THREE businesses and a champion in the field of skills and training are Hampshire’s winners in this year’s Queen’s Awards for Enterprise.

Two of the county’s awards are in the international trade category.

Segensworth business, Domo Ltd, which employes 44 people, this year began trading as Cobham Surveillance.

It develops highly specialised digital wireless communications solutions for law enforcement and national security agencies and in the last three years, the business has tripled its exports.

Overseas sales have grown to more than 80 per cent of revenue, with the USA accounting for more than 40 per cent.

Hamble business, Fianium Ltd, has also trebled its overseas revenues in the last three years, exporting more than 86 per cent of its production.

It manufactures ultra-fast fibre lasers for use in sectors ranging from materials processing to biomedical imaging, defence research and scientific study.

Its success has been achieved by exploiting innovative technology, using a well-trained multilingual workforce, clever pricing, overseas sales offices and product flexibility and providing a high level of technical support.

The third Hampshire business to be featured in the awards is Powertraveller Ltd, of Alton, which has a workforce of 12.

Its accolade is for innovation and it has won recognition for the continuous development of a range of portable power devices and battery chargers.

The products support the use of portable electronic equipment such as laptop computers, mobile phones, iPods and digital cameras.

An individual award in the enterprise promotion category has gone to Angela Wright, chief executive of Solent Skill Quest.

It was while working as education project manager at the Hampshire Training and Enterprise Council in 1995 that she introduced the notion of involving business volunteers as mentors to help under-achieving young people.

Two years later, she joined Solent Skills Quest, a small not-for-profit organisation which helps employers to achieve their corporate social responsibility by supporting schools.

She has led an expansion of its activities and today the Southampton organisation works with more than 1,000 business volunteers who act as mentors and role models for “challenging” young people.

l From 1,000 hopefuls, there were 200 winners, all now entitled to fly the Queen’s Award for Enterprise flag on their premises for five years.