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Download this reportQueen’s Awards 2009
Inside this issue
• Many winners in manufacturing despite recent falls in output
• The Hay Festival goes global
• Extension of product life-cycles has become a popular green strategy - -
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Reasons to be cheerful reach a record
The list of winners of the annual Queen’s Awards for Enterprise is a timely reminder that a huge range of businesses are devising innovative products and selling them around the world.
Soup to nuts – and bolts
John Reid & Sons, the Dorset steel construction company has developed a reputation for its design and manufacture of steel structures.
‘Refining the wheel’ brings its rewards
Since the invention of the wheel, engineers have been struggling to make rotary motion more efficient. A technical breakthrough that maintains the traditions of this vital endeavour has given an impetus to sales at AESseal
No longer mistaken for a sandwich
When Peter Florence started his small literary festival 22 years ago in the Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye, he did not envisage reproducing it in Latin America.
Grasping the entrepreneurial mindset
How much difference can one person make? Quite a lot, the Queen’s Awards decided six years ago, when it launched awards for up to 11 individuals a year who have had a significant impact in promoting business and entrepreneurship
Greenness designed in
The modest 10 in the Sustainable Development category of the 2009 Queen’s Awards for Enterprise suggests that green issues have yet to be adopted widely by UK companies
