Twenty five companies changing the way people in Kent live and work have been revealed in the Future List.

Selected by a team of expert judges, the group of firms are developing and selling innovative products and services that are transforming lives for the better.

The list includes some well known names – like BAE Systems and Pfizer – and less familiar businesses, spread across various sectors, from technology to horticulture.

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What unites them is a drive for success and the ability to transform the future.

Some are focused towards our everyday lives, like ID&C, which makes high-tech security wristbands for music festivals, to Elvis & Kresse, which makes handbags from old fire hoses.

Others are serving business, with Digital Contact developing big data products helping financial traders and Piper Cams producing the latest camshafts used in Formula 1 and Le Mans.

Many are engaged in research which has life-saving consequences, like the immune system research of Centauri Theraputics, or Quivium, which has developed an alarm alerting asthma sufferers before they have an attack.

Find out which companies are changing the way we live and work in Kent with the Future List

Compiling the list was "both a pleasure and a challenge" according to the team of judges.

These were Paul Barber, managing director of business estate Discovery Park in Sandwich, Patrick Benham-Crosswell, site director of commercial site Kent Science Park, Sue Nelson, chief executive of R&D tax specialists Breakthrough Funding, and Alan Walker, technology director at venture capital investor NCL.

"I was genuinely blown away by the standard of the companies we looked at," said Mr Barber.

"It's remarkable just how much innovation is taking place in Kent and how many talented and incredibly dedicated people work amongst us."

Mr Benham-Crosswell added: "It is wonderful to see how much high quality research is being turned into products in Kent.

"We could probably have filled the list twice over.

"The message is clear: Kentish companies are developing and deploying world beating technologies that will transform and improve our world."

Mrs Nelson added: "It was such a tough job to narrow it down to 25, but I learnt so much and it me very proud to be based in Kent."

Click here to discover the firms in the Future List of companies changing the way we live and work