A tiny Worcestershire firm has beaten off worldwide competition to win the UK's biggest medals contract since the First World War - to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
Bromsgrove-based Worcestershire Medal Services have been awarded the £7 million order to supply medals to the armed forces, emergency services, prison staff and others celebrating next year's anniversary of the Queen's 60 years on the throne.
And all the medals will be made in Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter, with city-based Gladman and Norman working with two neighbouring firms - Toye, Kenning and Spencer and Thomas Fattorini - to supply 450,000 medals from February 6 next year, the anniversary of the Queen's accession."
Gladman and Norman owner Phil McDermott, who set up Worcestershire Medal Services with just £120 in 1988, said: “These medals will be worn from everyone from the Duke of Edinburgh down to the youngest soldier in the Army. It’s a fabulous story for the Jewellery Quarter.
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