Three years after receiving the prestigious Queen’s Award for Innovation, Ancon’s outstanding business performance has been recognised again in 2015 with a second Queen’s Award, this time in the International Trade category.
The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are presented annually by HM The Queen for exceptional business achievements in International Trade, Innovation and Sustainable Development. They recognise only the highest levels of excellence, with Ancon now honoured in two separate categories.
Following Ancon’s first Award in 2012 for the development and commercialisation of a unique Lockable Dowel, an innovative system that has revolutionised post-tensioned concrete construction, this second Award celebrates Ancon’s phenomenal success in growing sales across new and existing export markets.
Ancon exports its wide range of high integrity steel fixings to the construction industry throughout Europe, Australasia and North America, and in selected territories of Asia and Africa. The company has almost doubled its annual export trade in the past three years, significantly increasing sales even in turbulent economies such as Greece and Russia.
Ancon impressed the Awards advisory committee with its clearly defined long term strategy to drive international sales growth, focussed on developing structural concrete fixings which meet local requirements, backed by market-specific communications, product approvals and distribution channels.
At its UK head office in Sheffield, the company operates a dedicated export team that provides the necessary language skills and product knowledge needed to support these sales and maintain excellent business relations with overseas distributors.
The Queen’s Award for International Trade will be officially conferred by the Lord Lieutenant of the County at a special ceremony to be held at Ancon’s premises later this year, with two company representatives due to attend a reception at Buckingham Palace in July, attended by HM The Queen and other members of the Royal household.
Ancon’s Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2015