Company of the Year Award

Nominees should be locally or internationally owned, established five years+ and operate in local and international markets. 'The Company of the Year Award' will recognise the company which best demonstrates outstanding business leadership, sustainable growth, innovative strategy, strong financial returns and employee development.

Eligibility:
• Applicants should be from companies more than 5 years in existence based in Ireland.
• One submission per company will be accepted.

Application:
• Each application should detail a compelling business case as to why your company should be recognised as a potential 'Company of the Year 2010'.
• Judging will be based on the quality of the information presented in the business case.
• Please outline your company story in 2000 words or less.

Each submission should include evidence of the following criteria:
• Growth
• Financial performance/shareholder value*
• Innovation - new product development
• Vision/Marketing strategy
• HR/Personnel development
• Corporate social responsibility strategy

Deadline for Submissions: 10th September 2010
• From the submissions received, 25 companies will be identified as best addressing the criteria outlined and each case will be presented to our judging panel for consideration as part of a shortlist.
• Thereafter shortlisted companies will be invited to participate in our finalists networking event along with nominees across other categories, past recipients, judges and business leaders. This event will take place in mid October.
• The 25 companies will be profiled in Business and Finance magazine and on businessandfinancetoday.com
• The submissions will then be assessed by our selected judging panel from which a shortlist of a maximum of 10 companies will be chosen.
• The shortlisted companies for 'The Company of the Year Award' will be announced at the beginning of November 2010.

Winners Announcement
• The winner will be announced at the Gala Awards Ceremony in the Convention Centre Dublin on December 9th 2010.

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All of the judges selected for the Company of the Year Award are business leaders who have achieved success in their own right. Therefore, creating a truly peer-to-peer platform for recognition.

* Please note all financial information submitted will be treated as confidential and viewed only by the judging panel.

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