sentences:  Montague diversified the company through both product innovation and export driven expansion, visiting even the underdeveloped markets of Africa, Asia and Japan personally at least once a year.In 1969 he was made chair of the Asia committee of the British National Export Council, where he served until 1972, as a result of which he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1970 Birthday Honours.Montague expanded Valor, when in 1987 Valor paid £263m for Yale locks and NuTone.