Queen Elizabeth Hosts a Reception for Queen's Awards 2013

Queen Elizabeth attended a reception for the Winners of the Queens Award for Enterprise 2013 at Buckingham Palace in London. Every April winners of the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are officially announced in a special Gazette supplement.

The Queen's Awards for Enterprise is an awards programme for British businesses and other organizations who excel at international trade, innovation or sustainable development. They are the highest official UK awards for British businesses. The scheme was established as The Queen's Award to Industry by a royal warrant of 30 November 1965, and individual categories have been known in the past as The Queen's Awards for Export, Export Achievement, Technology, Technological Achievement and Environmental Achievement.