Programme Partners
The Irish Times is Ireland’s leading quality daily newspaper, which, after 150 years, currently enjoys a daily readership of 359,000 and an online audience of over 2 million, who read and interact with the publication on irishtimes.com. The Irish Times has also developed into a significant multimedia publishing group with a strong portfolio of leading print and online interests that include Metro Herald, Gazette Group Newspapers, The Gloss, myhome.ie, ireland.com and entertainment.ie.
www.irishtimes.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. RTÉ is continuing its commitment as a key media partner of the Entrepreneur Of The Year® programme. Next autumn, 24 Irish entrepreneurs will enjoy a platform of acclaim on RTÉ One, where the stories of their business successes will be told to the nation. 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 encouragement 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. 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 themselves for future growth.
www.enterprise-ireland.com
Invest Northern Ireland is Northern Ireland’s economic development agency. Its overall goal is to help create wealth for the benefit of the whole community by strengthening the economy and helping it grow. It aims to do this by supporting business development, helping indigenous businesses to increase exports, attracting high-quality inward investment, and stimulating a culture of entrepreneurship and innovation. Invest Northern Ireland believes that the core drivers of innovation and export-led growth will develop an economic strategy capable of rebuilding and rebalancing the Northern Irish economy to create a vibrant private sector. Invest Northern Ireland’s approach is to work closely with both local and international companies to identify the support programmes and services that will best meet their developmental needs. As a global organisation committed to improving the productivity and international competitiveness of Northern Irish business, Invest Northern Ireland delivers its services through a network of regional and international offices.
www.investni.com
InterTradeIreland is the only organisation which has been given responsibility by both Governments to boost North/South economic cooperation to the mutual benefit of Northern Ireland and Ireland. By encouraging better use of our collective resources we help to expedite trade and business growth across the island; create an environment to make it easier to do business and increase the competitiveness of individual companies and the two economies in the global marketplace.
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, Tom Dunne, Eamon Keane, Eoin McDevitt and David Norris. Newstalk — delivering entertaining, informative and relevant radio for the nation.
www.newstalk106.ie
