Less than three years since setting up business, mobile gamesstudio Neon Play have won a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the
“Innovation” category.
Neon Play, based in Cirencester, Gloucestershire have achieved
nearly 50 million downloads in the three years since they launched in June
2010. And 15 of their mobile games have had over one million downloads,
including games such as Flick Football, Paper Glider, Traffic Panic London and
Bravo Force: Last Stand.
The Queen's Awards for Enterprise recognises outstanding
achievement by UK businesses in the categories of Innovation, International
Trade and Sustainable Development.
Neon Play is the first UK mobile game studio to receive a
Queen’s Award.
Awarded annually on 21st April, to coincide with Her
Majesty the Queen’s birthday, candidates are judged to a demanding standard and
must demonstrate the highest levels of excellence in each category. The award
will be formally conferred by a grant of appointment, which will be presented
to Neon Play by Dame Janet Trotter, the Lord Lieutenant of Gloucestershire
later in the year. This will be followed in July by CEO Oli Christie and CTO
Mark Allen meeting the Queen at Buckingham Palace.
On top of this, Neon Play have also recently been recognised as
one of the Top 250 “brightest and best” companies in the country by Lord Young
and Sir Terry Leahy. This has resulted in them being invited to be a founder
member of Accelerate 250, a group of companies tasked with the ambition to help
build Britain as a global centre for commercial excellence.
Oli
Christie, CEO of Neon Play commented,
“We have been lucky enough to win 12
business awards in the last year or so, but this crowns the lot and is the
cherry on top of the icing on the cake. We are hugely honoured to win a Queen’s
Award for Innovation. For such a young company in Cirencester to win this
genuinely prestigious award is a huge moment in Neon Play’s short history.”
ABOUT NEON PLAY
Based
in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom, Neon Play Ltd is a privately
held mobile games studio founded by Oli Christie. Neon Play makes iPhone and
Android mobile games. Copyright (C) 2013 Neon Play Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
ABOUT THE QUEEN’S AWARD FOR ENTERPRISE
The Queen’s
Award for Enterprise is Britain’s top honour for industry, and has been awarded
annually on the Queen’s official birthday, 21 April, since 1965.
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ABOUT ACCELERATE 250
An exclusive
community made up of the very best of British business. These are the UK’s
so-called ‘vital six per cent’ – the businesses that are creating more than
half of the nation’s new jobs by disrupting industries and creating new
markets.
The ACCELERATE
250 are chosen on the basis of superb record of achievement in their respective
fields.
www.accelerate2013.co.uk/about/accelerate-250
CONTACT:
Oli
Christie
CEO,
Neon Play Ltd
+44
1285 650 600
@neonplayoli