is your company one of
NORTHERN IRELAND’ S RISING STARS?
If so, you should enter the Rising Stars 2017 Awards. A simple, effective way to raise your profile within Northern Ireland’ s business community.
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The Rising Stars Awards provide a platform to showcase organisations that have solid rates of growth. In 2017, we open the Rising Stars awards to all indigenous Northern Ireland companies. The Awards programme is or any Northern Ireland company that:
• is based in Northern Ireland
• has shown growth over the past few years
• would like to build its profile
• wishes to inspire others to grow their enterprises
ENTRY CRITERIA For participation in Rising Stars 2017 an applicant must:
• Be a Northern Ireland enterprise
• Exhibit growth in: turnover, profit and / or staffing numbers, digital statistics( eg usage, traffic, app downloads);
AWARD CATEGORIES: 1. STARTUP are businesses set up over the past 18 months. 2. MICRO businesses are organisations with less than 10 full time equivalent staff and trading for at least the last two financial years. 3. SMALL businesses are organisations with more than 10 but less than 50 full time equivalent staff trading for at least the last three financial years. 4. NOT FOR PROFIT / CHARITY businesses are organisations that are run as not for profit and / or have official charity status, trading for at least the last three financial years. 5. PROFESSIONAL SERVICES businesses are organisations that are in the professional services sector trading for at least the last three financial years.
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