Wiltshire firm to be presented with Queen s Award in September
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Wiltshire firm to be presented with Queen s Award in September
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Scanning pen in use WESTBURY-based accessibility tech company Scanning Pens Ltd has been honoured for its outstanding year of international trade by one of the nation’s highest awards for enterprise, the Queen’s Award for International Trade. Created in 2003 by Oxford Brookes graduates Jack Churchill (CEO) and Toby Sutton (COO), Scanning Pens is a dedicated global EdTech business providing reading support to students with reading difficulties. The company, whose head office is at Heywood House, also has a facility at Telford in the West Midlands, where it collaborates with the University of Wolverhampton. Chief executive officer Jack Churchill said: “To be recognised by the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise is the highest honour in business.
The company, based at Heywood House, near Westbury, designs software for the recruitment sector. After a quiet start to the year it found enquiries were coming in thick and fast as customers took advantage of the slow late spring and summer to revisit their technology. Co-founder Andy Jones said: “We’ve had a pretty busy summer primarily because, with Covid and lockdown, the businesses have got quieter and businesses have had time to focus on implementing systems and processes. Clients have used the downtime to prepare for the comeback. “April and May was a complete whitewash, I think it was for most people but come June, everybody realised it wasn’t going to be permanent and if they were going to come back competitive they needed to sort stuff out.