Celebrations at Staffordshire communications company awarded King's Award for Enterprise
There have been celebrations at a big-hearted Black Country communications company which has been awarded the UK's top accolade for businesses.
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Hednesford-based Mobell Communications was among 12 top achieving firms in the West Midlands named as recipients of the prestigious King's Award for Enterprise on Tuesday May 6.
The company, which operates from a disused coalmine site, was recognised in the international trade category of the awards in recognition of its impressive growth which has seen turnover double in three years.
Director Vince Owen said: "We're just delighted. It's a real honour to have the King's Award for International Trade."
Mr Owen's uncle Tony Smith founded the company in 1989 - taking on premises in Hednesford on a disused coalmine site and it has grown into a family of brands dedicated to providing travellers with connectivity solutions, with the proceeds of the business invested into charitable causes that help disadvantaged children.
Mr Owen said: "It's a really unusual story."
The company, based in Walkers Rise off Rugeley Road, began renting cutting edge cellular phone technology in the 1980s to businesses that needed to keep connected from hard-to-reach locations.
Today it provides a suite of global connectivity solutions, including specialised services which allow long and short term travellers to Japan, plus Japanese speakers in the USA, to keep in touch with home through a network that supports them in their native language.
