EAST OF ENGLAND

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

AirSense Technology Hitchin, Hertfordshire. Designs and makes smoke detection equipment.

Anglian Water International Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. Water, wastewater and environmental services.

Group Lotus Norwich, Norfolk. Car maker and engineering consultancy.

Lavenham Leisure Long Melford, Suffolk. Makes quilted horse rugs and country clothing.

Rotran Simulator Logistics Cardington, Bedford. Installs flight simulation equipment.

INNOVATION

Cambridge Neurotechnology Cambridge. Its ActiWwatch monitors clinical parameters for medical research.

Fujifilm Electronic Imaging Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. Its Imagesetter produces high quality printed material.

Norfolk Frames Marsham, Norfolk. Produces an innovative range of replacement doors.

Paradise Datacom Witham, Essex. Its Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) is used to make satellite modems.

R D Trading Witham, Essex. Disposes of redundant computer equipment.

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EAST MIDLANDS

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

BL-Pegson Coalville, Leicestershire. Makes crushing plant and equipment for quarrying, mining, construction and recycling.

Brush Electrical Machines Loughborough, Leicestershire. Manufactures air-cooled electrical turbo generators, designs, manufactures and refurbishes railway locomotives and propulsion equipment.

ClinPhone Group Nottingham. Telephone and web-based services to pharmaceutical customers.

Cummins Engine Co Daventry Northamptonshire. Designs and makes diesel and gas engines.

Markem Technologies Nottingham. Makes marking and coding equipment

Timsons Kettering, Northamptonshire. Makes web-fed printing presses for book printing

INNOVATION

ClinPhone Group Nottingham. Provides electronic trial management solutions

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LONDON

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Argus Media, London N1. Publishes information about the price and availability of crude oil, oil products, liquid petroleum, gas and electricity

BBC Worldwide London W12. Licenses programmes, develops foreign formats for overseas broadcasters

CFO Europe London SW1. Produces magazine, website and conferences for chief financial officers in Europe.

Cushman & Wakefield Healey & Baker London W1. Commercial real estate consultants

EMI Records UK London W6. Main trading division of EMI Records

Eilers & Wheeler Sales London SE1. Cheese, butter and milk powder exporters

The Female Health Company London NW10. Makes the female condom

HIT Entertainment London W1. Creates, produces, distributes and licenses TV programmes and their characters for children

HLF Insurance Holdings London EC3. Insurance broking and consultancy services.

Hammersmith Medicines Research London NW10. Assesses potential new medicines for the international pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.

LIFFE (Holdings) London EC4. Contract trading

Linklaters London EC2 Y8HQ. Advises companies, financial institutions and governments on transactions and assignments.

Mander Organs London E2. Makes, repairs and restores traditional pipe organs.

Richards Butler London EC3. Provides legal services on banking, corporate finance, litigation, shipping, trade and commodities, commercial property and media and technology.

Herbert Smith London EC2. Provides legal advice on corporate, finance and dispute resolution matters.

Sterling International Movers Northolt, Middlesex. Removal and relocation services for executives.

Theatre Projects Consultants London NW5. Provides advice on the planning, design and construction of arts buildings, theatres, concert halls, opera houses.

Tibbett & Britten Enfield, Middlesex. Logistics and supply chain management.

INNOVATION

Eurotalk London SW6. Language tuition.

Valiant Technology London SW12. Makes "Roamer" educational robots.

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants London WC2. Raising the profile of sustainable development and corporate social responsibility.

Ormiston Wire Isleworth, Middlesex. Makes a wide range of wire products. Introduced wide range of initiatives that represent best practice for SMEs.

St George PLC Twickenham, Middlesex. Develops residential-led, mixed-use sustainable neighbourhoods on brownfield sites.

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NORTH EAST

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Bede Scientific Instruments Durham. Designs and manufactures X-ray equipment used in the semiconductor industry and in the life sciences.

Multichem Hexham, Northumberland. Makes inks for marker pens.

Novocastra Laboratories Newcastle upon Tyne. Makes immunodiagnostic reagents for clinical diagnosis and biomedical research.

INNOVATION

Elementis Chromium Stockton-on-Tees. Produces for chromic acid in a new form (CA21).

Domnick Hunter Gas Generation Division Gateshead, Tyne & Wear. Has developed a system which separates nitrogen from compressed air, avoiding the need for supplies from high-pressure cylinders or cryogenic tanks.

Variable Message Signs Gateshead, Tyne & Wear. Makes highway signs which display illuminated messages.

