Connemara Seafoods wins Small Business Award

Connemara Seafoods has won the overall SFA National Small Business Award 2009.

The presentation of the award was made by Taoiseach Brian Cowen, the patron on the awards, at a gala lunch in the Mansion House, today.

An Taoiseach acknowledged: "The scale of the economic challenges now facing us in Ireland is without precedent, with national income set to fall by upwards of 10% over the 2008-2010 period."

Speaking about future Government plans he said: "We are reforming and restructuring across the economy to ensure that we emerge well-placed to benefit from the global upturn, with a focus on innovation and research and development, green enterprise and energy efficiency and high productivity employment.

"Future growth will be led by exports based on competitive strengths in these areas. The SFA National Small Business Awards provide further evidence that we have people with the drive and skills to meet current economic challenges with confidence."