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Horizon Discovery named 'Business of the Year' for second time

Last updated: 13:55 18 Mar 2015 GMT, First published: 14:55 18 Mar 2015 GMT

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Horizon Discovery (LON:HZD) revealed it had joined a select band of companies who can claim to have won "Business of the Year" twice at the Business Weekly awards.

Having first won the accolade, now in its 25th year, in 2011, Horizon has transformed from a private UK life science business in Cambridge to a publicly-listed international life science group employing more than 230 staff across the UK, Austria and the US.

Other firms to have won twice include chip designer ARM Holdings (LON:ARM), Domino Printing Sciences (LON:DNO) and consumer electronics firm CSR (LON:CSR).

Horizon supplies research tools and services to organisations engaged in genomics research and floated on AIM in March last year, since when it has carried out a series of targeted acquisitions as well as expanding its suite of products and services.

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