As readers will be aware, LCF Research focuses on companies seeking to achieve sustainable growth through a combination of:
a) Identification of a growing worldwide market opportunity (ideally at an early stage), and
b) provision of products and/or services which improve the productivity of their direct and indirect customers.
Such companies become net exporters and are vital to solving several of the endemic problems of the UK economy. It was therefore very gratifying to see two of the companies followed by LCF Research winning the Queen's Award for International Trade, namely Delcam and Lo-Q.