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Welcome To the Business Excellence Awards hosted by ACQUISITON iNTERNATIONAL Acquisition International are delighted to present to you the 7th annual Business Excellence Awards, proudly recognising all companies, businesses and enterprises from across the globe. Whether you are from a large conglomerate or small independent business, we look to honour anyone who has excelled in their sector. With our programme, we have provided our winners with the opportunity to be recognised for your perseverance and determination in these difficult times. Taking part in the AI Business Excellence Award programme is the perfect way to show your employees that their efforts are valued by the organisation, whilst also providing the public with evidence of your successes as a business. Notifying stakeholders of your participation in our programme indicates that your business is garnering the attention of third parties, and that word or your expertise, customer service or products offered are creating a buzz within the sector, industry or market. The AI Business Excellence Awards are a chance for you to reap the rewards your hard work deserves. Whether you have been in business for years or months, this is the chance to be rewarded for your excellence and passion, from a trusted source. Next steps and the Packages Congratulations for making it to this stage of the competition. As a victor, Acquisition International is delighted to offer you our complimentary items to help promote your award. This includes a completely free listing in our Acquisition International Awards online directory, and a copy of the official press release. The press release will be distributed to you in April which you can use for your own marketing purposes. Additionally, your company will feature within the winner’s directory which will go live on our website at the same time. You can also submit 100 words to go on your unique page, this would include a brief overview of your company and your website/social media links etc. This is a very useful tool and helps boost your SEO statistics. As well as offering these items, we have also designed several commercial packages, each hosting its own set of unique benefits to enhance your accolade and offer you access to our widely distributed and highly-anticipated awards publication. Our marketing team have designed various promotional packages (see below) to suit all marketing budgets, these have been designed to increase exposure, enhance your well-deserved success and drive new business for your company. Please review at your leisure and reach out to me if you have any questions!
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Cardiff Sports Nutrition: Best Sports Nutrition Retailers 2019 - South Wales Fund Dominion Management Limited
This team had over 10 years’ experience in the sports supplements industry and have the expertise to help drive clients to achieve their goals and purchase only the products they need. By providing excellent customer service, CSN proves that it is dedicated to providing sports nutrition supplements from the biggest brands at a fantastic price.
These strategies revolve around adapting to global changes within the corporate landscape, as Tim highlights in his opening comments.
“At Dominion, we can see that the world is changing, and it is changing faster than ever. As such, we identify global growth opportunities, which we call Global Trends, and invest in the companies driving them. Our funds offer investors exposure to all of the major sources of change in the world today, and generate returns based on this strategy. We believe that investing in the companies which provide the new technology and unique business models that enable global change, offers investors strong and reliable long-term returns.
Thanks to this approach, each of Dominion’s three core investment funds has been positioned for optimal exposure to the Global Trends in their respective sectors. The firm’s Ecommerce fund is dedicated to investing in the Global Trends underlying our increasingly connected world. The rise of a new global middle class in emerging markets, combined with new technologies, is driving a megatrend of demand for services and activity in Ecommerce. As billions of people increasingly conduct their activity online they cannot help but become enmeshed in the digital Ecommerce world. This activity can take many forms, like digital entertainment, advertising, payments, retail, and business-tobusiness activity. This fund focuses on critical network mass in key areas of the online world where our investment names can monetise online activity and demonstrate growth and strong cash generation.
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ince its inception in 2007 CSN has been working hard to provide clients with a vast selection of leading brand sport nutrition products.
The firm has an expert team who work endlessly alongside clients to ensure that they select the products that are right for them and will help them to meet their unique health and fitness goals. These staff offer experienced advice ranging from dietary information to training tips and can help recommend what products will be best suited to each individual and their specific goals as well as offering individually tailored stacks at a discount.
ince its inception Dominion set out to create a range of products that were good investment ideas. Today the firm also works hard to ensure that the funds it provides and the strategies they follow are simple for everybody to understand.
“These Global Trends, driven by demographic change, emerging markets, new technologies, and changing cultural habits, result in a critical conclusion for investors: products often become subject to forceful dynamics leading to accelerated obsolescence: today’s winner can be an obscure memory tomorrow, such as Nokia and Blackberry. This highlights the value of an active management strategy, which reduces the risks, as well as captures the great rewards that come from a changing world. To capitalise on these rewards, Dominion offers investors long-term exposure to these Global Trends, and many more. Investing in Global Trends with Dominion offers investors a long-term exposure to the structural growth underway in the world today, allowing them to reap the rewards of global change.”
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Cardiff Sports Nutrition (CSN) is Cardiff’s only dedicated sports nutrition store, offering leading brandsCompany: at Dominion Fund unbelievably low prices. As part of our showcase of some of this year’s Business Excellence Awards winners Management Limited Contact: we profile the firm to find out more about how it works to offer clients the selection and service they expect at James Greco Email: contact@dominion-funds.com prices which they do not. Dominion Fund Management Limited is an international fund management group specialising in long-term structural growth investing. We caught up with Tim Nelson to find out more about the firm and the secrets behind its success.
