The best of North West business receive Queen's Awards for Enterprise 2012

The Queen's Awards for Enterprise are the highest accolade a business can receive.

Clive Drinkwater, UKTI's Director - North West, says

"It gives me great pleasure to congratulate the 2012 winners of the International Trade category in the North West and to extend my congratulations to the winners of the Innovation and Sustainable Development categories in the region. The Queen's Awards recognise outstanding achievement and the winners of the International Trade Award will surely inspire other North West businesses to grow internationally.

I was delighted to bring together and meet our winners at a celebratory lunch in Knutsford on 26 July. Winners shared their experiences, pledged their support for UKTI North West's Export Challenge and looked ahead to future export opportunities".

The North West winners of the International Trade category are:

• ACDC LED Ltd - Nelson, Lancashire

• Allied Filter Systems Ltd - Irlam, Manchester

• Americhem Europe Limited - Eccles, Manchester

• BMP Europe Ltd - Accrington, Lancashire

• ChargePoint Technology Limited, Liverpool, Merseyside

• Colonial Gifts Limited - Burnley, Lancashire

• Glen Dimplex Home Appliances Ltd - Prescot, Merseyside

• ICC Solutions Limited - Warrington Cheshire

• INCINER8 Limited - Southport, Merseyside

• JD Hughes Group Plc - Stockport, Cheshire

• Langtec Limited - Accrington, Lancashire

• Laser Quantum Ltd - Stockport, Cheshire

• M Chapman & Sons Textiles Ltd t/a Brisbane Moss - Todmorden, Lancashire

• Mettler Toledo Safeline Ltd - Salford, Manchester

• Morson Projects Limited - Salford, Manchester

• Nichols plc - Newton-Le-Willows, Merseyside

• Oerlikon Fibrevision Ltd - Macclesfield, Cheshire

• Oliver Valvetek Limited - Knutsford, Cheshire

• Regatta Ltd - Urmston, Manchester

• The Clinical Trial Company Ltd - Knutsford, Cheshire