Horizon Discovery Receives the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade

23-Apr-2012 - United Kingdom

Horizon Discovery  announced it has won the Queen’s Award 2012 for Enterprise, in the International Trade category. The prestigious award is in recognition of Horizon Discovery’s outstanding achievement in export growth, having shown overall growth exceeding 360% over the three year period assessed.

Founded in 2007 and based in Cambridge, UK, Horizon has become one of the fastest growing biotechnology companies in Europe. Expanding over 100% in each year of trading, it now has 70 FTE’s working out of its research facility in Cambridge. This growth has been built upon an international customer base that includes over 100 academic research organizations and 100 biotechnology, diagnostic and pharmaceutical companies, using a direct selling and partnership strategy. Greater than 90% of Horizon Discovery sales are currently made into markets outside of the UK, including the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Singapore. Of the European market, Germany, Switzerland and Austria are Horizon’s primary sources of trade.

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