PLYMOUTH, UK - April 21, 2022 - A Plymouth company has been honoured with a Queen’s Award for Enterprise. Artemis Optical is one of 226 organisations nationally to be recognised with a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise. 

Announced today, Artemis has been recognised for its excellence in International Trade. Employing 34 people, Artemis was originally established in 1952 and nowadays specialises in technically differentiated optical thin film coatings for the Photonics industry.

Commenting, CEO Nick Hurst said, “we feel very honoured to have been selected for this award which principally recognises the efforts we have made to increase our exports in recent years but also recognises the huge effort that has been made by all our employees to design, manufacture and deliver our high-quality products which now are sold around the world.” He added “I think it is wonderful that a small west country company like ours has been honoured in this way by her Majesty  The Queen and we are very flattered to have received this recognition”.

Now in its 56th year, the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are the most prestigious business awards in the country, with winning businesses able to use the esteemed Queen’s Awards Emblem for the next five years. 

Applications for Queen’s Awards for Enterprise 2023 open on the 1st May 2022. For more information, visit The King's Awards for Enterprise: About the awards - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).