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Products offered at CSN range from traditional supplements through to nut butters, health bars and even innovative new solutions such as drug testing kits. The firm is keen to adapt around the latest industry trends, and as such it now offers an extensive selection of vegan products to cater to the growing number of sports participants who adopt a plant-based diet.
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“At Dominion, we can see that the world is changing, and it is changing faster than ever. As such, we identify global growth opportunities, which we call Global Trends, and invest in the companies driving them.”
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Each of these three funds uses the same approach and technology to ensure that every investor can rest assured they are receiving strong returns and a risk adjusted process, as Tim emphasises. Its Luxury Consumer fund focuses on the Global Trends in luxury goods and services. A growing global population, global GDP growth and increasing inequality ensure that the world’s wealthy grow steadily in numbers and relative purchasing power. Companies selling luxuries whose consumption share (by definition) increases with wealth will see steadily increasing demand for their goods, services and experiences. Dominion invest in those companies who operate business models that allow them to control prices in such fashion that they generate ever more cash, which can either be returned to investors or accelerate growth further. Typically, such companies operate well-recognised brands or IP, which are hard to copy.
“Best International Fund Management Group 2019” Finally, through Dominion’s Managed fund, the team invest globally across sectors in the most important Global Trends they can identify, offering investors a diversified exposure to Global Trends. In the long-term our investment names are growing revenue and profits well above global GDP growth, and this will in time reward
“Across all three funds we utilise Dominion’s proprietary stock selection system, which monitors a universe of over more than 5,000 listed companies. We use in-house screening tools to identify companies trading at attractive valuations, which are exposed to Global Trends. We then conduct deep fundamental analysis on the companies and the industries to confirm or reject the investment opportunities. Our portfolios are constructed of the best ideas of growth stocks we believe offer the optimal balance of risk and reward. We manage the funds pro-actively, constantly monitoring our portfolios and when necessary adjusting market exposure. This process involves utilising Dominion’s proprietary risk-management systems to maintain an optimal invested level.” Company: Cardiff Sports Nutrition | Contact: Marc Robinson | Website: https://www.cardiffsportsnutrition.co.uk Looking ahead, Tim foresees even greater success for Dominion and its innovative approach to investing, as he proudly concludes. “Ultimately, with more than 100 years of combined financial markets Acquisition International - 2019 Business Excellence Awards 63 investment experience, Dominion’s investment team prides itself on offering investors a unique and leading exposure to long-term structural demand patterns: Global Trends, which we are confident will continue to power ahead and generate strong returns for the investors long into the future.”
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Banana Island Resort Doha by Anantara
Company: Unforgettable Croatia Name: Graham Carter Address: 1st Floor, 415 High Street, London, E14 4QZ Telephone Number: 02080042345 Web Address: https://unforgettablecroatia.co.uk
Banana Island Resort Doha by Anantara is located on an exclusive 13-hectare private island. We profile this award-winning resort to find out more about the secrets behind its immense popularity.
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truly stunning setting, Banana Island Resort Doha by Anantara is a crescent of golden beach and over water villas just off the coast of downtown Doha. Accessible by private catamaran, the resort is the perfect escape for family adventures, ocean thrills or serene spa bliss. Guests can enjoy an iconic location with the little ones as they surf, dive, golf, bowl or cinema. There is something for everyone, and more adventurous guests can race across lagoon waters with a host of motorised water sports, whilst the relaxed can unwind in the Middle East’s only wellness centre in a resort setting, spread across lush botanical gardens.
With guests travelling from all over the world, the resort aims to offer something for everyone and boasts 141 rooms, suites, villas and overwater villas with private pools alongside 9 dining outlets, an Anantara Spa and a Wellness Centre.
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There are also three meeting rooms and one events hall. For families there are Kids’ and Teens’ Clubs, Bowling, Cinema, a Kid’s aqua park, Tennis court and 2 Swimming pools. For the adventurous ones, a professional Dive Centre, a two-lane surf pool and fitness centre are also available. The resort has also plenty of activities such as boat trips, water sports, bicycles and Segway rental so that it can meet the needs and exceed the expectations of each and every guest.
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Company: ASZarchitetti Name: Andrea Sensoli Address: Office 210 – 211, Building 8, Dubai Design District, U.A.E. Telephone Number: +9714 443 5180 Web Address: https://www.aszarchitetti.com/
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Based in Florence, Milan and Dubai and serving clients around the world, ASZarchitetti aims to offer its valued clients innovative creations divined from their passion for creativity and beauty in architectural design. We profile the practice to find out more about the stunning projects it has created over the years and how it is constantly working to grow its portfolio even further.
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ince its inception ASZ has focused on how to perfect the construction process, as the main field of expertise, at the same time working on architectural projects of various types. After some years of practice from the native office to the international stage, it was in 2009 that ASZ branched out to different continents, settling in Dubai first and Shanghai soon after.
