As part of the Queen’s Birthday celebrations, safety barrier manufacturers, A-SAFE, has been awarded with the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the International Trade category for the second time. This highly sought-after award is a mark of quality for British businesses and a seal of approval that speaks volumes about the company.

The Queen’s Award for International Trade cements A-SAFE’s outstanding record of exporting to a multitude of overseas markets and steep year-on-year growth in the sector. The business’s overseas sales have grown by 113% over the last three years and the proportion of sales exported has increased to 76% of total sales.

Since last winning the Queen’s Award in 2014, A-SAFE has gone from strength to strength, increasing its number of global subsidiaries by 200% and now boasting a footprint in the USA, UAE, Mexico, Russia and Japan as well as many other countries within mainland Europe.

As well as investing in new wholly owned subsidiaries around the globe, A-SAFE’s UK employees have increased by 172% since 2014, and its innovative product portfolio has also continued to evolve.
James Smith, co-owner of A-SAFE, said: “At A-SAFE we’re immensely proud of the work that we do, and it’s extremely humbling to receive a Queen’s Award for the second time. We strongly believe that our commitment to innovation and our ‘global yet local’ export strategy, giving international brands access to A-SAFE products locally, is why we’ve achieved such strong oversees growth. 

Based in Halifax, the family-run business invests heavily in research and development to ensure that its safety solutions are at the cutting-edge of innovation within the advanced workplace safety sector. The company’s knowledge is respected to such a great extent that it is the technical author of the world’s first and only official code of practice for workplace safety barriers; partnering with the BSI to create PAS 13. 

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