2018 Awards Launch

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8. Best Family Business of the Year Award sponsored by Skoda

This award will recognise a successful family business that has grown and adapted to present and future markets while maintaining the identity and original concept of the founder. This award is for family businesses operating in any sector of the economy, which has enjoyed outstanding success. The criteria for this award includes: Family involvement Excellent Management and leadership Community& Industry involvement Business success & Succession

9. Best Rural Business Award sponsored by Quinlans Fish Shops & Seafood Bars

This award will focus specifically on businesses based in rural areas. Applicants will have shown innovation in the rural business sector, overcoming significant barriers and creating sustained local employment. The criteria for this award includes: Example of positive impact on the local community Demonstration of innovation in the business High customer service standards

10. Social Corporate Responsibility: Shannon Ferry

This award will recognise businesses that showed excellent social and ethical responsibility within the community. The award will go to the company that has shown the greatest social corporate responsibility, broadening their focus beyond making a profit and into benefiting the wider area as a whole. The award will go to the business that best demonstrates the following criteria: Benefits felt by the community Evidence of projects that have benefited the local community Business leadership skills

11. Best Artisan Award sponsored by Ballygarry House Hotel & Spa

This award is open to worker in a skilled trade, craftsman, craftswoman, craftspersons, skilled worker, especially one that involves making things by hand. “street markets where local artisans display handwoven textiles, painted ceramics, and leather goods, food or drink” Demonstration of innovation in the business High customer service standards

12. Kerry Lifetime Achievement Award (NEW) sponsored by IT Tralee &Tom Crean Business Centre

This Award will be presented to a pillar of the Kerry business community, a person who has led and inspired others, a person who has spent a lifetime in business – in good times and bad. The Lifetime Achievement recipient will have had a key impact in his/her sector, will have been the key driving force in that business and will have shown outstanding leadership qualities, developed and achieved clear business goals in the course of their business life. Their work will have made a significant difference in their comsimply munity and sector; their commitment will have been more than doing a job. They will have gone above and beyond what was expected of them.

Seated; Sean Healy, Head of Banking Kerry and Stephen Stack of AIB, Sponsors of the Kerryman 2018 Business awards. Back Lto R Kevin Hughes Kerryman Editor, Mary Rose Cantillon and Margaret Griffin of AIB and Geraldine Brosnan, Kerryman Sales Executive.

Seated Kevin Hughes, The Kerryman Editor and Sarah Flaherty, Marketing & Enterprise Officer at Institute of Technology Tralee, awards sponsors with The Tom Crean Business Centre Tralee. Back Lto R Noelle Foley, Teresa O’ Shea, Geraldine Brosnan, Kerryman Sales Executives and Siobhán Murphy, Advertising and Marketing Manager.

Danny Cooper, Sales Executive, The Kerryman, Liam Lynch, Managing Director Liam Lynch Motors, sponsor and Siobhán Murphy, Advertising and Marketing Manager The Kerryman.

Liam Quinlan, proprietor, Shaun Rochford and Agron Kastrati of Quinlan’s Fish Shops & Seafood Bars, sponsors of the Kerryman 2018 Business awards.

Siobhán Murphy, Kerryman Advertising and Marketing Manager, Tadhg McGillicuddy, Assistant Manager, Elaine Courtney Sales & Marketing Manager and Pádraig Mc Gillicuddy proprietor of Ballygarry House Hotel and Spa, sponsors of the Kerryman 2018 Business Awards.

Danny Cooper, Sales Executive, The Kerryman and Joan McCarthy, Destination Kerry, sponsor.