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European Quality Award
The European Quality Award is now referred to as the EFQM Excellence Award. This distinction is awarded annually by the European Foundation for Quality Management to the organisation that is the best proponent in Europe of Total Quality Management. The historical winners are: *1992 Rank Xerox *1993 Milliken Europe *1994 D2D (Design to Distribution) *1995 Texas Instruments *1996 Brisa (Bridgestone) *1997 SGS-Thomson *1998 TNT UK *1999 Yellow Pages *2000 Nokia *2001 St Mary's College Northern Ireland & Zahnarztpraxis *2002 SAM Mouldings *2003 Bosch Sanayi ve Ticaret AS & Runshaw College & Maxi Coco-Mat SA *2004 Kocaeli Chamber of Industry & YELL *2005 FirstPlus Financial Group & TNT Express *2006 BMW Chassis and Driveline Systems & Grundfos *2007 Lauaxeta Ikastola Sociedad Cooperativa & The Cedar Foundation & Villa Massa S.r.l. & Tobermore Concrete Products Ltd *2008 Bosch Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. & Bursagaz & Council for the Curriculum, Examinations & Assessment *2009 Prize Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EFQM Excellence Award
The EFQM Excellence Award now known as The EFQM Global Award is a quality award that recognises European businesses with "excellent and sustainable results" across all areas of The EFQM Model. It was established in October 1991 as the European Quality Award by the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM). The assessment process is one of the most robust of any award, with a team of independent assessors spending an average of 500 hours per applicant reviewing documentation and conducting interviews on-site. Following this, an Assessors Feedback Report is created, showing how well the organisation is currently doing and how they can improve at a strategic level. The report is then presented to an independent Jury that decides the level of recognition for each applicant organisation. Throughout the process, the interaction with the assessment team enables an organisation to gain expert insights to tackle its future challenges. Award Categories The Award is open to orga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hibu
Hibu Inc. (styled hibü), formerly Yellowbook Inc., is a provider of digital marketing and advertising solutions to small- and medium-sized businesses across the US. Hibu’s specialties includes web development and hosting, digital listings and reputation management, search engine and social media marketing, and digital advertisements. Hibu is headquartered in Cedar Rapids, IA. History 1930–2001 Originating as a yellow pages directory publisher, Hibu got its start as a Long Island-based company, Merchant Advertising Services Inc. in 1930. In 1949, the company formally changed its name to Yellow Book USA Inc. In 1966, Post Office Telecommunications – a division of the UK General Post Office, launched the first UK Yellow Pages classified directory in Brighton, Sussex. Yellow Pages were rolled out across the UK by 1973, and became the first information provider on Prestel. Yellow Pages became a separately identified business within British Telecommunications, now renamed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deming Prize
The Deming Prize is the longest-running and one of the highest awards on TQM (Total Quality Management) in the world. It recognizes both individuals for their contributions to the field of Total Quality Management (TQM) and businesses that have successfully implemented TQM. It was established in 1951 to honor W. Edwards Deming who contributed greatly to Japan’s proliferation of statistical quality control after World War II. His teachings helped Japan build its foundation by which the level of Japan’s product quality has been recognized as the highest in the world, was originally designed to reward Japanese companies for major advances in quality improvement. Over the years it has grown, under the guidance of the Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) to where it is now also available to non-Japanese companies, albeit usually operating in Japan, and also to individuals recognized as having made major contributions to the advancement of quality. The awards ceremony is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award
The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recognizes U.S. organizations in the business, health care, education, and nonprofit sectors for performance excellence. The Baldrige Award is the highest formal recognition of the performance excellence of both public and private U.S. organizations given by the President of the United States. It is administered by the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program, which is based at and managed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program and the associated award were established by the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Improvement Act of 1987 (Public Law 100–107). The program and award were named for Malcolm Baldrige, who served as United States Secretary of Commerce during the Reagan administration, from 1981 until Baldrige's 1987 death in a rodeo accident. The first award was given November 13, 1988. By 1991, ''The New York Times' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Small And Medium-sized Enterprise
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) or small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are businesses whose personnel and revenue numbers fall below certain limits. The abbreviation "SME" is used by international organizations such as the World Bank, the European Union, the United Nations, and the World Trade Organization (WTO). In any given national economy, SMEs sometimes outnumber large companies by a wide margin and also employ many more people. For example, Australian SMEs makeup 98% of all Australian businesses, produce one-third of the total GDP (gross domestic product) and employ 4.7 million people. In Chile, in the commercial year 2014, 98.5% of the firms were classified as SMEs. In Tunisia, the self-employed workers alone account for about 28% of the total non-farm employment, and firms with fewer than 100 employees account for about 62% of total employment. The United States' SMEs generate half of all U.S. jobs, but only 40% of GDP. Developing countries tend to have a lar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Bosch GmbH
