Dawn Meats has been named as a National Champion for Ireland in The European Business Awards sponsored by RSM; a prestigious competition supported by businesses leaders, academics, media and political representatives from across Europe.  The award was presented to Dawn Meats Group Commercial Director Richard Clinton at the British Ambassador Mr. Dominick Chilcott’s residence in Dublin this week.

The European Business Awards, now in its 9th year, engaged with over 32,000 businesses from 33 European countries this year and 678 companies from across Europe have been named as National Champions; going through to the second phase of the competition.

Commenting on the nomination Richard Clinton said, “The team at Dawn Meats is honoured to be selected for the second time, representing Ireland as a National Champion in the Environmental and Corporate Sustainability category. The European Business Awards are widely recognised as the showcase for Europe’s most dynamic companies and as part of the adjudication process we now look forward to sharing our experience and business success in greater detail with the judging panel.”

Adrian Tripp, CEO of the European Business Awards said: “Congratulations to Dawn Meats and all the companies that have been selected to represent their country as National Champions, they play an important part in creating a stronger business community.”

The next round requires the National Champions to make a presentation video, telling their unique story and explaining their business success. The judges will view all of the National Champions’ videos, and award the best of this group the coveted ‘Ruban d’Honneur’ status.  Ruban d’Honneur recipients will then go on to be part of the grand final in 2016.

Separately, the National Champion videos will be made public on the European Business Awards website www.businessawardseurope.com as part of a two stage public vote, which will decide the ‘National Public Champions’ for each country.  Last year over 170,000 votes were cast as companies from across Europe were publicly supported by their clients, staff and peers, as well as the general public.

Pictured (l – r): Dominick Chilcott, British Ambassador, Richard Clinton, Group Commercial Director, Dawn Meats and Adrian Tripp, CEO of the European Business Awards.