Denis Wick Products has announced that it has been presented with a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade for 2013.

Export

Appropriately, the announcement was made on the 21st April – the Queen’s Birthday, and was made in recognition of the company’s achievements in the export market.

Over 80% of Denis Wick products are sold overseas and there is hardly a brass band, ensemble or orchestra anywhere in the world that does not use a one of their famous products.

Coveted

Stephen Wick told 4BR: "This accolade is one of Britain’s most coveted business awards, and offers recognition for some of the UK’s most successful companies — both large and small.

It is a reflection of the success that Denis Wick Products has achieved all over the world with its best-selling accessories for brass instruments."

Success

The Denis Wick factory in Poole, Dorset, produces full range of mutes and mouthpieces, with the company growing in recent years to reflect their success by moving into bigger premises and taking on new staff.

Stephen added: "As well as investing in the latest CNC equipment for mouthpiece production and in other high-tech machinery Denis Wick Products has also taken on trainees to learn the traditional craft-based skills, thus ensuring that these specialist skills are passed on to a new generation of highly trained workers.

The company also runs an apprenticeship scheme to help students to develop a wide range of metal working skills and to acquire nationally recognised qualifications."

Brass band sound

Although Denis Wick had a background as a symphony player (he was for many years Principal Trombone of the London Symphony Orchestra), his iconic mouthpieces are played all over the world, where they have helped shape the sound of the modern brass band.

Denis Wick started producing mutes and mouthpieces in 1968, and this award is a fitting tribute to the success that he has achieved with the companyStephen Wick

Tribute

Stephen concluded: "Denis Wick started producing mutes and mouthpieces in 1968, and this award is a fitting tribute to the success that he has achieved with the company.

The company has now sold millions of mutes and mouthpieces and continues to refine its designs and bring out innovative new products.

Recent successes have included the best-selling Ultra mouthpiece range developed with Steven Mead, the new American Classic trumpet mouthpieces and the ground-breaking travel mute series."

4BR visit to Denis Wick

See 4BR visit the Denis Wick factory in Poole:

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