with improving its production efficiency and agility. It has also beensuccessfulin developing and maintaining excellent customer relationships through face to face sales operationsin emergingmarkets, ensuring the needs of these markets are understood and met consistent***

http://www.**rningsidepharm.com

CEO & Managing Director: Dr Nik Kotecha

Contactf or Press Enquiries: Dr Nik Kotecha

Tel: 01509 217***

Email: drnik**[ta]**ingsidepharm.com

http://www.**tech.net

Managaing Director: Mr Richard Dorf

Contactf or Press Enquiries: Emilie Whelan

Tel: 01159 486***

Email: emilie**[ta]**gency.com

http://www.**kon.com

Employees:***

Immediate Parent: Rakon Limited

- New Zealand

Business Unit Manager: Dr Philip Davies

Contactf or Press Enquiries: Dr Philip Davies

Tel: 07769 697***

Email: philip.davies**[ta]**n.com

Ramsden internationalAdam Smith StreetDN31 1SJ

Ramsden International was establishedin 1989. It is basedin Lincolnshire and is aprevious award winner as Nisa International.

A successful export wholesaler of over 23,000 British and Italian groceries, speciality and health food products, the company has invested heavilyin staff training, multi lingual websites, and anew reprocessing centre to help customers comply with regulatory requirementsin overseas markets. This has been especially effectivein opening up the Middle Eastern andScandinavian markets. The development of the company’s freight forwarding and logistics capacity has enabled them to deliverchilled, ambient and frozen foods to some of the most remote corners of the world.

SMS Electronics Limited

SMS House

Technology Drive

Beeston

NG9 1AD

Establishedin November 2002, SMS Electronics Ltd

is one of the UK’s leading electronic manufacturing services companies.

SMS have investedin state of the art equipment to position the company at the leading edge of electronic manufacturingtechnology. The company provides its manufacturing services over awide range of market sectors, helping its customers to future proof their manufacturing requirements. The management team has reshaped the company to provide aworld classmanufacturing service and has developed astrong reputation with its key customers resultingin adoubling of turnover. Based inNottingham they have won the Queen’s Award for International Trade with exports accounting for 72% of turnover contributing to overseas earnings growth of 1000% over the last three years. The company operatesin anumber of export markets with the US being one of the largest but are currently working to increase their export reachin new locations.

TTS Group Ltd

Unit 1 Park Lane

NG17 9GU

TTS Group Ltd

design, create and supply educational resources to schools and parents worldwide. Its strategy is based onproducing products, inspired by teachersin the UK, which pioneer and enable new methods of learning. Receiving an outstandingaward for achieving overseas earnings growth of 146% over the last three years, the company has focused on developing theEuropean, USA and BRIC markets; achieving some inspiring successes. With recent visits to Brazil and India under their belt,they are set to see successin these markets tooin the coming year. TTS Group currently tradesin 53 international markets,their commercial success is demonstrated by having taken on over 100 additional staff as they have grown.

http://www.**msden-international.com

Immediate Parent: DB Ramsden & Co Limited

Managing Director: Mr Sean Ramsden

Contactf or Press Enquiries: Philip Evans

Tel: 01472 809***

Email: philip.evans**[ta]**den-international.com

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

Managaing Director: Mr Mike Harby

Contactf or Press Enquiries: Mr Chris Hunt

Tel: 01159 575***

Email: chris.hunt**[ta]**lectronics.co.uk

http://www.**s-group.co.uk

Employees:***

Immediate Parent: RM PLC

Manager Director: Mr Andy Wilson

Contactf or Press Enquiries: Cath Jeffrey

Tel: 01623 478***

Email: cjeffrey**[ta]**group.co.uk

EAST MIDLANDS INNOVATION

BPR Medical Ltd

22 Hamilton Way Oakham Business ParkMansfield

NG18 5BU

BPR Medical Ltd

wins an Innovation Award for developing FireSafe, apatented device for preventing the spread of firesin thevicinity of medical equipment involving oxygen. Oxygen usein clinical arenas has the potential to accelerate the spread of fire with possibly fatal consequences. The FireSafe product range provides automatic fire breaksin oxygen hoses, and relatedequipment, usedin hospitals and homes; importantly, cutting off sources of oxygen as soon as possible after fire detection.

Since the range was launched, there have been many thousands of home oxygen installations and acorresponding increase inoxygen-related fires. However, thanks to the innovation, the number of fatalities has remained low. Sales of the new product havebeen world-wide and the company has become the recognised leaderin the field.

Infrared Integrated Systems Ltd

The Barns

Tithe Barn Way NN4 9BGan Innovation Award is made to Infrared Integrated Systems Ltd

for developing and manufacturing queue management systems.

Installedin retail outlets, fast-food restaurants, self-service areas and airport security areas, the systems automatically measuresand predicts queue lengths through thermal detection. They count numbers of people entering stores and queues by detectingbody heat using discrete, non-invasive, low-energy sensors. Incorporating advanced algorithms, they provide predictions of future queue-lengths and waiting times. Such information informs decisions regarding the opening and closing of check-outsand the enhancing of customer service support. The innovation has improved labour efficiency and resource planningin many organisations. The new products have led to significant levels of businessin the UK and export markets.

http://www.**rmedical.com

Managing Director: Mr Richard Radford

Contactf or Press Enquiries: Mr Richard Radford

Tel: 07713 082***

Email: richard.radford**[ta]**edical.com

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

COO: Dr Ian Wilcock

Contactf or Press Enquiries: Richard Strange

Tel: 07976 851***

Email: richard**[ta]**ngepr.com