UK Businesses Still Competing on the International Stage
Published July 28th, 2010
Now entering its fourth year, the 2010 International Trade Awards, sponsored by Santander Corporate Banking, is the only UK wide business awards to exclusively recognise the excellence achieved by the UK’s leading exporters and importers.
Despite the challenges posed by recent global economic conditions, UK companies are still competing on the international stage. As the tenth largest exporter in the world, British companies exported goods and services worth more than £231 billion from 2009 to 2010, and the International Trade Awards celebrate these ventures and successes.
Businesses from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales are invited to enter one of 12 regional heats to compete for a regional title. Regional finalists will be invited to attend the UK final, held at the House of Lords in Spring 2011.
The International Trade Awards recognises companies of all sizes regardless of sector that turnover £1m or more. Winning an award not only raises an organisation’s profile it also puts a smile on the faces of employees as last year’s winners of the Excellence In Innovation Award, specialist software developers ITRS Group discovered.
With offices in London, New York and Hong Kong, ITRS Group has seen rapid and sustained growth to become the leading global provider of real-time systems to the world’s financial community. They beat off strong regional competition to take the title of London winner of the International Trade Awards 2009 and then beat 11 other regional finalists to be announced Winner of the Excellence in Innovation Category.
Commenting on the win, Stephen Bates, CEO of ITRS Group, said: “It’s quite humbling to be chosen from amongst a peer group that represents the great things that this country is achieving – winning the award is taking time to sink in. Clearly, we are delighted that the International Trade Awards chose ITRS as winners of the ‘Excellence in Innovation’ award; it is very prestigious and will feature prominently in our offices. The award has become part of ITRS’s history and our challenge is to ensure that this success is replicated in the future. In order to achieve this we will need to continue to focus on clients, products and staff.”
Ian Campbell OBE, Chairman of the Judges and Former Director of the Institute of Export added: “Excellent companies, such as those honoured by the International Trade Awards, continue to show the country, the media and our political masters that UK business and industry are still world-beaters in many fields. International Trade is delighted to have the opportunity, annually, to reward and show off these great British companies.”
Follow this link for information and to enter the International Trade Awards sponsored by Santander Corporate Banking :- http://www.internationaltrade.co.uk/awards.php?SID=45
