What's the news?
The European Business Awards, sponsored by RSM International, has named Joe Duffy Motor Group as National Champion for Ireland in the Customer Focus category and will move forward to the second phase of the awards. Now in its eighth year, the European Business Awards engages with over 24,000 businesses from 33 countries.
Following the award, Adrian Tripp, CEO of the European Business Awards said: "it is a great achievement to be named National Champion and we wish them luck in the next stage. The European Business Awards is going from strength to strength, inspiring businesses to greater success and helping to improve the competitive edge of companies across Europe."
Gavin Hydes, Group Managing Director for Joe Duffy added: "We are very proud to be selected to represent Ireland as a National Champion. This is a prestigious accolade recognising Europe's most dynamic companies that have continued to grow and develop in spite of an extremely challenging economic climate. We are now looking forward to the next round of the judging process, where we can explain in more depth, how we are achieving business success and continued growth based on our strategy of customer focus and staff engagement."
Anything else?
The Joe Duffy Motor Group was first established in 1972 as a BMW dealership. Since then it has grown to become one of the largest employers in the automotive industry in Dublin with close to 300 staff spread across seven locations representing Audi, BMW, BMW i, BMW Motorrad, Ford, Land Rover, Mazda, MINI, Porsche, SEAT, Volvo and Volkswagen.