THE Solomon Islands Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SICCI) Annual 8th Business Excellence Awards (BEA) 2024 will close for nominations on Friday.
The nomination period commenced on Friday 27 September.
This year’s theme is “Navigating Business Through a Challenging Landscape.”
The awards cover a wide spectrum of categories and any business organization can enter.
SICCI Chief Executive Officer (CEO) James Dolarii highlighted that the Business Excellence Award is all about recognizing and acknowledging business contributions to the development and sustainability of Solomon Islands.
“It is a chance for our member companies and even those who are not members – large, medium and small – to be recognized for their outstanding performance and contributions to the business community, respective sector and the economy.
“This year, it is about elite business leadership, practices and performance in a challenging business environment.
“The awards provide the ultimate platform for improving brand awareness, loyalty and retention by increasing the respective organization’s exposure, recognition and prestige.
“The selected organizations are able to leverage their achievement through marketing, promotion, advertising and public relations activities including internal and external communications,” CEO Dolarii said.
The Awards category is the heart of the Business Excellence Award (BEA) 2024.
Previous BEA Awards only had 10 categories, including the Prime Minister’s Award.
However, this year SICCI announced that they have 12 categories.
The 12 categories of the 8th BEA Awards are:
- New Business of the Year;
- Large Business of the Year;
- Medium Business of the Year;
- Small Business of the Year;
- Innovation and Technology Award;
- Agribusiness of the Year;
- Tourism Business of the Year;
- Exporter of the Year;
- Entrepreneur of the Year;
- Building and Construction Award;
- Business Contribution to the Community Award; and
- Prime Minister’s Award.
By RAYMOND HULANGA
Solomon Star, Honiara
