From the hills to the vales of the Cotswolds, companies are exporting into some of the hottest sectors and industries across the world.
Throughout 2014 we heard from lots of Cotswold companies telling us how much they export, so we’re kick-starting 2015 by finding out a bit more. The result is spread over the following eight pages.
This isn’t a list of the companies that export the most. Producing just another list would be too easy, so we told our uber research team at Cotswold Life to dig deeper and go the extra mile, just like the companies they were researching. The result is big businesses along with small, quirky companies and established UK businesses starting to grow their markets abroad. This gives a better flavour of the breadth of exporting from a wide range of sectors building new markets for themselves globally. We hope it will inspire other businesses to expand their horizons too.From car manufacturers to engineering and design companies, paper manufacturers, software distributors and beauty product manufacturers, they’re all introducing Cotswold innovation and production to worldwide markets.
• Adey Professional Heating Systems
Gloucester Road, Cheltenham GL51 8NR
Exporting to 8 countries
£50m turnover
5% of turnover attributed to exports, & growing month on month
Extensive range of domestic and commercial MagnaClean filters and chemicals for the maintenance and protection of central heating and cooling systems.
• AGD Systems
White Lion House, Gloucester Road, Cheltenham GL51 0TF
Exporting to 35 countries
over £6m turnover
15% of turnover attributed to exports
Delivers non-intrusive radar detection for highways monitoring and enforcement internationally. Increased interest and budget allocation from governments for road infrastructure development.
• Auger Torque Europe Ltd
Hazleton, Cheltenham
GL54 4DX
Exporting to 50 countries
£10m turnover
85% of turnover attributed to exports
A Queens Award winner. Designs and manufactures a range of attachments for excavators, tele-handlers and truck cranes. The expanding product range includes earth drills, augers, trenchers, hedge trimmers, log splitters, stump planers and more.
• Electrocomponents plc
International Management Centre, Oxford Business Park, Oxford OX4 2HW
Exporting to 80 countries
£1.2bn (global) Turnover
Turnover attributed to exports: not disclosed
Through its brands of Allied Electronics and RS Components Electrocomponents is the world’s leading high service distributor for engineers. RS is the leading distributor in the UK, Europe and Asia Pacific, while Allied is ranked third in North America.
• Avon Metals Ltd
Ashville Road, Gloucester, GL2 5DA
Exporting to 50 countries
£50m turnover
50% of turnover attributed to exports
Exports a combination of manufactured and traded metals and alloys including aluminium master alloys, aluminium casting alloys, ferro aluminium, minor metals and scrap (including aluminium, titanium, nickel alloys, cobalt alloys).
• Euro Collimators Ltd
T Booth Works, Elmstone, Hardwicke, GL51 9TB
Exporting to 14 countries
£170,000 turnover
100% of turnover attributed to exports
Designs and manufactures collimators for the world scientific community. Products: soller, radial, diverging, double diverging, converging, honeycomb & straw collimators. Supplies Boron and Gadolinium neutron absorbers.
• BladeRoom Group Ltd
Stella Way, Bishops Cleeve, Cheltenham GL52 7DQ
Exporting to over 10 countries
£22m Turnover
25% of turnover attributed to exports
Fabricates and deploys energy efficient, modular data centres worldwide, providing a scalable method to quickly develop large data centre sites through utilising its factory assembled approach.
• Exact Logistics
Dunchurch Trading Estate, London Road, Rugby CV23 9LN
Exporting to 4 countries
£2m turnover
60% of turnover attributed to exports
Enables German hauliers to improve their efficiency and offer their customers cost-effective and reliable deliveries throughout the UK from one pallet to a full trailer load.
• Cotek Papers Ltd
Draycott, Moreton in Marsh, GL54 9JU
Exporting to 35 countries
£12m turnover
40% turnover attributed to exports
Leading B2B manufacturer of specialist release paper and film, concentrating on two side and differential silicone coatings produced on solvent free coating machinery. Specialises in accurate, stable silicone release coatings on all types of paper, PET, HDPE or PP film.
• Flightline Support Ltd
Lakeside Industrial Park, Cotswold Dene, Standlake, Oxfordshire OX29 7PL
Exporting to 90 countries
£8.5m turnover
76% of turnover attributed to exports
Manufacturer and exporter of aircraft refuelling vehicles and systems into the Middle East, Africa, Asia and even Siberia. One of the first companies to supply into Myanmar/Burma, a contract worth £1.4m.
