On 1st November 2024 the Lord-Lieutenant presented the King’s Award for Enterprise, for Innovation, to the amazing team at Alfred H Knight Limited in Knowsley. This family-owned global business employs 6,000 people across the world, and the Lord-Lieutenant was able to meet some of those involved in the development and ongoing deployment of their particular innovation.
The KAE was awarded for Alfred H Knight’s disruptive innovation in the digital transformation of complex inspection services in Africa’s metals and minerals sector.
This year a total of two hundred and fifty-two businesses received a King’s Award for Enterprise across the country. Of those, twenty-seven were in the North West and of those, five were in Merseyside.
The King’s Awards for Enterprise are for outstanding achievement by UK businesses in four categories: Innovation, International Trade, Sustainable Development and Promoting Opportunity (through social mobility). They are the highest awards that a business can receive in the United Kingdom.
Pictured below with the Lord-Lieutenant (left to right) are the High Sheriff Professor John Mohin, Mr. Dale Milburn Executive Director of Regeneration at Knowsley Council, the Leader of Knowsley Council Cllr Graham Morgan, Mrs. Lesley Martin-Wright DL, Mr. Thomas Walker, Chief Operating Officer of AHK, Mr. Ian Baxter, Chief Executive Officer of AHK, the Lord-Lieutenant Mr. Mark Blundell and Mrs. Julie Lawson BEM DL. Also pictured below are two members of the Knight family with the Lord-Lieutenant.
