Businesses across the North West are being invited to enter this year's Deloitte Best Managed Companies Awards.
First launched in 2008, the awards coincided with the emergence of the global financial crisis and marked the beginning of a decade of unprecedented economic turbulence for indigenous companies operating across Ireland and exporting to the UK, Europe and further afield.
The awards programme showcases the success of these companies and acknowledges the contribution that they make to the Irish economy. The network of Best Managed Companies developed over the last ten years now stands at 127 and nine companies are marking a decade within the programme this year.
These companies represent excellence in management abilities and practices across all the key functions of their business. Businesses in the North West can enter in four different categories.
These are 'Best Managed Companies'. These are companies that receive the award for the first time.
'Re-qualifiers' - companies that apply to re-qualify for the awards for the next two years following receipt of the award for the first or fourth time.
'Gold standard' - The best managed companies that receive the award for the fourth year in a row.
And 'Platinum Standard' - which are companies that receive the award for the seventh year in a row.
To be eligible to enter the awards, companies must be based in either the Republic or Northern Ireland. Be privately owned, managed and controlled companies. Have a turnover of less than €5 million, be at least five years old and be able to demonstrate superior financial results over the past three years in relation to rival companies.
The judging panel includes Brendan Jennings of Deloitte, Tom Hayes, CEO of Corporate Banking at Bank of Ireland and Ian Kehoe, Editor of the Sunday Business Post.
The closing date for entries is August 6th 2017. For further information see deloittebestmanaged.ie.
