Singapore Entrepreneurs

Now in its 6th year of promoting Singapore Entrepreneurship the Spirit of Enterprise Awards 2008 is now open for online public voting. Singapore. July 16, 2008 – It isn’t easy to cast away the perfunctory 9-to-5 route and live your dream. The Spirit of Enterprise (SOE) Awards was coined to salute the courage, wit and creativity of entrepreneurs who have valiantly walked their talk, even if it meant repeatedly conquering hurdles and pushing boundaries. This event also serves to inspire budding entrepreneurs who just need that gentle push to attain remarkable heights.

This year, the SOE Awards 2008 sees 144 nominees, interviewed by students from local tertiary institutions.

Your vote is an encouragement and an impetus. Join in the meaningful buzz by casting your vote. Voters can vote for a minimum of 5 nominees and a maximum of 43 nominees. Voting ends on 31 August 2008 and results will be announced on 10 October 2008.

Mr. Richard Eu, Group CEO, Eu Yan Sang International Ltd-cum-Patron and Past Chairman of SOE commented, “It is not the purpose of the Awards to sieve out solely the richest companies and adulate the people behind these, but to find people who have the richest minds, in terms of their ideas and attitudes. We all need recognition from time to time, and it is my hope that the SOE Awards would push our spirited honorees to even greater heights.”

Profiles of all nominees and their success stories can be found in the SOE website here.

In conjunction with the Awards, a new collection of success stories of entrepreneurs will be published as the latest in the SOE Books On Entrepreneurship series. The book will be released in October this year.

For more information:
Kelly Teoh
Spirit of Enterprise
Mobile: +65 9763 9054
E-mail: kelly@soe.org.sg

About Spirit of Enterprise
Spirit of Enterprise (SOE), an Institute of Public Charter, promotes and advances entrepreneurial spirit in Singapore by honouring local self-reliant entrepreneurs operating small and medium-sized businesses, and serves to inspire Singaporeans, especially the young, to become entrepreneurs by facilitating interaction, communication and knowledge dissemination between students, the entrepreneurs and the general public. Its key programmes include Spirit of Enterprise Awards, Student-Entrepreneur Programme, and SOE Books on Entrepreneurship distributed free to local university and polytechnic business school courses.

SOE is funded by the private sector and its board of governors which consists of established entrepreneurs, corporate senior management, students, public service and political leaders. For more information, please visit www.soe.org.sg.