Sponsors
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Irish Life Corporate Business - Lead sponsor |
Irish Life Corporate Business is one of the largest providers of employer-sponsored group insurance and defined contribution pension services in Ireland, serving the needs of over 300,000 employees across over 3,000 companies in Ireland.
The Irish Life Corporate Business mission is to help workers to provide for a secure financial future for themselves and their families, and we work closely with employers and their advisors to deliver this goal.
In our group insurance business we pay out over €60m in life cover benefits each year to the families of people we have insured. We pay a further €50m a year in Income Protection benefits to insured employees who have become unable to work through illness or disability. In our group pensions business we have focussed on product innovation to allow employees saving for their retirement to manage investment risk in an effective manner, and on technology development to constantly improve the on-line information and services we make available to employees, employers and advisors.
Irish Life Corporate Business is a business unit within Irish Life Assurance plc, which in turn is a subsidiary of Irish Life & Permanent plc.
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Irish Management Institute - academic sponsor |
Focused on improving the practice of management, the Irish Management Institute is the only Irish business school to be ranked in the Financial Times (FT) Executive Education Rankings. In 2011, IMI maintained this status for the third year in succession.
We work with individuals and organisations to enhance management competence and facilitate the exchange of management expertise and experience through education, research and top management networks. Our portfolio of programmes is internationally accredited and ranges from short programmes to Masters level degrees, addressing the skills needs of managers at every stage of their career.
IMI also designs and delivers customised programmes for organisations across the spectrum of Irish business and the public sector. These tailored programmes are developed in partnership with client organisations to address their specific business challenges and help them achieve superior business performance and service through the development of their people.
IMI is not-for-profit membership organisation and through its Membership and Knowledge Centre Services, also facilitates the exchange of management expertise through research, business and learning resources and top management networks.
Our state of the art Campus in Sandyford, Dublin also includes a conference centre, office and meeting space and accommodation.
For further details, please go to www.imi.ie.
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The Sunday Business Post - media sponsor |
The Sunday Business Post, which was launched in 1989, is one of Ireland’s biggest publishing success stories, with circulation now standing at 54,993 (ABC July – Dec 2008) and an average readership of 155,000 (JNRS 2008)
The mission of the newspaper is to encourage enterprise and wealth creation in Ireland and to provide readers with information that is of value to them in their personal and professional lives. Reporters who are experts in the areas of business, finance, politics, law, crime, IT, property, and recruitment provide in depth coverage of stories that matter to our readers. In our new weekly agenda magazine we provide social analysis, opinion columns and the stories behind the lifestyles of our readers including extensive coverage of wine, food, travel, tv, and the arts.
According to the latest industry research** The Sunday Business Post has the highest profile of readers among senior business people including chief executives, directors, senior or middle management or owner managers than any other national newspaper and has the highest profile reader in the AB demographic than any other Sunday newspaper.
The Sunday Business Post is delighted to be working with Deloitte and the other sponsors, Bank of Scotland and IMI , in the Best Managed Companies Awards. As media sponsor we will be promoting the awards to our targeted readership through advertising and editorial support as well as participating in the judging of the entrants. We anticipate that the awards programme will correspond to the interests and expertise of our business readers as it promotes excellence in managed and owner managed companies.