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Econnect Hexham, Northumberland. Resolves barriers and disputes over renewable energy projects.

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NORTH-WEST

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

BAE SYSTEMS, Land Platform Communications Blackburn, Lancashire. Designs, develops and manufactures the ROVIS intercom system for high noise platforms, such as armoured vehicles, aircraft and small boats.

EXi telecoms Warrington, Cheshire. Provides a range of support services to telecoms equipment manufacturers and operators.

iSOFT Group Manchester. Maker of patient information management system provides healthcare organisations with centralised information to the point of care.

Medeval Limited Manchester. Conducts research and development for the pharmaceutical industry.

Victrex Thornton Cleveleys, Lancashire. Makes high performance materials.

Warthog Cheadle, Cheshire. Develops computer and video games.

INNOVATION

ColorMatrix Europe Knowsley, Merseyside. Development and production of additives used in the production of plastic bottles for soft drinks.

Flexipol Packaging Rossendale, Lancashire. Development of Ripp'n'Flow easy opening bag system used in the food industry.

Garnett Farms Engineering Knutsford, Cheshire. Designer of a machine that automatically distributes cow-bedding material.

Pama & Co Kingsway, Manchester. Developer of fully portable hands-free kit, used in the operation of mobile phones in vehicles.

Shackerley (Holdings) Group Chorley. Lancashire Developer of "Framelight" glass block walling system.

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

The Co-operative Bank Manchester. Developer of management method for achieving sustainable development.

The Cumberland Pencil Co. Keswick, Cumbria. Inventor of process for the application of lacquer in the manufacture of pencils, leading to significant improvement in working conditions for employees.

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SOUTH EAST

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Abbott Laboratories Queenborough, Kent. Makes pharmaceutical products, including inhalation anaesthetics, anti-infective cardiovascular and urological products, and fine chemicals for use in pharmaceutical products manufacture.

AIRCOM International Redhill, Surrey. Supplies a PC-based software tools solution for planning, configuring and testing wireless cellular networks.

Award International Cliftonville, Kent. Develops merchandise and travel incentives.

Cognitive Drug Research Reading, Berkshire. Specialises in measuring the effects of new medicines on the mental efficiency of volunteers and patients in clinical trials.

DRS Data & Research Services Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. Makes document scanners and scannable printed forms and booklets.

Intec Telecom Systems Woking, Surrey. Development and marketing of operations support systems software for telecommunications companies.

ipTEST Guildford, Surrey. Makes production line test systems for power semiconductors.

Mabey and Johnson Reading, Berkshire. Design and manufacture of prefabricated steel bridges.

MediSense UK Abingdon, Oxfordshire. Makes biosensor products including blood glucose monitoring meters and single use disposable test strips.

Point Source Southampton, Hampshire. Makes fibre optic systems.

SEOS Burgess Hill, West Sussex. Makes visual display systems to present outside scenes in aircraft and other simulators.

Scientific Update Mayfield, East Sussex. Arranges events for the pharmaceutical, agrochemical and speciality chemical industries.

Sophos Abingdon, Oxfordshire. Develops and supplies global software solutions to detect, isolate and eliminate computer viruses.

A J Walter Aviation Partridge Green, West Sussex. Supplies, maintains and repairs aircraft spares.

INNOVATION

Architectural Plants Horsham, West Sussex. Pioneering techniques in growing and marketing a range of garden plants.

BAE SYSTEMS Avionics Rochester, Kent. Development of helmet-mounted systems to display information to pilots.

Vacuum and Exhaust Management Division, BOC Edwards Crawley, West Sussex. Development of vacuum pump used in the semi-conductor industry.

Beardow & Adams (Adhesives) Bradville, Milton. Maker of BAMFutura high performance industrial adhesives that overcome problems inherent in food packaging.

BioInteractions Reading, Berkshire. Development of a biocompatible coating for medical devices which come into contact with living tissue and blood.

Elekta Oncology Systems Crawley, West Sussex. Development of Precise Table, designed for patients being treated using radiotherapy.

Gifford & Partners Woodlands, Southampton. Cintec International and Rockfield Software. Developers of "Archtec" method for the reinforcement of masonry bridges.

Penlon Abingdon, Oxfordshire. Vaporiser designer.

Point Source Hamble, Southampton. Development of an innovative diode laser system.

Sophos Abingdon, Oxfordshire. Development and updating of anti-virus software.

Toolroom Technology Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. Producer of software-based solution to a complex manufacturing problem in the gas turbine industry.

