06 May King’s Award for Enterprise 2025 Shropshire winners
HM Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire, Mrs Anna Turner, is thrilled to congratulate the two Shropshire based companies that have been successful in being awarded a King’s Award for Enterprise (KAE) 2025.
The KAE competition was instituted by Royal Warrant in 1965 with the first awards being made in 1966 under the original title Queen’s Award to Industry and the awards were known as the Queen’s Award for Enterprise since 1999. Since the coronation of King Charles III the awards have been known as the king’s Awards.
There are four categories for the awards:
Innovation
International trade
Sustainable development
Promoting opportunity through social mobility
This year’s Shropshire winners are in the categories of Innovation and Sustainable Development.
Grainger & Worrall, who have previously won three Queen’s Awards for Enterprise, are based in Bridgnorth. This year they have been awarded the King’s Award for Enterprise for Innovation. The company collaborates with “blue chip” customers from all over the world to provide highly complex aluminium castings. It has long been well known in the automotive industry now its reputation is growing rapidly in defence, aerospace and infrastructure markets. Customers say, “they achieve performance and geometry from aluminium castings that no-one else can.”
Fabweld Steel Products Ltd are based in Madeley, Telford and have been awarded the King’s Award for Enterprise for Sustainable Development. They are market leaders in the design and manufacture of access covers and other fabricated steel products for the construction industry, including non-structural and structural applications.
Mrs Turner said: “The winners demonstrated yet again that Shropshire is home to so many innovative businesses and organisations and we celebrate with them their success in achieving this most prestigious business award. I am hopeful that the work Deputy Lieutenants Mandy Thorn MBE and Gill Hamer have done raising the profile of KAE in Shropshire will reap benefits with many more companies coming forward with a desire to open doors to new opportunities.”
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Winners of a King’s Award for Enterprise receive an invitation to a Royal reception, a special crystal trophy presented by the Lord-Lieutenant, the right to fly the award flag at their headquarters and use the KAE emblem in their marketing for five years and given a Grant of Appointment (and official certificate, as well as worldwide recognition as a winner.
Many congratulations to Grainger and Worrall Ltd and Fabweld Steel Products Ltd.