Belfast Watchmaker Wins €150,000 at Stelios Cross-Border Awards in Glaslough
Nomadic Watches won the €150,000 gold award at the Stelios North-South Business Cooperation Awards at Castle Leslie, Glaslough. A total of €500,000 went to cross-border businesses.
By the Monaghan Brief staff·Edited by Seamus McKenna·Published · 2 min read
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Belfast's Nomadic Watches won the €150,000 gold award at the Stelios North-South Business Cooperation Awards, presented at Castle Leslie in Glaslough on Wednesday, 28 October. The Stelios Philanthropic Foundation gave out €500,000 in total in the awards' second year.
The winners
Gold (€150,000): Nomadic Watches
Silver (€100,000 each): MartEye, and jointly Langtry Lane and Dae Ice Cream
Bronze (€25,000 each): six businesses in engineering, healthcare, recycling technology, drinks, food and support for mobile food entrepreneurs
More than 90 businesses applied, the foundation said.
About the gold winner
Nomadic was founded in Belfast in 2021 and is run by Peter and Jane McAuley, the Irish Times reports. The foundation says it sells to customers in more than 45 countries, and Dublin's Weir & Sons is one of its retail partners. Next month it opens a shop in Dublin city centre with Weirs. Peter McAuley said many of its watches have a yellow second hand that represents the Harland & Wolff cranes in Belfast.
Silver winner MartEye's digital platform connects farmers with more than 120 livestock auction centres in Ireland and the UK.
Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou said: "This year's winners reflect the wealth of talent and enterprise on both sides of the border."
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