It’s time to enter Clare Business Excellence Awards!
As we all know, time flies! August 04, the deadline for our mystery shopping/independent reviewer categories (adjudicated by SpotCheck NI) is just a few weeks away.
Categories with an August 04 deadline:
Best Tourism Experience in Clare (Sponsored by TUS)
Best Hospitality Provider in Clare (Sponsored by The Shannon Airport Group)
Best Restaurant in Clare (Sponsored by AIB)
Best Café in Clare (Sponsored by AIB)
Best Retailer (Sponsored by Clean Ireland Recycling)
Customer Service Excellence (sponsored by Xeinadin)
To make a submission to Clare Business Excellence Awards follow this link: https://www.ennischamber.ie/services-2/business-awards/
*Please note, only above listed categories have August 04 submission date, all other categories are due by September 12.
Should you need motivation to make a submission, here are some great reasons to enter this year’s Clare Business Excellence Awards.
20 Reasons to Enter Clare Business Excellence Awards
Professionally Adjudicated: Ensuring Clare Business Excellence Awards represent more than a chance to win a trophy.
Independent Recognition: Professionally judged awards provide credible, third-party validation of your business, products, services, and achievements.
Enhanced Reputation: Being shortlisted or winning strengthens your brand and builds trust with customers, suppliers, investors, and stakeholders.
Marketing Advantage: Award recognition provides valuable content for your website, social media, PR campaigns, email marketing, and promotional materials.
Competitive Differentiation: Distinguishes your business in crowded markets, demonstrating why customers should choose you over competitors.
Employee Pride and Motivation: Recognition boosts morale, increases employee engagement, and gives staff a shared sense of achievement.
Attracting Talent: Award-winning businesses are viewed as desirable employers, helping attract and retain high-quality employees.
Customer Confidence: Independent endorsement reassures prospective customers that they are choosing a business committed to quality and excellence.
Business Benchmarking: Preparing an entry encourages organisations to assess their performance, identify strengths, and recognise areas for improvement.
Increased Visibility: Shortlisted businesses receive media coverage and exposure through promotional activities including social media and press coverage, extending their reach beyond existing audiences.
Celebrate Success: Awards provide an opportunity to recognise the hard work and achievements of employees and celebrate milestones with clients and partners.
Drive Continuous Improvement: Many professionally adjudicated awards include detailed feedback from judges, offering valuable insights that can help strengthen future performance.
Support Business Growth: Recognition can open doors to new markets, partnerships, investment opportunities, and larger contracts.
Strengthen Stakeholder Confidence: Awards reassure investors, funders, boards, and strategic partners that the business operates to high professional standards.
Increase Sales Opportunities: Many customers actively seek out award-winning businesses, and recognised excellence can positively influence purchasing decisions.
Raise Industry Profile: Winning or being shortlisted positions business leaders as experts within their sector, creating opportunities for speaking engagements, media interviews, and thought leadership.
Validate Innovation: Awards recognise businesses that innovate, helping demonstrate leadership in developing new products, services, or business practices.
Build Organisational Culture: The pursuit of excellence required for awards can reinforce a culture focused on quality, innovation, customer service, and continuous improvement.
Long-Term Brand Value: Award recognition becomes part of your company’s story and can continue to deliver credibility long after the awards ceremony.
It’s More Than Winning: Even businesses that do not win often gain significant value through the application process by reflecting on achievements, clarifying strategy, and articulating what makes them exceptional.
As professionally adjudicated awards, entries to Clare Business Excellence Awards undergo a rigorous, objective judging process that adds particular value because success is based on evidence, business performance, and independent assessment rather than public voting. This gives winners and finalists a highly credible mark of excellence that can be confidently promoted to customers, employees, and the wider business community.
We look forward to receiving your submission(s).
