Wireless Innovation Ltd is delighted to announce that is has been named as a winner of the “Queen’s Award for Enterprise” in International Trade.

The Company works with its clients to provide ‘turnkey’ solutions that utilise a portfolio of our services. The Company addresses industries which need reliable communications to remote sites e.g., Renewable Energy, Water, Electricity, Gas monitoring and sustainable Forestry markets, The Company offers a comprehensive after sales support service, which supports the largest current markets including North America.

The Queen’s Award Office announces that Wireless Innovation’s export earnings have almost tripled over the last 3 years addressing over 250 customers in over 50 countries worldwide from South America to Outer Mongolia.

Commenting on the award Commercial Director Jeff Martin, “We are delighted that the Company as a whole has been recognised with this fantastic award. Supplying into the overseas markets as a small company is a challenge in itself with small teams having to cope with supporting customers on the other side of the world in different time zones, often working late into the night solving problems for our customers. It is particularly exciting dealing with the breadth of the customer base across many industries that require reliable communication into remote locations, and the fact that the many customers rely on and look to Wireless Innovation for support of the their often critical information is a fantastic show of faith in our team and service packages.”

The Directors of Wireless Innovation would also like to thank all of our loyal customers and everyone who has been involved in our success over the last 5 years, the company looks forward to continuing to support our customers with our satellite and radio services in the future and in particular with the exciting launch of our new Global services that will continue to build upon the success to date.

DOWNING Street, no less, sought the advice of Gloucestershire business Wireless Innovation Ltd.

Keen to keep its finger on the pulse of the issues facing small and medium-sized businesses Gordon Brown’s team invited four South West companies to the gathering.

It is another feather in the cap of Churcham-based Wireless Innovation, which formed after a management buy-out in 2004.

“We are seeing a continuing expansion to our overseas business. The result is we have found ourselves working closely with the UKTI (UK Trade & Investment) to help break into markets overseas. As a result of this we have been invited to meet with the Prime Minister to talk about how the Government can support small and medium-sized businesses,” said Phil Rouse, managing director of Wireless Innovation.

Graham Symonds, senior international trade adviser for the UKTI , said: “We nominated Wireless Innovation because we thought they were a very good example of the type of innovative company that exists in the South West.”

He added: “Wireless Innovation is unique in many ways. It offers a very flexible service which is very hard to deliver in its particular markets. It can take a problem and come up with solutions for clients.

“But in terms of the challenges it faces, they are very similar to those faced by many small and medium-sized companies.”

Wireless Innovation Ltd is focused on delivering satellite and Wireless services to businesses, particularly utility companies, Renewable energy, and local Government organisations.

“As an example we have managed to secure major contracts with one of the largest wind energy assesment companies in the world in the United States. Not only do they buy our hardware but we supply the services as well. We have hundreds of clients in 60 countries now,” said Mr Rouse.

“One of the key aspects of our success is the understanding of the clients requirements and delivering a high quality service, with our support team at the end of the phone or e mail even on Christmas day, it makes a huge difference in ensuring the services are second to none” said Tony Martin, technical director of Wireless Innovation.

“We also have customers in the Canadian logging market. We have our products out in the field helping in the communications & logistics of harvesting the trees in the remote areas of the renewable forests.

“I think our message to Westminster will be about the help UKTI has been. There has been a sea-change in the way it approaches things and how it helps SMEs. It is much more streamlined. There is much less bureaucracy, but there is still a lot to be done, especially in these challenging times.”

In addition, with the help of the UKTI, the firm’s commercial director, Jeff Martin, and Tony Martin are due to visit the British Embassy in Washington  to begin the planning for the next phase of our export growth into North America.

Because of these emerging and growing markets the firm now employs 17 staff and since 2006 has doubled its turnover.

See the team here.