Trilogy Wins 2009 Queen's Award for International Trade

Issued 21st April 2009

Trilogy, a world class supplier of voice communications technologies for the Defence and Homeland Security sector wins 2009 Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade. Queen's Award for International Trade.

Trilogy wins the Award for increasing its exports by 88% over three years, which represented 80% of total sales. In addition Trilogy now sells to customers in over seventy countries and has invested in skilled people increasing its workforce by over a third in the same period.

Mike Knight, Chief Executive Officer of Trilogy commented: “Winning the Queens Award for International Trade is testament to the dedication and effort of our staff in expanding our international customer base and the remarkable relationships we have developed with 7 of the top 10 prime defence contractors.”

Over the last three years, Trilogy has seen the most significant growth in its operations in the US defence market with the inclusion of its Mercury ES system as an integral part of a major US Air Force programme.

Trilogy’s Mercury ES provides defence and intelligence functions with a high-capacity, distributed communications capability that enables multi-level and cross domain security. Unprecedented in terms of quality, sophistication and speed Mercury ES makes information sharing and decision making across organizations easier than ever.

Mercury ES operates on LANs/WANs over terrestrial or satellite-based IP networks. Users can participate in multiple communications simultaneously - including direct, conference and monitor-only. In addition, radios, telephones and other technologies can be linked to the system to provide users with a unified communications control panel.

About Trilogy

Trilogy has supplied audio communications equipment to customers in more than seventy countries since 1986. The company was originally formed to design and build video and audio infrastructure equipment for the television and radio broadcast market. It continues to serve this market but now also offers its products to a wide array of customers in defence, emergency management, training and simulation, oil and gas, gaming, and other industries.

Trilogy counts some of the world's best known names in broadcast and defence among its customer base. These include Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, L3, Lockheed Martin, SAIC, BAE, Teledyne, BBC, Sony, CBS, Hearst-Argyle, Radio France and others.