Delight as company honoured with King’s Award for Sustainable Development

Automotive engineering and research company HORIBA MIRA has received the royal seal of approval with a King’s Award.

On Wednesday September 11th, HORIBA MIRA were proud to welcome the Vice Lord-Lieutenant, Colonel Murray Colville TD DL, his deputy Lieutenant, Eileen Perry MBE DL, and special guests including HORIBA’s Executive Vice Chairman and Group COO Mr Juichi Saito to their headquarters in Nuneaton for a formal presentation.

The King's Awards for Enterprise, previously known as The Queen's Award for Enterprise, is an awards programme for British businesses and other organisations who excel at international trade, innovation, sustainable development or promoting opportunity. They are the highest official UK awards for British businesses.

Nuneaton’s Bermuda Industrial Estate and The Quadrant Industrial Estate.

James Davies, Chief Executive Officer of Wigley Investment Holdings Ltd, who oversaw and delivered the strategic reorganisation of The Wigley Group, said: “Under Chris’s exceptional leadership, Tetra Real Estate has a bold and exciting trajectory and I’m proud of the foundations we have laid as we near our 60th anniversary.

“Following the reorganisation of the business, my role is now to support Chris and his team – alongside our other businesses – by focusing on strategic growth and leadership. Whilst I remain passionate about land and property, the time and conditions are right to pass the baton on.”

NatWest has supported the Wigley Family for over 50 years and was fundamental in the reorganisation of its assets.

James Polo-Richards of JG Poole & Co LLP acted on behalf of Tetra Real Estate and Waterloo Capital Limited and Mark Lewis of Browne Jacobson LLP acted on behalf of NatWest.

Tetra Real Estate works across the long-term life cycle of light industrial, commercial and land interests in central England.

Guests and HORIBA MIRA team member gathered for the raising of the King's Award flag, which will fly for a period of five years. After the reading of a message from HRH King Charles III, and speeches, a plaque was unveiled and an award was presented to Declan Allen, HORIBA MIRA’s Managing Director, who received it on behalf of the entire HORIBA MIRA team.

The Midlands company received recognition from His Majesty The King with the Grant of Appointment of a King’s Award for Enterprise for their outstanding achievements in ‘Sustainable Development’, particularly in relation to their role as an enabler and catalyser of the automotive industry’s path toward net zero vehicles.

MIRA Technology Park, which has HORIBA MIRA at its heart, is helping to drive a cluster of organisations committed to reducing the carbon emissions arising from road transport across the world.

HORIBA MIRA team member, Lindsey Randle, the Stakeholder Relationship Co-ordinator at MIRA Technology Park, who has been central to many of the Park's sustainability initiatives, raised the distinctive King’s Award flag as guests looked on.