Chesterfield business earns rare honour of two prestigious Queen’s Awards
Chesterfield based company Imagesound has been recognised with two Queen’s Awards for Enterprise, awarded for outstanding achievement by UK businesses.
Imagesound and sister company Musicstyling provide bespoke music and messaging solutions to businesses in over 150 Countries world-wide, from retailers Co-op, Tesco, H&M, adidas and Target, hospitality including McDonald’s, Pizza Hut and Caffe Nero through to global hotel chains Marriott, Radisson and IHG.
The company’s highly responsive IMS system—designed and built in Chesterfield—received the coveted award for Innovation, delivering music, messaging and signage solutions to over 70,000 sites, detailing every song played or advertising message displayed.
This technology helped the business win its second award for International Trade with significant global sales growth across both Imagesound and MusicStyling brands.
Phil Burroughes, Managing Director of the Imagesound Group commented: “A Queen’s Award for Enterprise is amazing recognition of what the business has achieved, and we are delighted to have been one of the few businesses to be awarded two, especially as this was the first year that we have applied.”
To be eligible for the Innovation award a company must have an innovation that has not been sold before, demonstrating outstanding or continuous commercial success over a specified time frame. Imagesound was in the unique position of being able to fulfil both criteria.
Proof that that the organisation has achieved outstanding growth in overseas earnings, relative to business size and sector, was one of the key requirements for the International Trade award.
Following a reception at Buckingham Palace earlier this year the awards were formally presented by the Lord Lieutenant at Imagesound’s Chesterfield office on December 5th, 2022.
Burroughes concludes: “It is a testament to everyone’s hard work across all nine of our global offices that we have achieved two such prestigious awards. To my knowledge we are the only company in our sector to ever do so, reinforcing the dedication and expertise of our teams across the world.”
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