3 April 2009 - For immediate release

Global mapping specialists Europa Technologies have won the prestigious International Business Award at the Surrey Business Awards 2009. The company was also a finalist for the Small Business Award and founder Warren Vick, a finalist for Surrey Business Person of the Year.

The gala event was held at the Savill Court Hotel in Windsor Great Park and was attended by finalists, notable business figures, the Lord Lieutenant of Surrey, as well as nine of the county's mayors. Master of Ceremonies for the evening was BBC presenter and Surrey resident, Nicholas Owen.

On receiving the award, the company's Founder and Executive Director Warren Vick said, "We were delighted to be finalist in three categories at this prestigious business awards. It is a great honour to win the International Business Award in recognition of our achievements on the international stage. Europa Technologies is extremely proud to be a small Surrey-based business with global reach". He added, "I would like to sincerely thank sponsors HSBC for their support of the awards and selecting us from all very worthy finalists."

About Europa Technologies

Europa Technologies is a specialist manufacturer of digital world map data for a wide variety of market sectors and applications. Our products allow organisations with international interests to better understand their customers, assets and markets, in a geographic context, to gain a competitive or strategic advantage. Topographic and satellite imagery products from Europa Technologies are used by many Fortune Global 500 companies and several missions of the United Nations. Europa Technologies is also the official supplier of mobile network coverage maps to the GSM Association, the global trade organisation for the leading mobile telecommunications standard. The company has global licence agreements with a number of leading Internet-based service providers including Google Earth/Maps (USA), Multimap (UK), ViaMichelin (France) and Maps24 (Germany). Through deployment via Google alone, our world data products are used by over 350 million people, approximately 1 in 4 of Internet users world-wide and our mobile coverage maps are accessed by over 20 million unique users, each year.

For further information, please visit www.europa.uk.com

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