21.04.2005

JCB Win another Queens award

JCB has received a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the International Trade category,
the honour recognises the growth in overseas sales of the JCB backhoe loader. A machine first pioneered by JCB Founder, the late Joseph Cyril Bamford, in 1953.

JCB backhoe loaders have since become so well known around the world that they have become part of the English language, with the name JCB listed in the Oxford and Collins’ Dictionaries as the definition for an hydraulically operated digger.

JCB Chairman Sir Anthony Bamford said today: “I am delighted that JCB’s success in exporting this product has been recognised, particularly as this is JCB’s 60th anniversary year. It is also a great tribute to the efforts of all the team involved in the manufacturing, selling and marketing of this machine.”
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Celebrating JCB's Queen's Award for Enterprise are (L-R): JCB Managing Director, International Sales Director, Graeme Macdonald and Backhoe Loader and Loadall MD Tim Burnhope

JCB is the world market leader for backhoe loaders, with more than one in four backhoes sold around the world made by JCB. A total of 80% of JCB backhoe loaders produced at Rocester are exported to more than 140 countries. Spain and France are among the most important markets but markets in Eastern Europe are also growing fast.

The Queen’s Award is the third to be won by JCB’s Backhoe Loader Business Unit: in 1994 it received a Queen’s Award for Technological Achievement and in 1997 a Queen’s Award for Export Achievement.

In March 2004, JCB produced its 300,000th backhoe loader, a product which is now also manufactured in the USA, India and Brazil