International Trade Awards

International trade awards honour businesses and people who exhibit exceptional performance in international trade, recognizing excellence and innovation in global commerce. These honours usually encompass several areas, including market expansion, sustainable practices, technical innovation, accomplishments in import/export, and contributions to the improvement of the world economy. They are used to recognize companies that have significantly advanced worldwide trade ties, promoted economic growth, and fostered international collaboration. Among the well-known international trade honours are:

The Queen's Awards for Enterprise (International commerce) honour UK-based companies that flourish in global commerce and exhibit rapid expansion and inventiveness in foreign markets.

Global Commerce Awards: Recognizing businesses globally for their accomplishments in cross-border commerce across a range of sectors and geographical areas.

The World Trade Awards honour groups and people for their contributions to international trade, including projects that advance international trade, environmentally friendly behaviour, and economic growth.

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The International Trade Awards, held for the first time in 2007,^[1] are the UK's premier awards devoted exclusively to recognising excellence in import, export and international trade achievement.

This is a series of twelve regional International Trade Awards. Winners from each region are announced at presentation ceremonies held from February through to December with the winners automatically progressing as national finalists.

Objectives

The objectives of the awards are to:

Identify and reward the UK's most successful and innovative exporters
Promote the UK's top exporters as corporate role models in order to stimulate greater involvement in international trade amongst UK businesses
Promote the leading exporters of local and regional areas to encourage international trade by all companies irrespective of size and location
Further develop community awareness of the importance of exporting to the UK's economic future^[2]

Sponsor

The International Trade Awards are sponsored by HSBC.

2007 winners

The 2007 regional winners were:

Long O'Donnell Associates (North West winner)
Immunodiagnostic Systems (North East winner)
Nisa (Yorkshire and Humberside winner)
Geothermal International (West Midlands winner)
University of Nottingham (East Midlands winner)
GigaSat (East of England winner)
Star Syringe (South East winner)
The Ford Farm (South West winner)
MET Studio Design (London winner)
Randox Laboratories (Northern Ireland winner)
Daniels Fans (Welsh winner)
4i2i Communications (Scotland winner)

The 2007 national winners announced at The House of Lords on 2 April 2008 were:

Star Syringe (Innovation Category winner)
The Ford Farm (SME Category winner)
GigaSat (Overall winner)^[3]

2008 winners

The 2008 regional winners are:

James Halstead (North West winner)
Davy Roll (North East winner)
Penn Pharmaceutical Services (Wales winner)

References

^ "Call for London entries – International Trade Awards". North Dorset District Council. Archived from the original on 2006-07-09. Retrieved 2008-04-08.
^ "About the Awards". Internationaltradeawards.co.uk.
^ "Award Winners 2007". Internationaltrade.co.uk.

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