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Today the firm operates from the resident branches of Milan, Florence, and Dubai, with a new office launching in Riyadh very soon. Each branch works in seamless connection, together with a network of engineering consultants throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Asia to provide their clients with a global outlook and exceptional quality support.
To achieve this, ASZ believes that, rather than just undertaking a simple task, they need to offer a comprehensive service to the design community, with one goal in mind: the pursuit of excellence. Equipped with their eclectic heritage, ASZ’s position is in projects is one that seals the rift between past cultures and future ideals.
Over the years the firm has worked on a range of renowned retail projects including stores for Kering, LVMH and Richmond groups, along with Prada, Tiffany, and Burberry. Altogether, the number of deliveries in ASZ’s track record exceeds 400.
As part of this approach, ASZ aims to immerse itself in every project, participate in the resulting transformation and make it systematic yet sustainable. The firm’s mission is to serve as the force that ties art with science and ideas with techniques; ASZ elaborates the
fascinating process that tackles the intangible and transforms it into an objective reality. ASZ’s professionals do so by making themselves interpreters of the client’s visions and create it from scratch, by applying contractor-based execution. The backbone of the practice comprises expert architects who possess engineering awareness and clever engineers who have the sensibility of design. Together, they understand what it takes to reach the end-goal, delivering unmatched quality in the respect of time and budget. Despite being known for having served the luxury retail industry, ASZ has also provided architectural solutions to private estate and commercial property owners, besides other businesses. They have transformed heritage palaces, converted vernacular bare sites into contemporary residencies and delivered houses, villas, and penthouses from Brooklyn to Shanghai. In addition, over the years the practice has branched out to help new retail businesses such as Oriana, The Kape, Todd English, Masel and many others to create a unique selling platform. ASZ’s new formula of integrated services combines Design Development with both Project Management and Construction Management. The firm’s specialized services spread from site surveying to MEP and Structural engineering; from Design Development to Local Architect and planning; from tender process to site supervision, to testing and commissioning and finally handing over to the client. Alongside the labour-intensive design process, the firm also offers budget estimates, procurement strategies, like solutions and materials selection, and approvals based on the region’s regulations and laws. As a result, ASZ continues to get involved in different concepts and themes and their target audience is set to expand over the many years to come.
“ASZ’s core values lay emphasis on impeccable execution: it aims to assist the world’s leading creatives in making the most of their innovations and ideas.”
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Ultimately, it is ASZ’s design philosophy that sets it apart from its competitors, and as such this will remain the firm’s core focus as it looks towards a bright future. The team aims to remain passionate about design and continue to offer its clients the exceptional standard of design that they have come to expect from this innovative and dynamic practice. Company: ASZarchitetti | Name: Andrea Sensoli Address: Office 210 – 211, Building 8, Dubai Design District, U.A.E. Telephone Number: +9714 443 5180 Web Address: www.aszarchitetti.com
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Company: Quastels LLP Contact: Robert Kay Email: rkay@quastels.com Phone: +44(0)20 7908 2559 Website: www.quastels.com
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uastels is committed to providing a bespoke, client focused, cost effective legal service. It distinguishes itself from other top law firms because not only do all clients receive partner attention, but their service offering is tailored to meet the needs of its clients. They provide timely, focussed, advice which has earned the loyalty of some of the most respected international businesses and individuals, they are committed to protecting their clients’ interests and providing the best possible advice. The firm’s principal areas of expertise are: dispute resolution, corporate and commercial, real estate, employment, and immigration.
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Company: Pro-Tech Enterprises LLC. Name: Jenny Tsao Address: 375 Morgan Lane, Unit # 101 & # 102, West Haven, CT 06516, USA Telephone Number: 203 931 9668 Web Address: www.pro-tech-usa.com
Pro-Tech provides parts for aircraft systems to commercial requirements including MIL-Spec, TSO, OEM, as well as PMA parts manufactured by leading manufacturers. As part of our showcase of some of the incredible winners of this year’s Business Excellence Awards we profile the firm to learn more about how far it has come since inception.
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upporting the aircraft manufacturers, airline maintenance departments and repair workshops across the world, Pro-Tech Enterprises is an innovative supplier or aircraft parts with an international reach. The company provides a wide range of aircraft parts, components as well as consumables for repair, maintenance and service. With thousands of parts from top-tier OEMs and suppliers ready to ship, Pro-Tech is a reliable source for aircraft maintenance stations, aviation repair services and major airlines around the world. The firm’s expert team are specialists in expedited exports and very experienced shipping to China and all of Asia. Many members of the team speak Chinese and the company has affiliations with many companies on the mainland of China to ensure it is able to support clients both throughout Asia and beyond. Thanks to its vast experience and streamlined procedures the firm is able to deliver any client a quality product with the utmost speed and at a reasonable cost. Combined with exceptional quality client service, this approach ensures that every client that works with Pro-Tech Enterprises receives the solution they need and the high standards of support they expect. Looking to the future, Pro-Tech Enterprises has many exciting developments on the horizon which will ensure its success for many years to come.
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