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Our latest round-up features award wins, anniversaries and appointments, as the Buckinghamshire Business First membership stays busy and keeps impressing.

GE Healthcare are celebrating a big anniversary this year – 75 years since moving into the Grove Centre.

It was 1940 when GE Healthcare’s Grove Centre opened in Amersham, purchased for £600. Then, a handful of employees worked at the site. Today, that number is 650. This expansion has seen the company grow into a global force, winner of 14 Queen’s Awards for Technology.

Director of the Grove Centre, David Grover, said: “I hope that the next 75 years will see continued innovation. No site exists for 75 without evolving and adapting to the needs of the customer.”

RWS Group, based in Chalfont St Peter, was recently presented with the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for the fifth time. The award was presented by dignitaries including His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester.

The business received the award for International Trade, the highest accolade recognising continuous growth and commercial success.

The Queen’s Awards are highly prized and to win five is a magnificent achievement.

Buckinghamshire New University has appointed a new pro-vice chancellor for research and enterprise. Professor Tim Middleton will join the team from September after leaving Bath Spa University.

Professor Middleton said he was “delighted to be joining Bucks New University, which has an impressive record of work in research and enterprise,” and also praised the University’s “growing volume of world leading and internationally excellent research”.

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