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No Logo required Andy Kerr, CEO of CMS Window Systems, said: “Winning a Queen’s Award for Enterprise is a tremendous honour, and I am delighted for all our sta and the management team who have worked so hard to make CMS the stand-out business it is today. We’ve consistently shown that sustainability is not a fad or a ‘nice to have’, but it can be fundamental to a successful business when approached with total commitment.” The Queen’s Award for Enterprise win is the latest prestigious recognition for CMS in respect of sustainability. It also picked up the Gold award in the International Green Apple Awards for Environmental Best Practice 2017 and triumphed against 27 other EU countries to win the ‘management’ category for medium and large companies in the European Business Awards for the Environment 2016-17. Based at Cumbernauld near Glasgow, CMS Wind w Systems employs more than 245 people at its 15-acre main manufacturing and recycling facility and HQ, plus its branch in Kirkcaldy. CMS WINDOW SYSTEMS 10 C isteal Road Castlecary, Cumbernauld G68 0FS Tel: +44 (0)1324 841398 • Fax: 44 (0)1324 841 282 info@cmswindows.com • www.cmswindows.com
The company generates virtually no land ll waste thanks to its extensive in-house recycling facilities.
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“Winning a Queen’s Award for International Trade has undoubtedly enhanced our reputation and standing in the world,” says Cygnet Group CEO Matthew Kimpton-Smith. Cygnet Group is an advanced engineering and manufacturing business based in Cheshire. Founded in 1974, Cygnet Group operates three businesses Cygnet Group
CONVERSION RATE EXPERTS (CRE) is the world’s largest agency that focuses solely on conversion rate optimisation (CRO) – a term that it coined in 2007. It has measurably grown hundreds of businesses in over 80 di erent sectors, including Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google and Dropbox – plus many smaller businesses. The company carries
Cygnet Group’s global business has bene ted from winning a Queen’s Award
Conversion Rate Experts’ management team celebrating their win.
providing solutions to some of the fastest-growing markets in the world. Cygnet Texkimp makes up 80% of Cygnet Group and manufactures specialist machinery to handle and process advanced materials, including carbon bre, for the aerospace, automotive, wind energy and industrial sectors. The company is a global authority in bre handling and converting with an extensive programme of R&D and a thriving apprenticeship scheme. SECC Oil & Gas is an IP-led advanced engineering company serving the international oil and gas market with a portfolio of highly innovative, patented connector technologies. Perpetual Partnerships is a technical recruitment business using the highest levels of market intelligence and service to transform the way the engineering, manufacturing, built environment, and energy industries recruit technical sta . CYGNET GROUP SwanHouse, KimptonDrive, o WinchamLane, Wincham, Northwich, Cheshire CW9 6GG • Tel: +44 (0)1606 810550 • Fax: +44 (0)1606 338747 info@cygnet-group.org • www.cygnet-group.org
out experiments – A/B-tests – on its clients’ websites. It has over 55 testimonials and video testimonials, many of which describe how CRE more than-doubled the clients’ sales. CRE’s business depends on being able to do something that’s almost impossibly hard: to measurably improve the world’s most sophisticated websites. Its award for innovation was for creating a methodology that is scienti c and that consistently makes websites better. Although CRE is based in the UK, it has a multinational team, working remotely across seven di erent countries. The company serves clients across 22 countries in nine languages. Seventy-six percent of its revenue comes from overseas, making it relatively immune to Brexit. CONVERSION RATE EXPERTS 222 Regent Street, London, W1B 5TR • Tel: +44 (0)203 368 6212 info@conversion-rate-experts.com • www.conversion-rate-experts.com conversion-rate-experts
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