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Company Description in the ‘List of Winners’ preceeding the section, for checking: Viper Innovations Ltd Viper Subsea designs, develops and supplies products and asset integrity management services for subsea control and distribution systems in the offshore oil and gas industry Co pany Description in the ‘List of Win ers’ prece ding the section, for checking: Vitabiotics Ltd Leading producer of vitamin and mineral supplements including brands Pregn c r and Wellman
Since its foundation in2007, Viper Innovations (previouslyViper Subsea) has established itself as one of the subsea oil andgas industry’smost innovative companies and an example of British engineeringprowess. A culture of continual investment inResearch andDevelopment (R&D) has resulted ina series of innovativeproducts, with 16patents already led. Approximately 30%of all engineering e ort is invested inR&Dactivities. During this time the company has developed a range of innovative products and services for the subsea oil and gas Viper Innovations Ltd
the client of an estimated £10m. The company has enjoyed over 40% growth on average year-on-year since foundation. Over 80% of the company’s product and service sales are in export, with products installed as far a eld as Brazil, Norway, Germany, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Vietnam, USA, Australia, and Indonesia. All R&D, development andmanufacture takes place in the UK, and such is the ongoing growth of the business that the number of sta , which currently stands at around 51, is expected to rise signi cantly in the next few years. Viper Innovations is a company with ambition and is currently preparing to direct much of its technology and services into other markets, including rail. The company’s products and services have proven invaluable within the subsea oil and gas industry, and other industries will soon bene t from Viper’s expertise in innovation. VIPER INNOVATIONS LTD Unit 3AMarine ViewO ce Park, 45MartingaleWay, Portishead, Bristol BS20 7AW • Tel: +44 (0)1275 787878 enquiries@viperinnovations.com www.viperinnovations.com Z @ViperSubseaUK F Viper Subsea Pregnacare tablets during pregnancy signi cantly improved the nutritional status of pregnant women and had a positive e ect on their birth outcomes. The study of over 400 newly pregnant women was carried out by the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition at London Metropolitan University and the Homerton Hospital. This was the rst ever reporting of clinical ndings in a study performed in either the UK or developed world showing that supplementing with a speci c multivitamin supplement helps reduce the number of SGA infants born. (BJN (2010), 104, 437-445) Vitabiotics has manufactured innovative healthcare products for over 40 years and the range includes some of Britain’s leading supplement brands such as Wellman, Wellwoman, Osteocare, Perfectil and Menopace. This marks the third Queen’s Award that Vitabiotics has received, following awards for International Trade in 2003 and 2008.
system failure and loss of oil and gas production. Until the development of V-LIFE there had been no solution to this problemother than replacement of subsea electrical equipment at signi cant cost for oil eld operators running into £millions. Since its launch in 2013, V-LIFE has enjoyed global success, with a signi cant number of operators bene tting from the technology. The rst North Sea
industry that allow operators to better manage their assets in extremely challenging environments. The multi-award-winning V-LIFE Electrical Insulation Resistance Improvement System is a key example of Viper Innovations’ development expertise, delivering a solution to the inevitable problemof
installation of V-LIFE has now reached uninterrupted deployment of over four years, delivering savings for
reduction in electrical insulation resistance in subsea signal and control systems that ultimately leads to
Vitabiotics Ltd
The rst ever vitamin company to receive a Queen’s Award for Innovation Vitabiotics is the UK’s overall number one vitamin and nutrient supplement VMS Company and is now the rst British business to receive a coveted Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation for its vitamin research. This has been awarded for the development of its Pregnacare range and in recognition of the ground breaking, highly successful, Pregnacare clinical research. Spearheading the innovation with world renowned scientists The development of the Pregnacare range originated from a continuous scienti c research programme led by Professor Arnold Beckett OBE (Chairman of Vitabiotics for 18 years) and his former student Dr Kartar Lalvani OBE (Founder of Vitabiotics).
conception, pregnancy and foetal development, as well as breast-feeding and post-natal health. Pregnacare is a brand leading British innovation which has bene tted mums and babies for over 25 years – its research innovation has led the world in the new eld of preconceptual nutrition. Landmark clinical research conducted in the UK In April 2010, a landmark in research was achieved as the British Journal of Nutrition published a world
rst clinical trial, showing that Pregnacare tablets reduced the number of small-for- gestational-age (SGA) infants (low birth weight for time of birth) relative to the placebo. The results of this gold standard trial showed that taking
Leading the eld of pregnancy nutrition Vitabiotics Pregnacare is
Britain’s number one prenatal vitamin and is the pregnancy supplement brand that is most recommended by midwives. The range provides nutritional support for
VITABIOTICS LTD 1 Apsley Way, London, NW2 7HF Tel: +44 (0)20 8955 2600 customerservices@vitabiotics.com www.vitabiotics.com n Vitabiotics Z @vitabiotics
Professor Arnold Beckett OBE and Dr Kartar Lalvani OBE
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