YORK software firm MooD International has been officially presented with its third Queen's Award for Enterprise.

Based at York Science Park, Mood was visited by the Lord-Lieutenant of North Yorkshire Barry Dodd to receive its award for International Trade.

Founded in 1997, MooD develops software to manage business performance for people-intensive operations, and has previously received Queen's Enterprise awards in 2004 and 2010, both for innovation.

In achieving its award this year, MooD demonstrated “substantial growth in overseas earnings and in commercial success, sustained over not less than three years, to levels which are outstanding for the goods or services concerned and for the size of the entrant’s operations”.

Dick Whittington, one of MooD’s founders and directors, said: "Winning a Queen's Award is the most prestigious tribute a UK business can receive.

"All of our software is developed here in York, the team goes from strength to strength, and we’re immensely proud of the achievement and, to use the words of the Lord-Lieutenant of North Yorkshire,our contribution to ‘the Northern Powerhouse’."

MooD's software use business language and visual perspectives to help senior managers understand what’s happening, and to identify and evaluate options to improve business outcomes.

Its performance and governance systems are configured using award-winning technologies that have delivered efficiency gains and savings to the tune of hundreds of millions of pounds to the British government and to the economies of major enterprises, including E-On, DWP, BP and Shell.

MooD was announced as a Queen's Award winner back in April, when chief executive George Davies said he expects to recruit in excess of 20 new people to his 83-strong team over the course of the year.

Simon Smith, chief technology officer at MooD, said: "We are always on the lookout for talented developers as well as front end programmers with experience in CSS / HTML or D3 visualisation software as we continue to develop our new and existing software platforms."