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AMS has done it again. The world beating Burnley firm has scored a royal hat-trick by winning the Queens award for export achievements in three years running. Winning more than twice is virtually unheard of. Winning three times in succession is so unusual that award office officials know of only one other instance. Even the two men behind the company, Burnley grammar school old boys Mark Crabtree and Stuart Nevison, thought it impossible. When the letter arrived bearing the familiar logo the two executive directors thought it was probably a circular.

Mark said then I read the the first couple of lines… And we both went into a state of shock. We just were not expecting it… We didn't stop shaking for the rest of the morning said Mr Nevison. ANS leads the world in applying computer technology to professional recording equipment. Since 1976 the company has pioneered digital audio. Their equipment is used by stars like Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Duran Duran and Boy George allowing stars to manipulate sounds the way computers manipulate numbers. Their expertise in digital techniques also led the company to produce the worlds smallest, most powerful, handheld computer, the AMS Datasafe. But the most recent jewel in the company crown is the Audiofile. The device stores sound on equipment normally use to store computer data and has made conventional magnetic tape recording obsolete. The company's reputation is now so high that a survey of Japanese recording engineers showed they preferred AMS products to all others.