The North East has had its lowest number of King’s Award winners for more than a decade, with just a single company securing the coveted accreditation.
Hogg Global Logistics, which is based in Hartlepool and set up in 2019, won the award for outstanding short term growth in overseas sales. The company offers services in a number of areas of international trade, including preparing documentation, sea, air and road freight services, storage, warehousing, customs clearance and all consular formalities.
But the company being the sole North East recipient of the awards - previously known as the Queen’s Awards, but taking the name of King Charles for the first time this year - will be disappointing to many in the region, after recent years saw an increase in the number of companies from the North East getting recognition. Over the previous two years, 21 companies were recognised.
