Made in the UK, Sold to the World Awards 2025
Organised by the Department for Business and Trade (DBT), the Made in the UK, Sold to the World Awards recognise and celebrate the success of UK SMEs trading internationally.
We want to inspire and encourage UK businesses to pursue global opportunities. Through the ‘Made in the UK, Sold to the World’ campaign, DBT celebrates exporters from across the country, with the aim of instilling an exporting culture.
The annual Made in the UK, Sold to the World Awards, part of this campaign, recognise and celebrate UK businesses from a wide range of sectors achieving international success.
The awards programme:
- Helps to increase businesses’ focus on exporting.
- Encourages more of them to export by showing that businesses of all sizes and industries are overcoming barriers and succeeding internationally.
- Encourages ‘hand-raising’, resulting in compelling export success stories shared by businesses and promoted by DBT.
Key information
- Each category will be judged by two DBT sector leads, one judge from each of our partners – Lloyds Bank and the Chartered Institute of Export & International Trade.
- Winners will receive a certificate, trophy and digital badge, as well as promotional activity by DBT and prizes from our partners. They will also be invited to attend a Parliamentary reception on 26th June.
- You cannot apply on behalf of another business, but we encourage you to promote the awards to any relevant contacts in your network.
- The awards are free to enter.
- To enter, a business must be a UK-based SME – defined as having up to 250 employees and a turnover of less than £50 million.
- Businesses can only submit one entry each, for their most relevant category. They will not be eligible to win more than one award.
- Export successes referred to in submissions must have taken place between January and December 2024.