• Fluid Transfer International
Nailsworth Mills Trading Estate, Avening Road, Nailsworth GL6 0BS
Exporting to 80 countries
£10m turnover
83% of turnover attributed to exports
Provides total aviation refuelling solutions worldwide. Focusing on the design, development and manufacture of aircraft refuelling vehicles and systems, also marketing a range of associated fuelling components.
• GR Lane Health Products Ltd
Sisson Road, Gloucester, GL2 0GR
Exporting to 15 countries
£17m turnover
over 17% of turnover attributed to exports
Most of LanesHealth’s range of OTC medicines and food supplements are exported, including the Olbas range of decongestants, Kalms herbal stress and sleep remedies, GOPO joint health supplement and Symingtons Dandelion Coffee.
• Freeman Technology
1 Miller Court, Severn Drive, Tewkesbury, GL20 8DN
Exporting to 40 countries
turnover: not disclosed
85% turnover attributed to exports
FT4 Powder Rheometer®, a universal powder tester, uses patented dynamic methodology, automated shear cells and bulk property tests to quantify the flow properties of powders.
• Green Fuels Ltd
Unit 18, Bamfurlong Industrial Park, Cheltenham. GL51 6SX
Exporting to 50 countries
£2m turnover
90% turnover attributed to exports
Manufactures and supplies waste to biofuel production equipment. The fuel produced is a direct diesel replacement and Green Fuels will soon be offering technology to produce bio-aviation fuel.
• Frontline Developments
Station Yard, Steventon, Abingdon, OX13 6RX
Exporting to 10 countries
£1.3m turnover
40% of turnover attributed to exports
As both a vehicle production company and individual component manufacturer Frontline has a mix of exports from complete cars to individual private owners through to small vehicle parts being sold into distributors.
• Helipebs
Premier Works, Sisson Road, Gloucester GL2 0RE
Exporting to 31 countries
£7m turnover
40% turnover attributed to exports
Designs and manufactures hydraulic and pneumatic cylinders/actuators for use in the subsea oil and gas, pharmaceutical, fatigue testing, tooling, aluminium smelting and leisure industries to latest ISO standards.
• Gantry Railing Ltd
Sudmeadow Road, Hempsted, Gloucester GL2 5HG
Exporting to over 10 countries
£12.9m turnover
80% of turnover attributed to exports
Specialises in the design supply and installation of Crane Rail Systems. Now serving a world-wide market for its products and services and considered one of the leaders in its field.
• JSP Group of Companies
Worsham Mill, Minster Lovell, Oxford, OX29 0TA
Exporting to 95 countries
£40m turnover
50% turnover attributed to exports
Europe’s leading independent manufacturer of ‘above the neck’ personal protective equipment (PPE), road safety products, and spill management and environment protection products.
• Kohler Mira Ltd
Cromwell Road, Cheltenham GL52 5EP
Exporting to over 31 countries
£126m turnover
11.8% turnover attributed to exports
Three market-leading brands; Mira Showers, Rada and Kohler UK providing a comprehensive range of bathroom and washroom solutions for both domestic and commercial environments.
• Moog Aircraft, Moog Industrial & Moog Space & Defence
Tewkesbury GL20 8NA & Cheltenham GL51 8LZ
Exporting globally
£multi billion
3 separate Groups in the Cotswolds: Moog Aircraft: primary & secondary flight control & actuation systems, Moog Industrial: industrial machine control, service, test systems & F1, Moog Space & Defence: designs & manufactures precision control valves for space satellite & small launchers.
• L-3 Technology
11 Shannon Way, Tewkesbury GL20 8ND
Exporting to 40 countries
£79m turnover
15% turnover attributed to exports
Works in partnership with defence and civil organisations to design and deliver advanced electronic warfare and cyber security systems for the protection of people, infrastructure and assets worldwide.
• Norbar Torque Tools Ltd
Beaumont Road Banbury Oxfordshire OX16 1XJ
Exporting to over 80 countries
£28m turnover
80% turnover attributed to exports
Most sales are torque control equipment for the accurate tightening of threaded fasteners, but Norbar provides specialised torque control tools for the oil and gas, renewable energy and other markets.
• Messier-Bugatti-Dowty
Cheltenham Rd East, Gloucester, GL29QH
Exporting to over 15 countries
£445m turnover
over 95% turnover attributed to exports
World leader in design, development, manufacture and support of aircraft landing and braking systems. Over 24,000 aircraft in-service worldwide fitted with its landing gear.
