Utopia owner nets another award
Utopia Health and Beauty Clinic is no stranger to awards. Shortly after establishing roots in 2003 the Mecca for local beauty treatment was awarded the Irish Beauty Professional Association best salon, the highest accolade in the industry.
Now owner Anna Costello has upped the ante as she received the Business All-Stars Thought Leader in Cosmetology, Entrepreneurship & Innovation. This is a quality mark signifying it meets the highest standards of service and trust.
Utopia conjures up the image of a place of perfection. Anna's beauty emporium, which specialises in skin treatment, works very hard to live up to the name of the salon.
The Business All-Stars Thought Leader in Cosmetology, Entrepreneurship & Innovation is an independently verified standard mark for indigenous businesses, based on rigorous selection criteria.
Based in the Cavan Crystal Hotel Utopia Anna's business is synonymous with providing their client's with a quality service: “We are known for our knowledge and expertise, always striving to surpass clients’ expectations, to become better, because that’s what they deserve.”
Anne also coordinates the Training and Distribution Company, Newgenskin Limited, which she established in 2012. These are not the only strings to her bow. Also, in 2012 Anna Founded ACCC – Anna Costello’s Cosmetology Community where she mentor’s salon owners throughout Ireland and Northern Ireland, sharing her Award-Winning Techniques.
The Members of ACCC have all experienced growth, efficiencies and have created more jobs across all counties throughout Ireland.
The latest accreditation is overseen by the prestigious All-Ireland Business Foundation, whose adjudication panel is chaired by Dr Briga Hynes of the Kemmy Business School at the University of Limerick and Kieran Ring, CEO of the Global Institute of Logistics.
Dr Hynes said the accreditation, which is now held by over 350 firms, is needed by the thousands of small and medium businesses which operate to their own standards, but have nothing to measure them by.
“We evaluate a company’s background, trustworthiness and performance, and we speak to customers, employees and vendors,” Dr Hynes said of the process, “We also anonymously approach the company as a customer and report back on the experience.
“The business goes through at least two interviews and is scored on every part of the process against set metrics,” the Head of the Department of Management and Marketing and Lecturer in Entrepreneurship in the Limerick University said.
The All-Ireland Business Foundation is responsible for overseeing the All-Ireland Business Summit and All-Star awards, ongoing All-Star accreditation, Thought Leader awards and promoting peer dialogue among members.
The process to select the next group of Business All-Star accredited companies has begun and further information is available at businessallstars.ie