Galway-based companies win at SFA Awards
Two Galway-based companies took home category awards at the SFA National Small Business Awards.
Foods of Athenry won the Food & Drink Category and Mervue-based NVP Energy was named Innovator of the Year.
In addition, the UX Studio – based at Ballyhugh, outside Gort – was recognised among the Best Emerging New Businesses.
The awards celebrate the achievements of small business in Ireland and recognise the vital contribution of the sector to the Irish economy. The winners were selected from hundreds of applications received for the 2019 programme.
Announcing the Foods of Athenry’s win, Sue O’Neill, SFA Chair and Chair of the Awards Judging Panel, said it represented ‘a fantastic example’ of a company that started out as a side line in a converted bike shed to supplement dairy farm income in 1999.
“It has now developed into a thriving gluten-free and ‘free-from’ bakery business employing 26 people in rural Galway,” she said.
“The company currently has 30 individual products and with huge growth in the number of people choosing to eat a plant-based diet the company is well placed to support this,” she added.
Announcing NVP Energy’s win, Ms O’Neill said it was down to a solution developed by NVP Energy that substantially reduces wastewater treatment costs while also generating energy.
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