AS of Monday this week, five gold sponsors and one silver sponsor have been secured by the Solomon Islands Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s (SICCI) for the upcoming Business Excellence Award (BEA).
They are: ANZ for Large Business of the Year Award, Bank of South Pacific (BSP) for Business Contribution to the Community Award, NZ High Commission to Solomon Islands sponsoring the Tourism Business of the Year Award, Reeves Envico to sponsor Building and Construction Award, and New Britain Palm Oil.
So far only one silver sponsor and thats Trans Pacific Assurance.
The Gold Winning Award is SBD $25,000 with exclusive naming rights to an award: Award named after your business, and business logo on Award Certificate.
For Silver Winning Award is SBD $20,000 with Strong Branding Opportunities: Logo on Newspaper Ad and Billboards, Logo on select BEA marketing materials, Logo on Screen and Program.
Nominations due on Thursday 24 October, 5pm.
All members applying for an award need to be a currently paying member of SICCI. The nominee or nominator, both have to be current members of SICCI as well.
A member can nominate another member or can nominate his/her own business.
A member can apply for more than one award with just one submission and if he/she has further documentations to justify why he/she is nominating himself/herself for each award, he/she can add those as separate documents.
Gold sponsors can apply and self-nominate for an award except for the award that they are sponsoring.
Silver sponsors don’t have any rights for any particular awards so they can nominate themselves for any award that they would like to enter for.
The eighth awards night will be held on Saturday, 16 November at the Aquatic Centre at the National Stadium in East Honiara.
Tickets will be available as of next week but tickets and tables can be booked now.
By AGNES MENANOPO
Solomon Star, Honiara