Robert Bosch GmbH (; ), commonly known as Bosch and stylized as BOSCH, is a German multinational engineering and technology company headquartered in Gerlingen, Germany. The company was founded by Robert Bosch in Stuttgart in 1886. Bosch is 92% owned by Robert Bosch Stiftung, a charitable institution. Although the charity is funded by owning the vast majority of shares, it has no voting rights and is involved in health and social causes unrelated to Bosch’s business. Bosch's core operating areas are spread across four business sectors: mobility (hardware and software), consumer goods (including household appliances and power tools), industrial technology (including drive and control) and energy and building technology. History 1886–1920 The company started in a backyard in Stuttgart-West as the ''Werkstätte für Feinmechanik und Elektrotechnik'' (''Workshop for Precision Mechanics and Electrical Engineering'') on 15 November 1886. The next year Bosch presented a low v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Council For The Curriculum, Examinations & Assessment
The Council for the Curriculum, Examinations & Assessment (CCEA) is a Non-departmental public body (NDPB) of the Department of Education (Northern Ireland). Its function and purpose is described in Part VIII of the Education (NI) Order 1998. CCEA's duties and functions are to: * keep under review all aspects of the curriculum, examinations and assessment for grant aided schools and colleges of further education and to undertake statutory consultation on proposals relating to legislation; * advise the DE on matters concerned with the curriculum, assessment, examinations and external qualifications and accredit and approve qualifications; * conduct and moderate examinations and assessments, ensuring that standards are recognised as equivalent to standards of examinations and assessments conducted by other bodies or authorities exercising similar functions in the United Kingdom; * publish and disseminate information relating to the curriculum, assessment and examinations; * develop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villa Massa Limoncello
Villa Massa (30% alc/vol) is a brand of limoncello (sweet lemon liqueur) produced in the Sorrento peninsula of the region of Campania, Italy. History The production company for ''Villa Massa'' was founded in 1991 by brothers Stefano and Sergio Massa, from Sorrento. The recipe for the liqueur ''Villa Massa'' has its origins in a family recipe from 1890, made with fresh lemons from the Massa family grove. The Villa Massa estate, one of the agricultural and residential properties of the Massa family, is found in the Piano di Sorrento, in the center of the Sorrentine peninsula near the city of Naples. In 2000, the oval lemons of Sorrento (in Italian, limone di Sorrento), used in the production of Villa Massa Limoncello, were registered as a Protected Geographical Indication (P.G.I.) by the European Union. In 2006, the liqueur made from these lemons was registered as "Liquore di Limone di Sorrento". Since 2006, the company is part of the family owned Grupo Zamora S.L.U. Production ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grundfos
Grundfos () is the largest pump manufacturer in the world, based in Denmark, with more than 19,000 employees globally. The annual production of more than 16 million pump units, circulator pumps (UP), submersible pumps (SP), and centrifugal pumps (CR). Grundfos also produces electric motors for the pumps as well as electric motors for separate merchandising. Grundfos develops and sells electronics for controls for pumps and other systems. History Grundfos was established in 1945 in Bjerringbro by the late Poul Due Jensen. He gave his company the name of "Bjerringbro Pressestøberi og Maskinfabrik" (Bjerringbro Die-Casting and Machine Factory) and not until 1967, after several changes of names, did the company get its present name. Ownership The Poul Due Jensen Foundation was established as a self-governing institution in 1975. Today, the foundation owns about 86 per cent, staff about 2 per cent and the founder's family about 12 per cent of shares in Grundfos Holding A/S. The aim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TNT Express
TNT Express was an international courier delivery services company with its headquarters in Hoofddorp, Netherlands. History The namesake Thomas Nationwide Transport grandfather company was originally started in 1946 with a single truck in Adelaide, South Australia. On 26 May 2011, TNT Express separated from its parent company, TNT NV, being listing on the Euronext Amsterdam. TNT NV subsequently renamed itself PostNL. In March 2012, UPS announced its intention to acquire TNT Express for . However, the deal fell through in January 2013, after it was announced that UPS had failed to obtain permission from the European Commission, and as such, had been blocked on competition grounds. In April 2015, FedEx announced its agreed intention to buy TNT Express for , as it looked to expand its operations in Europe. The European Commission launched an investigation into the planned acquisition and on 8 January 2016, approved the deal. The transaction was complete 25 May 2016. In Augu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FirstPlus Financial Group
FirstPlus Financial Group is a Texas-based mortgage company traded under the symbol FPFX. In 2011, a number of indictments and other legal actions showed that the firm had been taken over by Lucchese crime family by the use of threats and violence. They were able to remove the firm's entire board of directors and managers, replacing them with their own. At one point, the company had Vice President Dan Quayle as a members of its (legitimate) board of directors. American football player Dan Marino once served as its TV spokesman. According to the company, in June 2007 the gangsters forced the firm to purchase several firms under very unfavorable terms. They may have looted $12 million from shareholders. On June 24, 2011, the firm filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11. In 2014, mobsters William and James Maxwell were convicted for organizing crime, among other charges, having been accused of racketeering fraud and bribery for their involvement in unlawfully taki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Runshaw College
Runshaw College is a further and higher education college based at three centres in Leyland and Chorley, Lancashire, England. History Runshaw College was established in 1974. It initially catered solely for school leavers from Balshaw's High School in Leyland, and Parklands High School in Chorley. In 1983 it became a tertiary college following a reorganisation by Lancashire's education authority. Locations Its main campus, in Leyland, is a sixth form college catering for students aged 16–19. The Euxton Lane, Chorley, campus is the centre for adult and higher education. The site also hosts the Runshaw Business Centre, meeting the needs of local small and medium-sized enterprises; and Runshaw Training, offering apprenticeships and vocational training. Leyland Campus The Leyland Campus has 12 buildings plus a student services center, three sports courts and a public restaurant alongside the numerous student restaurants. Runshaw's buildings are named after areas of the La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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