Export success brings Queen's Award

Wolfson Microelectronics has received the Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2004.

Wolfson Microelectronics has received the Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade 2004.

Wolfson's overseas revenue has trebled over the last three years, with 90% of the company's 2003 sales going to the Asia-Pacific region.

Commenting on the award, David Milne, CEO said: "We are tremendously honoured to receive this award in recognition of the hard work and dedication that all of our staff, worldwide, have put in and I am delighted to receive it on their behalf".

He continued: "We believe our international growth continues to be driven by the rapid growth in demand for a multitude of new portable entertainment devices and digital consumer products that need the high performance mixed signal interfaces we supply".

Since its formation in 1984, Wolfson has grown into an international business.

Together with its head-office in Edinburgh and newly opened design centre in Swindon, the company also has sales and technical support offices in the USA, Japan, Taiwan, China and Korea.

Wolfson successfully floated on the London Stock Exchange in October 2003 and currently has over 170 employees worldwide.

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