Precision component supplier Accu wins King Award for International Trade

Precision component supplier Accu has received a King Award for International Trade, recognizing the company’s continued outstanding growth in overseas sales.

Brockholes-based Accu – which employs more than 100 people and supplies more than 50% of the world’s top 100 manufacturers – has grown its overseas sales by 288% a year over the past six years, with overseas orders now accounting for 25% of its total sales. .

Alastair Morris, managing director of Accu, said: “Accu is honored and delighted to receive this most prestigious award and to join over 7,000 UK companies who have received royal recognition since the awards began in 1965.

“Accu exports worldwide, but we have focused our overseas growth more recently on the US, Australia and Ireland.

“Our ultimate goal is to provide fast delivery and an exceptional customer experience to all engineers, inventors and innovators around the world.”

The King’s Award for Enterprise follows a recent visit by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to the company’s new 45,000 sq ft headquarters on the former Brook Motors site.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak tours Accu’s new £1m headquarters and praises ambitious growth plans

Mr Sunak congratulated Accu on its £1m investment in UK warehouses as part of efforts to achieve same-day dispatch for many of its 500,000 components.

Mr Morris added: “We are honored and delighted that the King has recognized Accu in the International Trade category this year.

“We are an international business, but we employ a local workforce and supporting our local economy is extremely important to the way we operate.

“That’s partly why we’ve chosen to move less than a mile from our previous headquarters, because we want to continue that commitment and base our business innovation and international growth in the heart of Huddersfield.”

Recipients of the King’s Award for Enterprise will attend a reception at Windsor Castle on July 9, hosted by Her Majesty The King.