Yorkshire Evening Post

Nine Yorkshire companies and organisations have gained the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise.
The annual awards are the UK’s top honours for business performance and are awarded in the categories of international trade, innovation and sustainable development.
All nine of the businesses will be presented with the award at their premises by one of the county’s Lord Lieutenants and three employees from each of the business award winners will be invited to Buckingham Palace.
The roll of honour in this year’s awards is:
Sustainable Development: Rockware Glass Ltd, Knottingley, the UK’s largest manufacturer of glass packaging containers for food and beverages.
St Gemma’s Hospice, Moortown, Leeds. Gained the award based on its excellence in leadership and management of hospice care.

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Innovation: Hainsworth Protective Fabrics, Pudsley, won the award for the development of a new protective fabric system, TI-technology.
Kodak Polychrome Graphics, Morley, won the award for the introduction and continuous improvement of technology which allows printing plates to be produced directly from computer files.
McCain Foods Ltd, Scarborough, who for over 20 years has championed innovation in British kitchens with convenient food to fit in with busy lifestyles.
Zetechnics, Kirbymoorside, York, won the award for the development of the Jupiter Subsea Control system for remote controlled vehicles on subsea wellheads.
International Trade: History and Heraldry, Rotherham. Designs and manufactures gifts. J Marr (Seafoods), Hessale, near Hull, an international fish trading company, specialises in sourcing shipment and sale of frozen fish from Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to markets in West Africa, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Far East. Turner and Townsend International, Horsforth, which provides a full ranges of construction and management consultancy services.
St Gemma’s Hospice is the city’s only independent hospice and the UK Charity of the Year.
The official summing up said: “St Gemma’s Hospice gains the Award based on its excellence in the leadership and management of hospice care. The hospice plays a major role in developing and disseminating best practice both locally and further afield.”
Hospice chief executive and director of nursing Steve Kirk said: “Although St Gemma’s Hospice is a charity rather than a private company, we nevertheless owe it to the community which we serve and which sustains us, to strive for the highest standards in everything that we do.
“This award recognises the achievements of all members of the organisation in reaching these standards – staff, supporters and volunteers alike.”

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