Metricell has been handed its King's Award at its Horsham office. All three West Sussex winners this year are Horsham district firms: Metricell, Dog-G8 and ERG.

Horsham software company Metricell has been presented with its King’s Award for Enterprise. The Lord-Lieutenant of West Sussex, Lady Emma Barnard, handed it over on behalf of the King at the firm’s Horsham offices on Monday 5 October (Horsham District Council).

Metricell won in the Innovation category. It is one of three West Sussex businesses on this year’s official list, and all three are based in Horsham district (The Gazette, issue 65058).

The three Horsham district winners

The King’s Awards for Enterprise 2026 were published in a special supplement of The Gazette on 6 May. The three West Sussex entries are:

Business Where Category What the award is for
Metricell Foundry Lane, Horsham Innovation An AI-powered software module that monitors and manages mobile network connectivity
The Dog-G8 Company Horsham Innovation A retractable, modular dog safety gate for doors, homes and motorhomes
ERG (Air Pollution Control) Slinfold International Trade Air pollution and odour control systems exported from the UK

Award descriptions are from the Gazette supplement. Addresses are the registered offices on Companies House for Metricell Limited and The Dog-G8 Company Ltd; ERG’s Slinfold base is in our report on its presentation.

Metricell says 185 businesses across the UK were recognised this year, 52 of them for innovation (Metricell). The awards are in their 60th year, having first been made in 1966.

What Metricell’s award is for

The award recognises Metricell’s Automated Network Investigator, known as ANI. It is a tool that mobile operators use to find out why part of a network is performing badly.

According to Metricell’s product page, ANI pulls together network performance figures, fault data, crowdsourced measurements and customer complaints. It then works out the likely cause, such as a site performing poorly or a gap in coverage. The aim is to replace slow manual investigation by engineers.

A fourth award for the company

This is Metricell’s fourth enterprise award and its first King’s Award. It previously won Queen’s Awards in 2012, 2016 and 2020 (Metricell). Its 2020 award was also for innovation, for crowdsourcing technology that measures network performance (Metricell, 2020).

Four award emblems in a row: Queen's Awards for Enterprise for Innovation in 2012, International Trade in 2016 and Innovation in 2020, and the King's Award for Enterprise for Innovation in 2026.
Metricell's four enterprise awards. Image: Metricell

Metricell Limited was incorporated in January 2007 and is registered at The Big Blue, 26 Foundry Lane, Horsham (Companies House). The company says it has three offices, in Horsham, Malaga and Kuala Lumpur (Metricell).

Horsham District Council’s chair, Cllr Joanne Knowles, attended the presentation and toured the offices, the council said.

What it means for you

  • For job seekers, Metricell is a Horsham employer in AI and telecoms software. Its vacancies are listed on its own careers page.
  • For other local firms, the five categories are Innovation, International Trade, Sustainability, Promoting Opportunity and Young Founder, and an award is valid for five years. Eligibility and the categories are set out on business.gov.uk.
  • If you run a Horsham business and want help with growth, the council’s business support pages are on horsham.gov.uk.

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