Peter Brotherhood Wins Prestigious International Trade Award
24 February 2005
Peterborough-based engineering company Peter Brotherhood Ltd is celebrating after scooping the prestigious International Trade award at the 15th anniversary East of England Business Awards held on Tuesday 22 February.
The region's foremost and longest-running business awards are sponsored by UK Trade & Investment, Eversheds, East of England Development Agency (EEDA), English Partnerships, Lloyds TSB Corporate and Deloitte.
Peter Brotherhood's managing director, Stephen Fitzpatrick, and non-executive director John Kempster attended the awards ceremony at the University Arms Hotel in Cambridge where it was announced that the company had won the International Trade award. They were presented with the competition's trademark Steuben crystal obelisk.
The guest speaker at the ceremony was Professor Sir David King, chief scientific adviser to the UK Government. In a wide-ranging address, Sir David highlighted the role that UK manufacturing must play in improving the country's competitiveness on the global stage.
He also mapped out his vision for the creation of a 'Golden Triangle,' harnessing the innovative capacity of centres such as Cambridge, Oxford and Bristol and the financial muscle of London to build the next generation of UK-owned hi-tech heavyweights.
Peter Brotherhood joins an elite group of the region's most successful companies that were recognised at the event. These include Bluetooth chip specialist, Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR), Plastic Logistic, which is developing printable plastic electronics and Astron, a data and document management company.
"We are delighted to have been presented with this prestigious award," said Stephen Fitzpatrick. "It recognises the immense work that staff at Peter Brotherhood has put into designing, manufacturing and servicing world class products and in setting up and supporting international sales channels."
Peter Brotherhood has been assisted with developing its overseas trade by the Government organisation, UK Trade & Investment. It helped the company take the first step to winning a £3 million contract to supply a steam turbine for a green power plant in Queensland, Australia last year.
Discussions on the project started at a presentation made by the company at the British High Commission in Sydney in 2001. UK Trade & Investment helped to organise the event, which was aimed at high-level executives within a number of top energy companies in Australia.
