Business Awards

The Business Person of the Month Award acknowledges excellence and outstanding achievement among Irish business leaders, both at home and abroad, and executives leading major multinational companies in Ireland. The third annual Irish Times Business awards will take place in the Round Room at the Mansion House on Wednesday 2nd September. To purchase a table at the awards, please email businessawards@irishtimes.com

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Pictured in March at the original launch of The Irish Times Business Awards 2020, in association with KPMG, were Séamus Hand, Managing Partner KPMG, Liam Kavanagh, The Irish Times Managing Director, and Breege O’Donoghue, winner of the Distinguished Leader in Business award in 2019. Photograph: Conor McCabe

Irish Times business awards to be hosted in early September

Awards ceremony originally due to be held on May 13th to take place at Mansion House

Irish Times Business Person of the Month: Gene Murtagh

Kingspan’s market value rises to record high of €11.8bn

Seamus Hand, managing partner of KPMG; Liam Kavanagh, managing director of The Irish Times; and Breege O’Donoghue, who last year won the Top 1000 Distinguished Leader in Business award. Photograph: Conor McCabe

The Irish Times launches third annual business awards

Business Person of the Year and other category winners to be announced at May event

Pointy is Google’s fourth acquisition in Ireland over the past decade

Irish Times Business People of the Month: Mark Cummins and Charles Bibby

Duo sold technology company Pointy to Google for a reported $160m

The Irish Times Business Person of the Month: Pat Beirne

Mergon secures multimillion investment from British private equity firm Elysian Capital

The Irish Times Business People of the Month: Noel and Valerie Moran

Meath-based entrepreneurs sold their company Prepaid Financial Services for a payout of €266m

The Irish Times Business Person of the Month: Joanna Murphy

Taxback.com wins landmark case in Australia over backpacker tax

The Irish Times Business Person of the Month: Pat McCann

Dalata’s pretax profit increased to €42.2 million in six-month period

Irish Times Business Person of the Month: Brian O’Sullivan

Hershey takes minority stake in Fulfil Nutrition which sells in to 10 key markets

Irish Times Business Person of the Month: Ger Rabbette

Uniphar has diversified under Rabbette, setting the foundations for a business that would ultimately raise €135m in an IPO

The Irish Times Business Person of the Month: Kevin Lagan

His newest venture FastHouse agrees deal for 200 homes in Dublin

The Irish Times Business Person of the month: Donal Murphy

Energy and services group DCC saw operating profits up 20% and has a potential €1bn warchest for acquisitions

The Irish Times Business Person of the Month: Roisin Hennerty

Ornua Global Foods Division MD instrumental in Kerrygold becoming first Irish food brand to exceed €1bn in sales

Liam Kavanagh, managing director of The Irish Times, presents the Top 1,000 Distinguished Leader in Business award to Breege O’Donoghue of Primark at The Irish Times Business Awards. Photograph: Kieran Harnett

Breege O’Donoghue named ‘Irish Times’ Top 1000 distinguished leader in business

Ms O’Donoghue of Primark/Penneys, is one of the most powerful people in Irish retailing

Ciarán Hancock, The Irish Times business editor; Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe and Seamus Hand (far right), managing partner at KPMG, present the Business Person of the Year award to Don O’Leary, Ireland site lead at Stripe, who accepted the award on behalf of Patrick and John Collison. Photograph: Kieran Harnett

Stripe founders take home top prize at ‘Irish Times’ Business Awards

Limerick-born Patrick and John Collison celebrated for building a $22.5bn business

Seamus Hand, KPMG managing partner, presents the Company of the Year award to Dermot Crowley and Stephen McNally, deputy CEOs at Dalata, at The Irish Times Business Awards on Wednesday. Photograph: Kieran Harnett

Dalata named company of the year at ‘Irish Times’ business awards

The Republic’s largest hotel group has more than 9,000 rooms across its portfolio

Paul O’Neill, editor of The Irish Times, presents the Local Enterprise of the Year award to Sam Dennigan, CEO and founder of Strong Roots at The Irish Times Business Awards. Photograph: Kieran Harnett

Strong Roots named Local Enterprise of the Year at ‘Irish Times’ awards

Having won over grocery retailers in the UK, the food company is now looking to the US

Ciarán Hancock (right), Business Editor at The Irish Times, presents the Deal of the Year award to outgoing Coillte chief executive Fergal Leamy at The Irish Times Business Awards. Photograph: Kieran Harnett.

Coillte wins Deal of the Year award at ‘Irish Times’ Business Awards

State forestry company wins for €136m sale of its stake in four wind farms Greencoat

Cathriona Hallahan, chair of The Irish Times Business Awards 2019 judging panel and MD of Microsoft Ireland, presents the CFO of the Year Award to Ken Bowles from Smurfit Kappa. Photograph: Kieran Harnett

Smurfit Kappa’s Ken Bowles takes CFO prize at ‘Irish Times’ business awards

Mr Bowleshas helped steer the company through what has been a busy period of late

The judging panel for the Irish Times Business Awards, in association with KPMG, from left: Independent director Mark Ryan; Margot Slattery, country president, Sodexo Ireland; Dr John Hegarty, chairman of The Irish Times Trust; Cathriona Hallahan, managing director of Microsoft Ireland and chairwoman of the judging panel; Caroline Keeling, chief executive of Keelings; Seamus Hand, KPMG managing partner; Martin McVicar, managing director of Combilift, and Ciarán Hancock, business editor at The Irish Times. Photograph: Kieran Harnett

Irish Times Business Awards winners cross the line

Five categories are Business Person of the Year, Company of the Year, Chief Financial Officer of the Year, Deal of the Year, and Local Enterprise of the Year.

Patrick and John Collison, co-founders of Stripe. Photograph: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The Irish Times Business Person of the Year shortlist

Patrick and John Collison, Dómhnal Slattery and David McRedmond won the award

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