Entrepreneur Of The Year - Ernst & Young - United Kingdom

Program

• Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of the Year is the world's most prestigious business award for entrepreneurs. As the first and only truly global award of its kind, Entrepreneur Of The Year celebrates those who are building and leading successful, growing and dynamic businesses, recognising them through regional, national and global awards programs in more than 140 cities and in more than 50 nations.

• UK Entrepreneur Of The Year 2012 will open for entries in January 2012. Please click here to register your interest.

• Watch our videos to find out more about the program, or to see the 2010 World Entrepreneur Of The Year winners.

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News

• UK in bottom half of G20 in providing a supportive environment for young entrepreneurs. Five-year tracking barometer shows action needed on tax incentives, growth, and regulation.

• Entrepreneur Of The Year 2011 Winners Announced. Stephen Catlin, Chief Executive of international insurer Catlin Group, was named Ernst & Young UK Entrepreneur Of The Year in London last night. Catlin has grown the company to become a global insurance player with a turnover of £2.6billion operating in 52 offices in 22 countries employing more than 1600 staff.

•  Winners of Start Up Britain Awards Announced by Vince Cable. The StartUp Britain award, of which Ernst & Young was a founding supporter, recognised the locally-based support projects targeting regional growth and enterprise, but which have the capacity for scaling nationally. The winner was Are You Ready, supported by Carl Hopkins.

• Top UK Entrepreneurs continue to create jobs on large scale despite wider unemployment. The UK’s top entrepreneurs are continuing to create jobs on a large scale, despite high unemployment, figures compiled by Ernst & Young have found.

• Top UK entrepreneurs call for immediate tax breaks to help drive enterprise. The UK’s leading entrepreneurs have called for immediate tax breaks as the most important measure needed to boost enterprise and growth.

• Exceptional magazine for fast-growth companies focuses on how entrepreneurial businesses are sustaining and even generating growth through this difficult economic cycle.

• Nature or Nurture? Decoding the DNA of the entrepreneur
  Are entrepreneurs born or bred? Through our Entrepreneur Of The Year program, we've probed the minds of 685 entrepreneurial leaders to unearth what it is that makes them successful.

• Igniting innovation: how hot companies fuel growth from within
  What can your organization do to cultivate the spirit of innovation and retain "intrapreneurial" thinkers?

Events

• Entrepreneur Of The Year Program 
  
  UK Entrepreneur Of The Year 2012 will open for entries in January. Please click here to register your interest.
  
  World Entrepreneur Of The Year 2012, Monte Carlo, 7-10 June.
  
  
• Other key events for entrepreneurs 
  
  Strategic Growth Forum (SGF), California, 9 – 13 November 2011. This exclusive invitation only event convenes 1,700 of the world’s top entrepreneurs. Complimentary invitation to UK overall Entrepreneur Of The Year winner. Click here to enquire.
  
  Strategic Growth Forum and Entrepreneur Of The Year Retreat, Cape Town, 1-4 March 2012. A forum for high-growth companies keen to explore African business opportunities, followed by our retreat which focuses on personal development for our alumni. Complimentary invitation to UK Entrepreneur Of The Year winners. Click here to enquire.
  
  British Design 1948-2012 Innovation in the Modern Age, London, 19 April 2012. Ernst & Young’s next blockbuster art sponsorship which is part of our continuing commitment to the arts and is the fifteenth major exhibition that we have been associated with. If you would like to attend this private view and dinner please click here to enquire.
  
  
• Junior Academy, July / August. Our Junior Academy programmes offers your children, aged between 16 and 25 a chance to discover their entrepreneurial potential. This invitation-only summer programme consists of a week's training combining knowledge from top-ranked international business schools and practical experience from Ernst & Young. To find out more, contact Andrea Baars.