Andrew Wilkes & Associates Lymington, Hampshire. Provider of network base station services services for mobile telephone operators.

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Yell Reading, Berkshire Integrated approach to sustainable development.

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SOUTH WEST

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Air Bearings Poole, Dorset. Makes air-bearing drilling spindles for high speed and high accuracy applications, especially in printed circuit board drilling machines.

Casterbridge Tours Sherborne, Dorset. Operater of educational, concert and special interest tours to overseas schools and universities.

Centrax (TCD Division) Newton Abbot, Devon. Makes high precision gas turbine engine components and sells parts and generator sets of its own design.

Kone Service Bristol. Designs and makes elevator and escalator control equipment.

The Loop Communication Agency Bristol. Prepares a range of communications products in all formats - video, CD-Rom, web and audio - for large organisations mploying upwards of 250.

PolicyPlus International Bath. Purchases endowment policies underwritten by UK based life offices from the original policyholders and re-sells them to new investors who maintain the policies until maturity.

Tocris Cookson Avonmouth, Bristol. Makes and markets high quality research chemicals for use by life science researchers.

INNOVATION

Formpave Coleford, Gloucestershire. Designer of stormwater control system, which reduces the risk of flooding and pollution.

HoldFast Level Crossings Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Designer of level crossing system which is safer for cyclists, pedestrians, trains and motorists and reduces rail user delays

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Sustrans Bristol. Designer of the national cycle network, which provides 6,000 miles of strategic cycling and walking routes.

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WEST MIDLANDS

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

ASTRAC Warwick. Provides software licences and support services.

LTV Copperweld Bimetallic Telford, Shropshire. Maker of copper clad steel wire for use in telecommunications and automotive cables.

MICE Group Arley, Coventry. Marketing support services.

INNOVATION

McConnel Ludlow, Shropshire. Designer of EasyDrive system that improves the safety and speed of tractor-mounted arm verge mowers.

SYR Stourbridge, West Midlands. Development of integrated system for cleaning in commercial premises.

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YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

AES Engineering Rotherham, South Yorkshire. Makes mechanical seals and engineered sealing systems.

Avenue Data Systems Sutton Fields, Hull. Supplier of swing tickets and woven labels to clothing manufacturers and retailers.

Brett Harris Silsden, West Yorkshire. Maker of high quality sleeping bags and insulated clothing.

Cementation Skanska Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Specialises in all aspects of underground construction.

Farnell Electronic Components Leeds. Electronic component distributor.

Holset Engineering Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Develops and manufactures turbochargers for diesel engines primarily used in trucks, buses, construction equipment and power generation.

Panache Lingerie Rotherham, South Yorkshire. Ladies lingerie manufacturer

The Sheeting Division of Wrapid Manufacturing Bradford, West Yorkshire. Makes plastic labelling film for use in the food and drink industries.

INNOVATION

Cooper Cameron, Oil Tool Branch Leeds, West Yorkshire. Developer of product called "SpoolTreeTM 2" used for pressure control of offshore wellhead equipment for oil and gas production.

EuroDirect Database Marketing Bradford, West Yorkshire. Provider of marketing and consumer intelligence.

Holset Engineering Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. Development of turbocharger known as variable geometry for application on heavy duty commercial vehicle diesel engines.

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Interface Europe Halifax, Yorks. Makes modular floor coverings

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SCOTLAND

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

BAE Systems (Projects) Glasgow. Supplies warships and associated technology, support and spares

Bosch Rexroth Glenrothes, Fife. Designs and makes low speed high torque hydraulic motors.

Calcarb Bellshill, Lanarkshire. Manufactures carbon bonded carbon fibre thermal insulation used in high temperature and controlled atmosphere furnaces

Inverness Medical Inverness. Manufactures consumer medical diagnostic systems and blood glucose monitoring systems for diabetics.

James Johnston Elgin, Morayshire. Makes cashmere and fine woollen products for home furnishing and apparel

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WALES

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Global Sealing Technologies Flint, Flintshire. Makes plastic films and laminates for use in the medical and food industries

Hoya Lens UK Wrexham Powys. Manufactures high specification spectacle lens

Tellermate Newport, Gwent. Provides innovative cash management systems for the retail and banking industries

INNOVATION

Cinec International Newport, South Wales. With two other companies produced Archtec, which reinforces masonry bridges.

Rockfield Software Swansea. Joint award for work on Archtec manufacture

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NORTHERN IRELAND & ISLE OF MAN

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