The second annual Business Eye Sustainability Awards, in association with Strategic Power Connect, will take place at the Culloden Estate & Spa on the evening of Thursday 9 May 2024.  

Local businesses and business leaders have entered a comprehensive range of 16 categories, including awards aimed at sectors such as food and drink, hospitality and tourism, manufacturing and retail. 

Following the success of last year, Queen’s Business School will once again sponsor the Sustainable Business Leader of the Year award. This award, aimed at owners and senior managers, recognises a business leader who has led their organisation to real sustainability achievement, and whose leadership can serve as an example for other business owners and leaders to follow.  

The 7 finalists for the Sustainable Business Leader of the Year category are: 

• Cubic3 – Roger Alexander 
• Vyta – Philip McMichael 
• Alternative Heat – Connel McMullan 
• Environmental Street Furniture – Alan Lowry 
• Express Merchants – Helen Jameson 
• Salt Communications – Nicole Herron 
• Larchfield Estate – Gavin & Sarah Mackie 

In 2023, QBS presented this award to the winner Ian Henry. Ian is a director of Magherafelt-based building company called Henry Brothers, an integral part of the wider Henry Group; a leading privately owned multi-disciplinary chartered building, civil engineering, manufacturing, and facilities management company.   

Sustainability is of key importance to Queen’s Business School. We are committed to developing leaders who transform business and society, fully recognising their ethical, social and environmental responsibilities.    

Additionally, our Student Hub building has been shortlisted for the Green Building Award, another category at the Business Eye Awards. This award is for companies or organisations that have invested in creating energy efficient, sustainable and low impact buildings. This could include materials used, renewable energy supply, water reduction, insulation, natural ventilation or ‘greening’ of the site. We are proud that sustainability, biodiversity and protecting our environment have been at the heart of the design and construction of our new Student Hub building.

We look forward to attending the Awards and celebrating sustainable businesses and leaders across Northern Ireland.  

To find out more about the other categories at the Strategic Power Connect Business Eye Sustainability Awards, read here. 

 

Further reading

• Talk to QBS about sponsorship 
• Sustainability at QBS