He accepted the prestigious award from the Princess Royal on behalf of Modular Industries, the company he founded with his wife, Susan, in 1975 and turned into an £14 million a year business with a blue-chip customer base and a burgeoning international reputation. Under David’s direction, the privately owned Birmingham-based concern, which specialised in world-class process engineering, grew by more than a third every year for four years. At the presentation, the Princess paid tribute to the Midlands as the historical cradle of manufacturing industry and a driving business force in the UK and worldwide. The Princess Royal congratulated all the companies that had reached the finals and the
| sponsors for the concept of the award scheme, culminating in a champagne luncheon at the ICC. The main sponsors of the award were Intercity Mobile Communications and Churchill Vitners in association with Moet & Chandon. Lloyds Bank co-sponsored the overall winner’s luncheon and provided further support with British Airways and Aston University Business School. The winner received £5,000 worth of business consultancy from Lloyds Bank, a company mobile telephone network from Intercity Mobile, two tickets from British Airways to any European destination and two days for two as a guest of Moet & Chandon at the company’s chateau near the French champagne centre of Epernay |
