LA International Receives Second Consecutive Queen's Award For International Trade

LA International is proud to announce that the Company has once again won the Queen’s Award for International Trade.  The second consecutive Queen’s Award follows the previous win in 2015, presented to organisations with outstanding performance in international trade, innovation and sustainable development, recognising those businesses that make a valuable contribution to the UK economy each year.

As the UK's most prestigious business award and the highest accolade any business can receive, the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are made each year by the Queen and are awarded on the recommendation and advice of the Prime Minister, and is subject to the most detailed and rigorous application process.

Commenting on the award, our Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Paul Lukic said “I am delighted and honoured that LA International has again received this internationally recognised and highly sought after award for a second consecutive 5 year term in recognition of our contribution to flying the flag of British enterprise.

This year marks the 55^th Anniversary of the Queen’s award and we pay tribute to the role played by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh in originally establishing Her Majesty’s Awards in 1965 which led to the creation of the Queen’s Award to Industry.

The Board of Directors are privileged to accept this award on behalf of LA International and all of our staff who, with sustained effort, have continued to drive the business forward and achieve our targeted expansion”

LA International has been honoured once again for its continuous achievement and growth in International Trade by winning its second Queen’s Award for International Trade for Outstanding Continuous Growth in overseas sales over the last six years.   

LA International began trading in 1982 and today, with a turnover in excess of £250 million, is the largest specialist ICT Recruitment & Project Solutions Consultancy in the UK operating globally from the largest single site in the UK. As an approved Defence Contractor, LA International is the UK’s leading supplier of Security Cleared contract and permanent ICT resource to Her Majesty’s Government.  With a successful track record spanning over 35 years of delivering Recruitment, Managed Services and Project Solutions, LA International has been at the forefront of providing innovative ICT, Transformation and Project/Programme Management services and solutions to a broad range of clients, in over 90 countries, across 5 continents, ranging from SMEs to some of the largest and most respected global brands across Government, Defence, Health, Education, Technology and Telecommunications sectors.

As a market leader within the UK Government, Security and Defence space, LA International’s well established International Division was able to draw on its UK capability and with an innovative and clear growth strategy, was able to apply this expertise to the international market to achieve significant and sustained growth. . Today, LA International is recognised as Europe’s foremost supplier of Cyber, Cloud, Software Development, IT Infrastructure, Testing and Project/Programme Management expertise to organisations where security is of paramount importance.

The growth has resulted in the significant expansion of their overseas customer base and international operations over a sustained period.  In particular, in August 2018 it became the only UK Company selected as one of ten Prime Contractors to NATO for the supply of all IT and Professional Services across NATO programmes.

Jamie Davies, Sales Director, said “to receive the Queen’s Award once is outstanding, but twice is exceptional and is testament not only to our long-term European growth strategy, strong client retention and new business performance, but in particular to the passion and commitment of our staff that have worked so hard to deliver these results.”

Scott Henry, Managing Director, commented “the Queen’s Award is exceptional and unique, we are proud and honoured to have our Monarch working hand in hand with UK business for the benefit of all citizens”.  

Paul Martin, Financial Director said “The Queen’s Award is testament to our strong business model and our ability to generate year on year organic growth in varying market sectors delivering strong underlying financial performance and sustained growth despite uncertain economic conditions.” 

Winning the Queen’s Award for the second successive term cements LA International’s position, having been consistently recognised as the benchmark in its industry, regularly appearing in the Sunday Times International Top Track, winning a number of prestigious accolades at the Recruiter Awards for Excellence, including being named Best Public Sector Recruitment Company, receiving the ‘Winner of Winners’ Gold Award and being voted UK’s Best IT Recruitment Company three times.