It was a great honour and a delight to receive our prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the International Trade category recently.
Having now been established in the UK for more than 17 years, we won the award for our continued focus on international expansion of the TopCashback brand.
The award was formally presented to TopCashback co-founders Olly Ragg and Mike Tomkins by the Lord-Lieutenant of Staffordshire, Ian Dudson CBE, during a visit to our head office in Stafford.
TopCashback are one of 225 organisations nationally to be recognised with a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise in 2022.
Celebrating business excellence
The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise, now in its 56th year, is the most prestigious accolade for UK businesses and represents a globally recognised Royal seal of approval, acknowledging and celebrating business excellence.
First established in 1965, only 7,000 companies have achieved a Queen’s Award.
The International Trade category recognises businesses who have demonstrated substantial growth in overseas earnings and commercial success within their sector.
A winning service exportable across the globe
TopCashback co-founders Olly Ragg and Mike Tomkins (pictured l-r above) said: “We’re absolutely thrilled to have won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the International Trade category.
“The fact we have been recognised for demonstrating substantial growth and commercial success overseas is a testament to everything we have endeavoured to do since we started the business in 2005.
“Building TopCashback UK has been, and remains, very important to the entire group. However, we recognise that if we wish to grow further as a business, continued international expansion is absolutely key.
“Our success in the USA, China and Germany has already turbocharged our evolution. In 2020, we also acquired 40% of the largest Swedish cashback site, Refunder, as well as its subsidiary brand, Bast I Test (with a view to increasing to 100% ownership by 2023).
“Having been at the forefront of developing the market in the UK, and in the process becoming the UK market leader, we know with certainty and proof that we have a winning service that is exportable across the globe. Therefore, we look forward with optimism to continued growth in exporting our services in even more territories.
“A huge thanks to our team, our retailer partners and, of course, our loyal members, who are helping us to realise our ambition every day — an ambition to become not only the best and most respected cashback provider in the world, but also one of the biggest.”
