Glencairn Crystal Honoured with
Kings Award for Enterprise for Innovation
Scotland’s world main crystal glassware firm has been awarded The King’s Award for Enterprise – the fourth time within the firm’s historical past it has acquired this prestigious accolade.
Glencairn Crystal is considered one of just a few choose organisations nationwide to obtain a King’s Award for Enterprise.* Introduced as we speak (Tuesday 6 Might), Glencairn Crystal has been recognised for its excellence within the class of Innovation.
Based in 1981 and based mostly in East Kilbride, Scotland, Glencairn Crystal Studio Ltd is a family-owned enterprise using over 70 individuals. The corporate specialises in premium crystal and glassware for each enterprise and client markets, with unrivalled experience throughout the spirits business.
Famend for its pioneering design, craftsmanship and manufacturing, Glencairn Crystal creates luxurious, high-end bottles and decanters that includes intricate metalwork, distinctive utility processes and state-of-the-art engraving methods. It has efficiently scaled up artisan methods for business manufacturing, mixing hand-crafted artistry and ground-breaking technical innovation. By embedding world-leading invention and extremely bespoke branding into its proprietary decanters and bottles, Glencairn works with spirits firms, globally, to raise the worth of their manufacturers, showcasing, in the very best mild, the craftsmanship that has gone into each one.
For over 20 years, Glencairn Crystal has additionally produced the enduring Glencairn Glass – the primary glass designed particularly for whisky. Recognised because the official glass for whisky within the UK, and all through the whisky business internationally, it’s the world’s favorite whisky glass, utilized by tens of millions of shoppers and distilleries across the globe.
The corporate first acquired the Queen’s Award for Innovation in 2006 for the Glencairn Glass, adopted by the Queen’s Award for Worldwide Commerce in 2012 and 2017.
Scott Davidson, Glencairn Crystal’s New Product Growth Director stated: “We’re delighted to have been recognised for our work with The King’s Award for Innovation. To be granted such a prestigious award for the fourth time previously 20 years is extremely particular.
As a household run enterprise for greater than 40 years, now we have a valued staff of proficient staff who’ve innovation on the core of all the pieces we do. This award is a testomony to the fervour, creativity, and dedication of everybody right here at Glencairn Crystal, and to our mission of pushing the boundaries of what’s potential for our prospects in crystal and glass.”
The King’s Awards for Enterprise are the UK’s most prestigious awards for companies, recognising and inspiring excellent achievements in 4 classes: innovation, worldwide commerce, sustainable growth, and selling alternative by means of social mobility. The awards are given out yearly and are a extremely regarded mark of excellence for British companies.
The Award programme, now in its 59th 12 months and beforehand often called The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise, had been renamed in 2023 to mirror His Majesty The King’s need to proceed the legacy of HM Queen Elizabeth II’s by recognising excellent UK companies.
For extra details about Glencairn Crystal, go to www.glencairn.com
For extra details about The Kings Award for Enterprise, go to www.gov.uk/kings-awards-for-enterprise
* 197 organisations nationally have been recognised with a King’s Award for Enterprise and a complete of 199 Awards had been made with two firms being recognised with two Awards.
