4fx Healthcare, a Nottinghamshire business employing just three people, has been recognised alongside 150 businesses earning this years Queens Award for Enterprise.
4fx was recognised for its innovative nasal aspirator which removes congestion from babies’ noses, and are the joint smallest business winner in 2008, alongside North Yorkshires British Horse Feeds.
Other SMEs picking up awards are Authentix, for its product authentication service to the World Bank to prevent counterfeiting, television sound effects company Audio Network and Green Works a London based business in recycling, re-using and re manufacturing office furniture.
John Eversley of Tyne & Wear Enterprise Trust, is one of several individual winners this year and picks up a lifetime achievement award, as recognition of his thirty years supporting enterprise in the North East of England following the decline of the coal and shipbuilding industries.
Prime minister Gordon Brown congratulated the winners, saying:
“Queen’s Award winning companies are standard-bearers for the very best of British business, These firms embody the spirit of enterprise and innovation that is so vital to the future of Britain’s economy. Whether large or small, every one of this year’s winning organisations has achieved outstanding success in its field. I congratulate them all on their diverse and remarkable achievements.”
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