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Top 10 Business Awards in Kenya
Businesses play a critical role in fostering economic prosperity in any country. Kenya is endowed with many enterprising businesses from SMEs to established companies that deserve recognition due to their outstanding excellence and immense contribution to the economy. It is for this reason that awards have been created to recognize, laud and encourage such enterprises to continue with their exemplary performances.
There are various types of awards, but in this article, we are going to look at the Top 10 Business awards in Kenya:
- Kenya Business Awards
This award is organized by The Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KNCCI). The objective of this award is to recognize the spirit of the people making a difference in the business landscape in the whole country. Kenya Business Awards aims to encourage the business community to get involved in thought leadership and business development opportunities. The accolades recognize both organizations and leaders for enterprise excellence.
- Digital Media Awards
It is an award recognition platform celebrating digital marketing and technology advancement in Kenya. Companies entering the awards are in the field of innovation, technology and marketing technology within the business field. With digital marketing exploding, Digital Media Awards is out to celebrate cutting-edge technologies in the business sector and the minds behind them.
- National Business Leadership Awards (NaBLA)
It is a prestigious Business Leadership event popularly known as the NaBLa Awards. It is presented annually to honour business excellence of SMEs, entrepreneurs, philanthropists and humanitarians in Kenya. The core aim of this award is to acknowledge and celebrate business leaders and enterprises that deploy excellent sustainability strategies to make a real impact on business and society at large. The award is sponsored by The Carlstic Group Limited. Currently, entries are ongoing for the scheduled 15th July 2022 NaBLa Awards.
- Banking Awards and Dinner Gala
This premier banking award was created to encourage innovation, prudence and stability in the banking sector by recognizing, awarding and celebrating exemplary performance in that sector. It is exclusively for financial institutions like banks. It has an array of categories to honour innovation across the banking sector.
- Company of The Year Awards (COYA)
It is a high-class corporate event run by the Kenya Institute of Management (KIM) which has existed for over 19 years. It recognizes organizations that have embraced Organizational Performance Index (OPI) Business Excellence framework where processes and systems are assessed and benchmarked against global standards. COYA seeks to promote and encourage best practices in both local and international businesses.
- SME of the Year Awards (SMOYA)
This award recognizes emerging Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) that have had an impact on the national economic development. It is also run by KIM, but specifically rewards small enterprises that are excelling in their respective businesses. The SMOYA award seeks to recognize obscure small businesses by putting them in the limelight in order to promote their brands.
- Bizna SME Awards
It is an initiative by Bizna Kenya, a leading marketing and business support provider for small businesses in Kenya. The awards’ programs seek to provide a platform for identification, recognition and celebration of successful SMEs in Kenya based on various criteria like performance, profitability, quality of product or services, customer relations amongst others. The chief objective of this award is to provide avenues and platforms for SMEs to grow and be sustainable.
- The KIM Annual Business Awards (KABA)
The award objectively seeks to identify and publicly recognize SMEs that demonstrate excellence and integrity in their management and leadership. In addition, the award provides a forum for participants to share operational and best management practices for the SME sector. KABA seeks to identify SMEs that have practical and result-oriented management styles and create local performance benchmarks, identify local success stories and develop case studies for peer learning and teaching.
- MSK Awards
It is an award by the Marketing Society of Kenya given to brands and companies that have successfully developed tech solutions faced by marketing professionals. The award aims to celebrate innovation and creativity in the marketing field which helps businesses grow. It is geared towards marketing professionals. At its heart, MSK awards seek to champion creative, adaptive and innovative businesses that find ways to create effective ways of providing quality services and products to customers.
10. Mombasa Business Awards
It is a premier business award initiated in 2013 to recognize the achievements and contributions of business leaders in Mombasa. The Mombasa Business Awards is the Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry flagship award that recognizes and rewards excellence across all sectors of Business on the Coast. It is open to all businesses within the region. The award brings together Mombasa business leaders, stakeholders and media for a celebration of excellence in business
