Are you a high performing African entrepreneur with a record
of accomplishment in business excellence and high social impact? Do you share
the belief that business is development
and that entrepreneurship is the key to
Africa’s economic resurgence? If so, then this year’s African Awards for
Entrepreneurship may bear you name!
The African Awards for Entrepreneurship (AAE), unquestionably
‘the Oscars’ of business and
entrepreneurship in Africa, is pleased to announce the 2012 Awards
Programmme. The awards will recognize
and award exceptional entrepreneurial leaders who serve as role models to
Africa’s aspiring entrepreneurs and who demonstrate business excellence, innovation,
and profitability.
In this year’s programme, entrepreneurs with a range of
business sizes from as small as US $500k to as much as US $50M or more in
revenue may apply.
This year’s awards have 4 categories:
Lifetime Achievement
Award – awarded to a senior African business leader who has served as an
entrepreneur icon for several decades and has left an enduring legacy of entrepreneurship
success in Africa.
Transformational
Business Award – awarded to business leader who has had a major
socio-economic impact in Africa by building a business with revenues greater
than US $50M.
Outstanding Mature Business
Award – First Prize: US $100k prize to a business leader who has built a
company with revenues between US $5M to US $50M. First Runner-up Prize: US $50k
prize to the first runner-up.
Outstanding Small and Growing Business Award – US $50k prize to a
young African business with revenues between US $0.5M and US $5M.
The deadline for
entries is 31 August 2012. AAE 2012 especially welcomes women entrepreneurs
to apply.
For more on the competition here: Africa Awards
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