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Avanti Communications receives the Queen’s Award for Enterprise 2015, the UK’s highest accolade for business success.

Avanti Communications, an active techUK SME member, was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise 2015. This award is the UK's highest accolade for business success, in recognition of outstanding achievement in delivering growth in exports.

Avanti won the award for International Trade, having demonstrated that our business has achieved substantial growth in overseas earnings and in commercial success (for their business size and sector) with outstanding achievements over 3 years.

Space is considered as one of the 'eight great technologies' identified by the Government which will propel the UK to future growth. According to the UK Space Agency's "The Size & Health of the UK Space Industry" published in October 2014 it adds over £11.3bn to the UK economy and has shown 15% growth since 2009. Avanti are the only space sector company to be awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise for International Trade this year.

David Williams, Chief Executive at Avanti Communications commented: "This award is a great honour for Avanti, its partners and its people. It recognises Avanti as a British pioneer in international telecommunications. Our innovations are bringing fast, affordable internet connectivity to high growth markets across Europe, the Middle East and Africa and in so doing are positively changing the lives of many thousands of people."

Established in 2002, Avanti Communications Ltd own and operate a fleet of satellites and 'Earth Stations' which deliver high speed data communications across the globe. It wins the Queen's Award for International Trade for outstanding overseas earnings growth of 582% over the last three years, resulting in exports rising as a percentage of turnover from 36% to 76%. The company continues to grow and invest heavily in its technology in which they have a unique USP with a wholly owned satellite delivery mechanism to service large areas of the globe. The company strategy addresses markets and how technical and cultural barriers are being addressed.

More information on Avanti can be found here.

Further information about techUK's Communications Infrastructure Programmeand Satellite Applications and Services is available here.

The Queen's Awards for Enterprise are the UK's most prestigious business awards, given only to companies or individuals who are outstanding in their field. Previously known as the Queen's Awards to Industry, the first Awards were given in 1966.

This year there is a total of 141 business winners: 105 for International Trade, 24 for Innovation and 12 for Sustainable Development.