Entries for Entrepreneur of the Year close next month

Competition categories

• Emerging Entrepreneur: An entrepreneur who has been in their present business for less than three years on the date the entry form is received by the steering committee.
  
• Small Business Entrepreneur: A business, irrespective of length of time during which it has been active, with a turnover of R20 million or less in the tax year immediately preceding the date of entering the competition.
  
• Medium Business Entrepreneur: A business, irrespective of the length of time during which it has been active, with a turnover of R20 million or more in the tax year immediately preceding the date of entering the competition.
  
• Job creator of the Year: An entrepreneur that not only employs a significant number of employees, but also plays a key role in uplifting, up-skilling and training them. They help towards making a dent in the unemployment rate of the community, area, province and country where the business is situated.
  
• Innovator Entrepreneur of the Year : the entrepreneur who has the ability to:

  • re-invent the way business is done in his/her industry and/or
    
  • be innovative in the product or service being offered to the market and/or

  • finds a way of drawing the best qualified and technical people in the industry and keeping them because of creating a special environment where employees

Entrepreneurs interested in entering can enter online at www.eoy.co.za.