WMG founder honoured
Founder and chairman of WMG (formerly Warwick Manufacturing Group), Professor Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya, has been presented with a Coventry Award of Merit, an honour aimed at highlighting the efforts of local people in raising the profile and reputation of the City.
He received the award for founding WMG, raising the status of engineering and manufacturing in the UK and for his service to the promotion of the University of Warwick and the City of Coventry.
The Coventry Awards of Merit were first established in the 1960s. Previous recipients include jet engine inventor Sir Frank Whittle KBE, Sir Basil Spence OBE , Coventry Cathedral architect and designer and poet Philip Larkin CBE (1978).
Professor Lord Bhattacharyya established WMG in 1980 "to reinvigorate UK manufacturing through the application of cutting edge research and effective knowledge transfer".
The group started small - just an office, the Professor and his secretary - but by working collaboratively with industrial partners, WMG has grown into a global force in a wide range of fields, from automotive research to innovations in healthcare.
