FIVE outstanding Gloucestershire companies have won Queen's Award for Enterprise after displaying tremendous innovation and growing overseas sales.
A mobile games developer, world-beating engineers and a firm that builds life-changing tricycles for disabled youngsters were all honoured in the awards announced today on the Queen's 87th birthday.
Family-owned Auger Torque Europe of Hazleton, Cheltenham, won an award for international trade. The company, which has 28 staff, produces earth drill, trenching and related attachments for construction equipment and export sales.
The equipment is used by the British Antarctic Survey.
Cirencester-based Neon Play, which employs 15, won the Queen's Award for innovation for developing mobile phone games.
Chief executive Oli Christie said: "We have been lucky enough to win 12 business awards in the last year but this crowns the lot. To win this genuinely prestigious award is a huge moment in Neon Play's short history."
Renishaw, the Wotton-under-Edge metrology company, won its record-breaking 16th Queen's Award since its formation in 1973.
The latest royal accolade was for innovation with its REVO multi-sensor probing system.
Sir David Mc Murtry, chairman and chief executive of the business, that employs 2,000 in the UK, primarily in the county, said: "To receive a Queen's Award for innovation is very special."
Tomcat SNI of Brockworth, which builds bespoke tricycles for disabled youngsters, received the Queen's Award for Innovation.
Advanced Insulation, which employs 126 in Hardwicke, won the award for innovation after winning for international trade last year.
It produces insulation products for oil field extraction equipment.
