British companies compete on European Stage

The European Business Awards is open for entries to companies from across the European Union until the 31st July. Outstanding British businesses still have time to enter and showcase their successful stories in front of the entire continent.

The European Business Awards, like its British equivalent The National Business Awards, is a programme which celebrates the most successful businesses of any size and from any sector. Entrants from across the EU will be judged on the basis of three underlying principles of success, innovation and business ethics, ensuring that young innovative businesses will compete alongside to giant corporations with equal chances to lift the award.

Winners from the relevant categories of the UK based National Business Awards (1) will qualify for The European Business Awards ensuring a first class British participation to the programme.

Group Director Mike Faulkner says: Often companies are shy or think they are too small to compete. That is wrong! This is the chance for every successful business in Europe to shout about their own achievements. We want to hear inspirational stories of entrepreneurial spirit, business leader attributes and innovative thinking. The winners will stand as a model for the whole of the European market.

Winners will be announced at an ’invitation only’ event to be held in the Conrad in Brussels on 31 January 2007. The eight categories which will be the centre of the competition are:

* The CMS Business of the Year Award
* The Business Leader of the Year Award
* The Entrepreneur of the Year Award
* The Siemens Business Innovation of the Year Award
* The Grey EMEA Growth Strategy of the Year Award
* The Socit Gnrale Award for Customer Focus
* The AXA Award for Corporate Sustainability
* The Lifetime Achievement Award

AXA recently joined the sponsor panel together with Grey EMEA, CMS, Siemens, Socit Gnrale and the Official Media Partner The Wall Street Journal Europe. Claire Dorland Clauzel, AXA’s Senior Executive Vice President of Communications, Brand and Sustainable Development comments on the decision to support The AXA Award for Corporate Sustainability: AXA’s vision of its business of Financial Protection focuses on helping its clients to be life confident. To meet this objective, AXA seeks to manage more completely the social and environmental impacts of its business. As a result, AXA will emphasize risk prevention in managing its relationships with its clients, individuals as well as businesses. We expect the AXA Award for Corporate Sustainability to be a means to support corporations which demonstrate strong involvement in managing social, environmental and governance risk prevention.

A registration form can be downloaded at www.businessawardseurope.com or obtained by post by calling the entries team on 44 (0) 20 7378 1188.