{"id":5234,"date":"2018-04-24T15:56:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T15:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swift-cut.co.uk\/?p=5234"},"modified":"2018-10-16T10:04:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T09:04:23","slug":"global-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swift-cut.com\/usa\/2018\/04\/global-success\/","title":{"rendered":"The Queen recognises Swift-Cut&#8217;s global success with UK\u2019s most prestigious business award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swift-cut.com\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/2018-Queen\u2019s-Awards-for-International-Trade-1-1.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-15795 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/swift-cut.com\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/2018-Queen\u2019s-Awards-for-International-Trade-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"2018 Queen\u2019s Awards for International Trade \" width=\"184\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re thrilled to announce that we\u2019ve won the highly coveted 2018 Queen&#8217;s Awards for International Trade.\u00a0 The Queen&#8217;s Awards for Enterprise are awarded to businesses who excel in one of four categories: International Trade, Innovation, Sustainable Development and Promoting Opportunity.\u00a0 The International Trade Award recognises the outstanding success we have had since our mission to expand globally began.<\/p>\n<p>This award recognises our global success &#8211; in just seven years we\u2019ve expanded into over 35 countries and counting.\u00a0 We export over 80% of our business globally and we\u2019re gaining an increasingly enviable reputation in our field for our innovative approach to metal cutting &#8211; designing quality-built systems at affordable prices.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no easy feat exporting into so many countries in such a relatively short space of time, but not only did we manage to do it, we excelled at it.\u00a0 To have this recognised and rewarded by the UK\u2019s most esteemed business awards is a huge achievement &#8211; Swift-Cut has made remarkable progress internationally, representing UK manufacturing on a global scale and demonstrating the very best of British design and workmanship.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swift-cut.com\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/2018-Queen\u2019s-Awards-for-International-Trade-2-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15796 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/swift-cut.com\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/2018-Queen\u2019s-Awards-for-International-Trade-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"2018 Queen\u2019s Awards for International Trade \" width=\"649\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swift-cut.com\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/2018-Queen\u2019s-Awards-for-International-Trade-2-1.jpg 649w, https:\/\/swift-cut.com\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/2018-Queen\u2019s-Awards-for-International-Trade-2-1-600x290.jpg 600w, https:\/\/swift-cut.com\/usa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/2018-Queen\u2019s-Awards-for-International-Trade-2-1-300x145.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Swift Cut\u2019s International Global Development Director, Neil Smith is understandably delighted at the recognition.\u00a0 He said, \u201cWe are thrilled that our international growth and success has been recognised by the Queen&#8217;s Award, arguably the most prestigious business award in the UK and a testament to our product, our team and our vision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr Liam Fox, Secretary of State for International Trade recently opened our new factory and said, \u201cSuccess stories like Swift-Cut Automation are flying the flag for British quality and expertise, bringing a boost to their local economies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Much like our cutting systems, Swift-Cut is the sum of many parts and we couldn\u2019t be prouder at the efforts of our entire team to make Swift-Cut the award-winning success it is.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re thrilled to announce that we\u2019ve won the highly coveted 2018 Queen&#8217;s Awards for International Trade.\u00a0 The Queen&#8217;s Awards for Enterprise are awarded to businesses who excel in one of four categories: International Trade, Innovation, Sustainable Development and Promoting Opportunity.\u00a0 The International Trade Award recognises the outstanding success we have had since our mission to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":16209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-FullWidth.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,43,84,85,55],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-5234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-news","category-news-uk-2","category-news-usa","category-swiftnews","tag-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swift-cut.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swift-cut.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swift-cut.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swift-cut.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swift-cut.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swift-cut.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swift-cut.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swift-cut.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swift-cut.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swift-cut.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}