• Neonplay
The Old Museum, Cirencester Glos GL7 1UP
Exporting to over 160 countries
Turnover not disclosed
over 75% turnover attributed to exports
Makes iPhone and iPad games and has had over 55 million downloads from games like Flick Football, Paper Glider, Traffic Panic London and Bravo Force: Last Stand.
• MINI Plant Oxford
MINI Plant Oxford, Oxford, OX4 6NL
Exporting to over 110 countries
80% turnover attributed to exports
Plant Oxford is the birthplace and heart of MINI production. Manufactured to individual customer specifications, hundreds of MINIs leave the plant’s assembly lines daily. Plant Oxford makes the MINI Hatch, 5-Door, Convertible, Coupé and Roadster models.
• Owen Mumford
Tipping Meadow, Brook Hill, Woodstock. OX20 1TU
Exporting to 126 countries
£76m turnover
86% turnover attributed to exports
Develops pioneering medical devices for its own Owen Mumford brand and custom device solutions for the world’s major pharmaceutical and diagnostic companies.
• Oxford Cryosystems
Blenheim Office Park, Long Hanborough, Oxfordshire, OX29 8LN
Exporting to 50 countries
£4m turnover
95% turnover attributed to exports
Market-leading manufacturer of specialised scientific instruments and software for the field of low temperature X-ray diffraction serving the medical, pharmaceutical and material science sectors.
• Oxford Technologies
7 Nuffield Way, Abingdon, OX14 1RL
Exporting to 2 countries
£3.5m turnover
50% turnover attributed to exports
Extensive experience in the specification, conceptualisation, design, implementation and management of systems and processes for remote handling activities in hostile environments (primarily nuclear).
• Oxford Immunotec Ltd
94C Innovation Drive, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 4RZ
Exporting to over 50 countries
£22.5m turnover
92% turnover attributed to exports
The T-SPOT®.TB test for identification of Tuberculosis
• New Generation Laundry
Paragon House, 212 Hatherley Road, Cheltenham, GL51 6ET
Exporting to 20 countries
£30m turnover
5% turnover attributed to exports
Part of The Paragon Family of Companies, one of the largest UK laundry companies. A laundry management and consultancy company which designed, built and operates state-of-the-art laundries across the Middle East.
• Oxford Instruments Plc
Tubney Woods, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX13 5QX
Exports worldwide
£360m turnover
over 90% turnover attributed to exports
Leading provider of high technology tools and systems for research and industry. Designing and manufacture equipment that can fabricate, characterise, manipulate and analyse matter at the atomic and molecular level.
• Pan Medical
Barnett Way, Barnwood, Gloucester, GL4 3RT
Exporting to 60 countries
£2m turnover
97% turnover attributed to exports
Specialises in the design, development and manufacture of premium quality balloon catheters, stents and medical devices for the interventional radiology industry.
• Oxford Products Ltd
De Havilland Way, Range Road, Witney OX29 0YA
Exporting to 60 countries
£22m turnover
20% turnover attributed to exports
A huge range of market-leading motorcycle and bicycle parts, clothing, helmets and accessories. These are designed and developed at the company’s 100,000 sq ft Oxfordshire facility.
• Pashley Cycles
Masons’ Road, Stratford upon Avon CV37 9NL
Exporting to over 40 countries
£2m turnover over 40% turnover attributed to exports
Producing high-quality, hand-built bicycles since 1926. Pashley is the longest-established bicycle manufacturer in the UK.
• Premiere Polish Co Ltd
Oakley Gardens, Bouncer’s Ln, Cheltenham GL52 5JD
Exporting to 32 countries
£6.5m turnover
22% turnover attributed to exports
Designs, manufactures and sells a wide range of Premiere branded and private label cleaning chemicals, including concentrates, ready to use and personal care products for both trade and retail consumption.
• Severn Glocon Group plc
Olympus Park, Quedgeley, Glos GL2 4N
Exporting to 52 countries
£94m turnover
72% turnover attributed to exports
Pioneering, high-integrity valve products and associated services, predominantly for onshore, offshore and subsea operators in the oil and gas industry.
• Prima Dental Group
Stephenson Drive, Waterwells Business Park, Gloucester GL2 2HA
Exporting to 85 countries
£12.5m turnover
85% turnover attributed to exports
A world leader in the design and manufacture of dental drills and precision dental instruments, namely tungsten carbide, diamond and steel rotary products. It manufactures over 20 million drills a year.
