Entrepreneur Of The Year
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Ernst & Young is a global leader in professional services and provides integrated, financially-based solutions to businesses across a wide variety of sectors. Our services fall under the broad headings of Audit and Assurance Services, Tax Services, Risk Advisory Services, and Transaction Advisory Services.
Throughout Ireland, we work with leading blue-chip and smaller entrepreneurial companies contributing to their businesses to help them win in the market place. Over 1,300 staff and 50 partners are employed in the Irish firm. Our largest office is in Dublin and we have other offices in Cork, Galway, Limerick, Waterford and Belfast. Globally, Ernst & Young member firms operate in 140 countries with more than 130,000 partners and staff.
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The Irish Times is Ireland’s quality national daily newspaper with a readership of 318,000 daily (JNRS O6/07). Our business coverage throughout the week includes news, views and analysis and our Friday edition features Ireland's premier Business and Recruitment Supplement "Business this Week". The Irish Times is the leading publication for business in Ireland with 79% of senior business people choosing to read The Irish Times above all other publications (EBRS - 2006). We recently added to our business coverage with a monthly magazine - Innovation is produced on the second Monday of each month with the objective to broaden our business coverage while also filling a clear gap in the Irish market for a magazine focusing on global trends and Innovation in all its guises.
www.ireland.com
RTÉ, Ireland’s Public Service Broadcaster, delivers a wide range of programming across its output areas, designed to inform, inspire and reflect its varied community of listeners and viewers, and in so doing caters to minority and majority tastes with broad and niche programming across its schedules. The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year®’s television programmes are broadcast in peak time on RTÉ One and are supported across the other RTÉ output areas, including www.rte.ie, constituting a key commitment from RTÉ to the Irish business community. RTÉ’s support serves to position the Awards as an important national celebration of commercial excellence and business acumen and thus contributes to a climate of support and sustainability for Irish entrepreneurship.
www.rte.ie
Enterprise Ireland is the Irish government's lead agency responsible for the development and growth of the indigenous business sector. The mission of Enterprise Ireland is to accelerate the development of world-class Irish companies to achieve strong positions in global markets, resulting in increased national and regional prosperity.
Leadership, innovation and growth are the fundamental themes underpinning the Enterprise Ireland strategy 'Transforming Irish Industry 2008 - 2010'. It is driven by the overarching principle that growth in global markets through the internationalisation of Irish companies is the key to wealth and employment creation in Ireland.
'Transforming Irish Industry 2008-2010' is a strategy with innovation at its core, recognising that the focus must be on developing and applying new knowledge and new ways of doing things.
This strategy will continue to underpin and grow a strong, sustainable and world-class indigenous business sector. Enterprise Ireland will support Irish companies to secure existing growth, capitalise on emerging opportunities, and position for future growth.
www.enterprise-ireland.com
Invest NI is the main economic development agency for Northern Ireland and our role is to grow the economy by helping new and existing businesses to compete internationally, and by attracting new investment to Northern Ireland. Our efforts result in wealth-creation by strengthening the economy through the introduction of new technologies, new markets, new management skills and better employment opportunities for all. We also help local businesses respond to the challenges and opportunities of the international economy. As a global organisation committed to improving the international competitiveness of Northern Ireland business, we deliver our services through a network of eight regional offices in Northern Ireland, 12 worldwide offices and four Technology Development Centres in Boston, Denver, Dusseldorf and Dubai.
www.investni.com
IIBN is a global, not for profit organisation which brings together the cream of Irish business men and women. The objective of IIBN is to facilitate greater communication and connectivity between successful Irish business people all over the world with a view to identifying and exploiting wealth creation opportunities. Headquartered in London, IIBN also has a chapter in New York which was launched in April 2008 and hosted by the Irish Consulate in Park Avenue. One of IIBN’s key aims is to establish IIBN Chapters in all of the major cities which have strong Irish networks and we will be launching in Dublin and the Far East in early 2009. IIBN is a membership organisation. Membership costs £95 a year and can be obtained from the IIBN website
www.iibn.com
The two economies on the island of Ireland face similar challenges arising from the increasing pace intensity of global competition. Both governments have agreed that cooperation across a range of areas - including infrastructure, innovation and enterprise development - can benefit everyone. InterTradeIreland plays a unique role in helping the two governments improve economic conditions by:
- undertaking research that highlights and makes recommendations on the benefits of increased cooperation.
- developing and delivering programmes to help companies take advantage of the business opportunities available across the island.
- supporting networks that enable businesses to share their experience and expertise, develop new products and identify new markets.
www.intertradeireland.com
Newstalk 106-108 fm, Ireland's national independent talk radio station, brings you the very best in news, opinions, analysis, entertainment and sport. From dawn to dusk, you’ll find the freshest, wittiest and most challenging programming on the Irish airwaves. Presenters include George Hook, Sean Moncrieff, Claire Byrne, Ger Gilroy, Tom Dunne, Eamon Keane, Eoin McDevitt and David Norris. Newstalk - delivering entertaining, informative and relevant radio for the nation.
www.newstalk.ie
Recognised internationally as Ireland's premier university, Trinity College Dublin is the only Irish university ranked in the top 100 world universities (53rd) and the top 50 European universities (13th) by the Times Higher Education Supplement university league tables. Business is a long established discipline in Trinity College and the School of Business is recognised for its unique and innovative degree programmes, commitment to research-based teaching, internationalism and strong inter-relationships with Irish and global organisations in the private, public and voluntary sectors. The School's flagship MBA programme is one of Europe's longest established full-time, one-year international MBA programmes, with a multinational student body, global reputation, and uniquely intimate small scale experience.
www.business.tcd.ie
