SWANSEA, UK - - 21 APRIL 2016 - - LUMISHORE, THE WORLDS LEADING MANUFACTURER OF UNDERWATER LED LIGHTING SYSTEMS, WINS THE 2016 QUEEN'S AWARD FOR ENTERPRISE INNOVATION.

The Award is the UK’s highest business accolade and recognises Lumishore’s innovation and resulting commercial success for a period of over five years. This stunning achievement derives from Lumishore’s unrivaled technical expertise, combined with its continued investment in Research and Development, to create the worlds most innovative, high-performance, high-output lighting systems for the boating market.

This is the third consecutive year Lumishore has won British Industry’s most coveted Queen’s Award which endorses the highest levels of excellence for Britain’s elite companies. In 2014 and 2015, Lumishore was recognized for its contribution to International Trade.

This Award for Innovation recognises Lumishore’s core capabilities, its inherent and unrivalled LED and electronics expertise, investment in R&D, solid manufacturing platform, and its no-compromise approach to quality. The Award further endorses several valuable industry ‘firsts’ for Lumishore, including being the first company to bring fully colour changing underwater lighting to the marine market, the revolutionary and award-winning Lumishore EOS colour changing lighting system and to offer high-output LED underwater lighting.

“We are extremely proud that the Queen’s Award recognises Lumishore for its Innovation,” says Eifrion Evans, CEO. “The Award endorses our industry leadership,” Evans continued, “and is a recognition for Lumishore’s world-class design, development and manufacturing staff, who produce the best and most breath-taking underwater lighting effects for the most prestigious Superyachts yachts and for boats of all sizes all over the world. An on-going commitment to innovation and future product development are core to Lumishore’s DNA, which, when combined with investment in our people, equipment, and premises, and our passion for customer focus will lead to our continued future growth and success. We thank all our customers who have recognised Lumishore’s capabilities and are at the heart of our past and future successes.”

Lumishore is a privately owned company headquartered in Swansea, UK. All Lumishore underwater lighting systems are exclusively designed, developed and manufactured in-house at its ISO9001 certified facility. Lumishore has a US division, Lumishore USA, based in Sarasota, Florida.

About The Queen’s Award for Enterprise - Innovation: The Queen’s Award for Enterprise is the most highly esteemed award in recognition of outstanding achievement and excellence by UK businesses in the categories of Innovation, International Trade and Sustainable Development. It is awarded by Her Majesty the Queen, based on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, and is only awarded for the highest levels of excellence demonstrated in each category. The Innovation category recognizes those businesses that have created value by fulfilling the needs and expectations for its customers sustained over a period of five or more years.

About Lumishore: Globally recognised as market leader, LUMISHORE creates the brightest, most beautiful, high-performance underwater LED lighting solutions for the marine sector using proprietary LED technology. Every LUMISHORE LED light is the result of an uncompromising approach to design, development, manufacture and a continuous search for cutting-edge lighting effects. LUMISHORE is ISO9001 certified, has ABS , RINA , DNV/GL Classification Approval and is the only underwater LED lighting provider with full Lloyds Register Type Approval including EMI/EMC testing and compliance. LUMISHORE designs, develops and manufactures its systems exclusively in Swansea, U.K., and has proven itself the premier supplier of underwater LED lighting solutions to the leisure marine sector for all sizes of boats from RIBs to the world’s largest Superyachts. LUMISHORE’s complete in-house capability enables LUMISHORE to create exceptionally powerful, market-leading highest output underwater LED lighting systems from 1,100 to over 23,000 fixture lumens. To learn more about Lumishore and its underwater LED lighting products, visit Lumishore.com.

For more information please contact Eifrion Evans, CEO, Lumishore, phone: +44 (0) 7768 798446, Email: ceo@lumishore.com