Frontier Pitts has been crowned winners of the Gatwick Diamond Business Awards International Business of the Year.
The Gatwick Diamond Business Awards acknowledges those businesses or people who have shown innovation and inspiration in their work, and have demonstrated a real commitment to this world-class region.
The winners were unveiled at the 8th Annual Gatwick Diamond Business Awards at the Effingham Park Hotel, on 17th March, 2016. The headline sponsors are Gatwick Airport, NatWest, Nestle and Vines BMW and Mini. The evening started with a pre-dinner reception sponsored by Thomas Eggar, part of Irwin Mitchell, and the evening rounded off with the an after-show party sponsored by Heart Sussex & Surrey.
When judging the International Business Award of the Year the judges looked for a organisation where the International growth has enormous benefits for the Gatwick Diamond economy. Frontier Pitts best demonstrated an international growth strategy that has achieved outstanding levels of sales, profit and market share improvement.
Stephen Gaffer, Technical Sales Director of Frontier Pitts commented 'Frontier Pitts is delighted to be named Winner of International Business of the Year at the Gatwick Diamond Business Awards. Frontier Pitts manufactures security gates, automatic barriers, bollards and turnstiles in the heart of the Gatwick business region. This equipment is installed throughout the UK and exported around the world, including the Middle East, Europe, Australia, Russia and the Far East. This award recognises the counter terrorist equipment which is produced in Gatwick area using local skills, mitigating potential threats internationally, and protecting our world.
Paul Gresham, Chairman of the Gatwick Diamond Initiative said "This company demonstrated consistent international sales growth across several years in many difficult and challenging foreign markets.
"It was good to see Gatwick Diamond designed and engineered products meeting the most stringent of tests, beating competitors.
The global political situation will ensure that this company continues to strengthen its market lead around the world."
Frontier Pitts is a British manufacturer of security gates, automatic barriers, road blockers, rising and static bollards, pedestrian control gates and turnstiles.
The Anti Terra Hostile Vehicle Mitigation (HVM) range has been successfully impact-tested in accordance with the new International IWA14 and the British PAS68 specifications.
Over the last two years Frontier Pitts has won multiple projects in the Middle East, including project managing and installing numerous IWA14 and PAS68 impact-tested Terra sliding gates and Terra manual barriers in the oil fields of Iraq, providing hostile vehicle mitigation to critical national infrastructure.
With more than 20 years of experience in Europe, the Middle East, the Far East and recent installations in Australia and Russia, the company is at the forefront of the supply chain to most of the government states and critical infrastructure sites.
Despite all the challenges and difficulties of working in hostile environments, Frontier Pitts' team of engineers installed all the equipment, whilst training local personnel, further cementing Frontier Pitts as a top name in the global HVM market.
