World-leading film and TV memorabilia company Prop Store Wins Queen’s Award for International Trade
This week Prop Store announced they have been awarded the prestigious Queen’s Award for International Trade. The award was presented for Outstanding Short-Term Growth in overseas sales over the last three years.
Widely recognised as the highest accolade for business success in the UK. The award is given to British companies who have excelled in innovation, international trade and promoting opportunity through social mobility.
Established in 1998 in Little Chalfont, Hertfordshire, Prop Store provides movie fans and collectors with artefacts; props, costumes and other ephemera used to create motion pictures and television shows, from cult favourites to major studio blockbusters.
They also sell to institutions, museums, and archives to ensure that items once seen as waste and a by-product of the film making process are now collected, archived, and displayed as artifacts with intrinsic value.
Prop Store holds its major annual Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction each year at the BFI IMAX Cinema in Waterloo, London. The auction has seen thousands of incredible movie artefacts go under the hammer.
Highlights including Indiana Jones’ (Harrison Ford) Signature Fedora from Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) which sold for a record-breaking £393,600 in 2018. A Hero Batpod Vehicle from Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises (2012) which sold for an outstanding £312,000 in 2016. Last but not least a Radio-Controlled Hero Ghost Trap and Pedal from Ghostbusters (1984) which sold to Ghost Adventures star Zak Bagans in last year’s live auction for £186,960.
Stephen Lane, CEO and Founder of Prop Store, commented on the award:
It’s hard to fully articulate what it means to see Prop Store awarded with such a coveted and prestigious prize as the Queen’s Award for Enterprise. Just over 20 years ago, this was a hobby I turned into a small business, initially run from my home office.
Now we’ve been officially recognised as an outstanding player on the world stage, and that hobby – collecting movie props and memorabilia – feels ultimately validated as a truly valuable commercial and cultural enterprise
