Leamington Spa business wins international design award

By Nicky Godding

26 January 2024

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Leamington Spa company Hiplok has won a 2024 Design & Innovation Award for its 1000 Series, a range of anti-angle grinder locks and anchors. The awards celebrate products that showcase advancements in the cycling industry, and the judges commended Hiplok's 1000 Series for “setting a new gold standard in bike theft prevention”.

The Design & Innovation Award is the global seal and benchmark of the world’s best bike and outdoor products.

The 1000 Series features the world's first anti-angle grinder anchors and a D/U lock designed specifically for motorcycles, e-bikes, and cycles. Developed with a focus on urban riders, these products protect against all forms of attack.

Hiplok Co-Founder, Ben Smith, said: "Winning an international award recognising our commitment to innovation is a great way to start the year. We design solutions for the evolving needs of riders, and the 1000 Series is a modular system leading the way in bike and motorcycle security.”

Hiplok co-founders, Ben Smith and John Abrahams are product designers by trade and cyclists by heart. They set out to change security for cyclists, wanting to protect what they love by bringing their design expertise and rider experience to deliver innovative, quality bicycle locks to protect bikes – and in fact the joy of riding.

The result was the world’s first wearable bike lock. But that was only the beginning. Since the launch of the Hiplok ORIGINAL in 2011, the pair have continued to lead on innovation, designing and building quality security products.

By Nicky Godding

Nicky Godding is editor of The Business Magazine. Before her journalism career, she worked mainly in public relations moving into writing when she was invited to launch Retail Watch, a publication covering retail and real estate across Europe.

After some years of constant travelling, she tucked away her passport and concentrated on business writing, co-founding a successful regional business magazine. She has interviewed some of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs who have built multi-million-pound businesses and reported on many science and technology firsts.

She reports on the region’s thriving business economy from start-ups, family businesses and multi-million-pound corporations, to the professionals that support their growth and the institutions that educate the next generation of business leaders.