GES Group announced as one of Ireland’s Best Managed Companies 2021
Company receives award for Gold
GES Group has been named as one of Ireland’s Best Managed Companies. The awards programme is led by Deloitte Ireland, in association with Bank of Ireland. The company, which demonstrated superior business performance for 5th year, was recognised at a virtual awards ceremony on Wednesday, 8 September.
25 companies have qualified for the first time this year. This year’s programme saw the highest number of new applicants in its thirteen-year history and culminated in a virtual symposium and awards ceremony this week. The winning companies represent 26 counties across the island of Ireland and come from a range of sectors. With this year’s new winners, there are now 139 companies that are recognised as Ireland’s Best Managed Companies. This network of companies has a combined turnover of €8.5 billion and employs a total of 40,000 people.
Ireland’s Best Managed Companies Awards programme promotes and recognises excellence in Irish/Northern Irish owned and managed companies and is the only awards scheme on the island of Ireland that considers a business’ performance from every perspective. Entrants to the programme compete for the designation in a rigorous process that evaluates the calibre of their management abilities and practices in addition to the strategy, capability, innovation, culture and financial performance of their companies.
Commenting on the award, David Moore, CEO, GES Group said: “It is my role as Chief Executive to drive vision and ambition with professional leadership throughout the entire company, with clarity of governance and compliance, and through the trust and ownership of my key management team.
Being brought up in a business and engineering childhood, I quickly accepted and adapted the desire for training and development in a future career ahead. Ever more so today is Management and Leadership training a key driver of our competitiveness and success and it is important that that message travels wide across the whole company for continued development. I have witnessed substantial progress across the company that reinforce the investment that we have jointly participated, in professional development where individuals and their depts. perform better, and where all participants embrace challenges present by the ever-changing market and economy. There is no question that the vision, good leadership and management practices that we have fully embraced have a truly significant impact on our organisational performance, both now and for the future. Thanks to all the team for their hard work and well-earned success in gaining the prestigious Deloitte All-Ireland GOLD, Best Managed Companies Award ”.
Anya Cummins, Lead Partner for Ireland’s Best Managed Companies Awards Programme at Deloitte Ireland said: “This year, a record number of applications to the Ireland’s Best Managed Companies Awards programme were received. The quality of the applicants demonstrated the extraordinarily high-quality businesses operating across the island of Ireland today. In a relentlessly challenging year, the winning companies displayed true bravery in how they adapted to change, with many innovating and some even accelerating their plans for their businesses.”
17 companies achieved Gold Standard at this year’s awards, having requalified for their fourth consecutive year and 12 companies were awarded Platinum Standard, requalifying for their seventh consecutive year.
GES Group are a well-established electrical and mechanical engineering company trading throughout the UK and Ireland, since 1972. We are an award-winning industry-leading organisation providing energy solutions to SMEs and large multinational companies across a range of industries in the UK, Ireland and beyond. The group has a strong and long-standing trading history in growth across a substantial number of industry sectors ranging from aerospace, food & beverage, quarrying and manufacturing to name but a few. The most basic plant and machinery, and the most advanced communication networking systems, all rely on a stable energy system. Today, almost all businesses are dependent on a steadfast and clean electrical supply – one that is well designed, maintained, automated & controlled, energy efficient, and mechanically vibration-free. At GES Group, we uniquely specialise in each of these aspects, which combine to build strong and reliable electrical and mechanical power systems. Using a holistic and full-circle approach, we provide for all customer needs in-house.
Traditionally an AC/DC motor rewind and re-manufacture specialists, we have developed our portfolio as a market leader to provide an extensive range of technically advanced products and services.
We pride ourselves being the backbone of industry.
