The Queen's Awards Magazine 2022

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INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Bradman Lake is a leader in designing and manufacturing packaging machinery through to fully integrated packaging technology for the food, consumer, pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors. From primary distribution and feeding systems, flow wrapping, roll wrapping, bakery slicing and bagging, to secondary robotics and cartoning, to tertiary case packing, shrink wrapping and palletising, Bradman Lake’s solution-based approach is gained from thousands of installations around the world. The Bradman Lake Group has been flow wrapping products since 1948, cartoning products since 1969, and case packing since 1966. Bradman Lake operates two manufacturing plants in the UK and one in the USA, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of the British engineering and industrial group, Langley Holdings plc. “We are incredibly proud to receive this extremely prestigious award,” said John Marlee, Bradman Lake Managing Director. “The Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the category International Trade affirms our commitment to continuous product innovation to meet the demands of today’s fast-moving consumer markets worldwide and to our close relationships with our multi-national customers. “Congratulations and thank you to all our Bradman Lake Group

Product handling and packaging machinery

employees, everyone within the organisation has had a part to play. Thanks also go to Langley Holdings, our parent company, who have supported Bradman Lake since acquiring the business in 2007. We have come a long way together.” BRADMAN LAKE GROUP Common Lane North, Beccles, Suffolk NR34 9BP Tel: +44 (0)1502 470500 • info@bradmanlake.com www.bradmanlake.com Bradman Lake Group @bradman_lake company/bradman-lake-group BradmanLakeGroup vimeo.com/bradmanlake

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Christie International Ltd

Christie International is honoured and proud to have won the prestigious Queen’s Award for International Trade 2022. Christie International Ltd was established in 2002 and is based in South Woodchester near Stroud in Gloucestershire. It provides a complete export management service for UK food and non-food SMEs who do not have a dedicated export department of their own. Over the past twenty years it has experienced many challenges, including global financial meltdowns, tackling import barriers and tariffs, battling significant exchange rate fluctuations, geo-political instability and the more recent issues arising from Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic.

Christie International exhibiting at Foodex Japan in 2018

International Trade for Outstanding Short-Term Growth in overseas sales over the past three years.

Over the three years to November 2020 its overseas sales have grown by 65%. All sales are to overseas markets and have grown on average by almost 30% per annum. In 2020 sales were made to more than 30 countries, including UAE, South Africa, USA, Malaysia, Turkey, and Liberia. The company wins the Queen’s Award for

CHRISTIE INTERNATIONAL LTD Frogmarsh Mill, South Woodchester, Stroud,

Gloucestershire GL5 5ET Tel: +44 (0)1453 874170

sales@christie-international.com www.christie-international.com

Christie International exhibiting with their local distributor in Malaysia 2019

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