Celebrating European Business Success by Jean Stephens, CEO RSM International

I would like to congratulate the 100 businesses from across Europe that have been announced as the finalists and Ruban d’Honneur recipients in the 2013/14 European Business Awards. The finalists were chosen from over 370 National Champions by an esteemed panel of judges made up of European business and political leaders, academics and entrepreneurs. These businesses are shining examples of European business success and I wish them the well in the next and final round.

A review of this year’s entrants from the Chairman of the Judges, Phil Forrest

As the European Business awards reaches its third and most exciting stage it creates the opportunity to review the background and highlights of this year’s programme. Once again the entries reflected the fact that even in an economic environment that is still showing an uneven pattern of recovery the most successful businesses continue to thrive and grow. 

And the data which emerges from the entries produces some interesting insights into the European Business community 

RSM recognises European Business Awards National Champions

Guest post from Robert Coles, RSM Europe Regional Leader 

RSM is the lead sponsor of the European Business Awards, and as the Regional Leader for Europe, I have had the great pleasure and fortune of being the Master of Ceremonies at RSM hosted ‘National Champions’ events across the continent. These special events are to celebrate with those companies who have been awarded National Champion status and who are therefore through to the next round in the competition. In total, this is 371 companies in 31 countries; all of differing size and structure and from across many sectors and industries.

They Could Be Giants – Adrian Tripp

Last Wednesday we launched our new initiative ‘They Could be Giants’; a programme set up to showcase companies at an early stage with the potential to be disruptive their markets. They are an extremely impressive group of innovative, entrepreneurial and highly promising businesses.

The initiative first came about when we spotted companies coming through the awards that had stand out business products or services but could not yet prove financial success. We wanted to help and give visibility to businesses like this.

Additionally we wanted to show Europe and the rest of the world that we have some very innovative early stage businesses with huge potential coming out of a lot of different sectors – which obviously bodes well for the future.

‘They Could be Giants’ was born

Overcoming Obstacles for an Outstanding Gala Event

The European Business Awards' 2012/13 Gala Event will certainly be one to remember. The sudden unrest in Istanbul was just one of the hurdles that the EBA Events team needed to overcome in order to host this prestigous night, but they pulled it off and even managed to secure a live video feed so those people that didn't make it to the event could watch from home and find out about the winners in real-time.

European Business Awards – Becoming Carbon Neutral

The European Business Awards has joined forces with new category sponsor BP Target Neutral to begin a journey towards becoming a carbon neutral awards programme.

Networking Success at European Business Awards Luncheon

Always looking for ways to improve the experience of our entrants, this year the European Business Awards decided to run a smaller networking event in advance of the official Gala Dinner. The British Consul-General, Mr Leigh Turner kindly agreed to host the event at the British Consulate-General in Istanbul on the morning of 6 June.

Everyone’s A Winner by Adrian Tripp, CEO, European Business Awards

The 2013/14 European Business Awards' entries are now open but what are the benefits of entering? Here, CEO of the European Business Awards, Adrian Tripp, takes a look at the awards and highlights what entering, and hopefully winning, a European Business Award can do for your business.