• SLG UK
Studio 8, Montpellier Street, Cheltenham,
Exporting to 20 Countries
£18.5m turnover
20% turnover attributed to exports
Exports various types of cosmetic applicator, Velvotan - its patented self tan applicator mitt and nail polish remover wipes. These items are all made in its Gloucester factory.
• Renishaw plc
New Mills, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, GL12 8JR
Exporting to over 50 countries
£355m Turnover
93% turnover attributed to exports
Precision measurement sensors for manufacturers to make products more precisely, automate processes, reduce scrap; Products for spectroscopy, dentistry and neurosurgery, metal 3D printing machines.
• Spirax Sarco Ltd
Charlton House, Cirencester Road, Cheltenham, GL53 8ER
Exporting to 100 Countries
£689m turnover
Spirax Sarco, group company of Spirax Sarco Engineering plc, headquartered in Cheltenham, employing over 1000 people. A global network of over 1300 engineers ensures customers’ efficient and productive steam systems.
• Room 58
Eagle Tower, Montpellier Drive, Cheltenham GL50 1TA
Exporting to 49 countries
£1.5m Turnover
32% turnover attributed to exports
A digital marketing resource platform, created to protect the integrity of brands worldwide. Its platform allows companies to deliver timely, consistent, compliant and cost effective marketing campaigns across large global networks.
• Summit Medical Group
Bourton Industrial Park, Bourton on the Water, Gloucestershire, GL54 2HQ
Exporting to 44 Countries
£30m turnover
70% turnover attributed to exports
Single use, sterile medical devices and implants used in orthopaedic and general surgery.
• The Dezac Group
Dezac House, Montpellier St, Cheltenham GL50 1SS
Exporting to 35 countries
£11m turnover
54% turnover attributed to exports
Headquartered in Cheltenham with a purpose-built factory in the Forest of Dean, leading manufacturer of health, beauty and fitness products exporting throughout Europe, Asia, North & South America and Australia.
• WMP Creative
The Studio, Tubney Warren Barns, Tubney, Abingdon, OX13 5QJ
Exporting to 3 countries
£2.4m turnover
35% turnover attributed to exports
Exports creative services. Live events, film production, digital communications and exhibition design and build. Offering international support and services over the creative sector.
• Procurri
Bankside Park, 15 Love Lane, Cirencester, GL7 1YG
Exporting to 45 countries
£20m turnover
50% turnover attributed to exporting
Specialises in refurbishing and reselling enterprise IT hardware and associated infrastructure along with comprehensive parts, maintenance, end of life solutions (including disk erasure), rentals and relocation services globally.
• Penlon Ltd
Abingdon Science Park, Barton Lane, Abingdon OX14 3NB
Exports to over 90 countries
£15.8m Turnover
84% Turnover attributed to exporting
The UK headquarters and manufacturing underpin Penlon’s key areas of business; Anaesthesia, Intubation and Suction and Oxygen Therapy. Supported by a global sales and technical service team.
• Tudor Rose International
Kingfisher Business Park, London Road, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 2BY
Exporting to 63 countries
£24m turnover
100% turnover attributed to exporting
An Export Market Management company and the official export partner for many British brands including; Cadbury Biscuits, Maryland, Cathedral City, Mr Kipling, Ryvita, Whitworths and Typhoo.
• SPP Pumps
Crucible Close, Mushet Industrial Park, Coleford GL16 8PS
Exporting to 35 countries
£64m turnover
60% turnover attributed to exports
World leader in the design, manufacture and servicing of centrifugal pumping solutions for industries including; Oil & Gas, Water, Fire protection, Autoprime dewatering and transformer oil circulation.
• Williams Performance Tenders
Vogue Business Park, Berinsfield, OX10 7LN
Exporting to 30 countries
£11.3m turnover
80% turnover attributed to exports
Manufactures a range of water jet powered boats in the marine leisure sector. Our core business is in the manufacture of jet tenders where we have associations with most of the world’s leading large yacht builders who design and specify our products on their yachts.
• Quickgrind
Unit 5701 Shannon Place, Shannon Way, Tewkesbury, GL20 8SL
Exporting to 32 countries
67% turnover attributed to exports
Exports solid industrial carbide cutting tools and remanufacturing services to customers using mould and die and aluminium extrusion. Cutting tool related consultancy, and its QuickVend solution for point-of-use vending and accurate stock control.
