MEA Business Awards - MEA Markets

MEA Markets is excited to announce that the prestigious MEA Business Awards will be returning to our platform once again in 2024! This ever-popular programme is now entering its eighth consecutive year, and with each iteration we strive to make the latest version even better than the last!

The MEA Business Awards encompass the entirety of the Middle East and Africa regions, and as such are our most diverse and wide-ranging campaign. The team at MEA Markets work diligently for months in order to compile a comprehensive list of winners, where only the most deserving companies and businesspeople are selected for recognition. With our years of experience researching both the Middle East and African economic markets, we can successfully reflect the true nature and key attributes of this sprawling business landscape through the MEA Business Awards.

While individual MEA economies often perform at drastically different rates, the overall outlook in the region is positive, with most countries being expected to forge a path to growth in the near future. Despite ongoing turbulence across the global economy, the Middle East has continued to show strength in the face of these challenges – diversifying its business markets, embracing digital transformation, and investing in public service sectors such as Healthcare, Education, and Tourism. GCC countries in particular have striven to reduce their reliance on the dominant Oil sector by implementing government policies and funding initiatives to drive growth in other segments. Thanks in part to the success of these ambitious strategies, the GCC has now emerged as one of the fastest growing tourist destinations in the world.

For Africa, in contrast to the recent performance of the Middle East, the path to growth has been more staggered and uneven. African countries have had to contend with high inflation rates, political instability, and underdeveloped infrastructure. While this challenging environment has stunted GDP growth across the continent in recent times, looking forward the African economy is expected to recover over the next couple of years and enter a period of heightened growth once again. Through 2025, Africa will sustain its position as the second-fastest growing region internationally, with forty of the continent’s fifty-four countries’ growth rates set to outpace their 2023 levels. This economic rebound highlights the strength and resilience of Africa and its business markets.

For anyone looking to promote their services to a targeted audience of 80,000 industry peers and potential clients across the Middle East and African regions, taking part in the MEA Business Awards 2024 provides an invaluable opportunity for exposure. Our winners can take advantage of both free-of-charge and commercial marketing tools that have been designed to maximise the promotional benefits of the award. The impressive selection of advertising options we can offer range from editorial content, web articles, and newsletter inclusions, to physical trophies, digital badge logos, and much more!

If you feel that your business – or a high-performance enterprise that you know – are deserving of recognition in the MEA Business Awards 2024, don’t hesitate and get involved today! Nominations for this year’s programme can be submitted by clicking ‘Vote Now’ and completing the form provided. Best of luck to all our 2024 nominees!

The MEA Markets team work hard in identifying great businesses, driving many of the nominations themselves. The team encourage external nominations from the subscribers of the magazine, web visitors, social media following, clients and wider circulation. Nominating parties are invited to put forward either their own business or third-party companies whom they hold in high regard.

All nominees are formally requested to accept their nomination, nominees are obviously free to accept or decline if they so wish. Those who formally accept are given the opportunity to submit additional supporting information to cement their nomination. There is no obligation to complete and supply such material, we have found that many nominees value this stage, in the process, as much as our research team do.

Our dedicated research team will assess all information presented to them. The team gather information independently from a variety of publicly accessible sources, which are assessed alongside any material supplied by a nominating party or by the nominee themselves. The research team casts their final judgment, based on various criteria such including business performance, longevity, diversification, growth (either sustained or rapid), any significant innovations, feedback from stakeholders.

Once winners are selected, they are personally notified before any public announcement is made, allowing time for any communications throughout the wider business and the coordination of marketing strategies. Unfortunately, not everyone can be a winner; however, all who take part are encouraged to come back next year. Once the press embargo is lifted, details of our award winners will be made public via the MEA Markets website, award winners’ magazine and subscriber newsletter.

We offer a range of promotional packages and items to MEA Markets’ award winners, which vary from inclusion in the free-of-charge winners’ directory, to trophies, content in our magazine and on our website.

We encourage all winners to publicly announce their win independently in order to gain maximum exposure. Announcements via company websites, social media, via publicly released press releases, and through local and national press are all great ways of maximising the exposure which can be gained from such a great achievement. If you have need of further advice, on how to publicise your win, please feel free to get in touch. We are more than happy to assist our clients with their needs.

MEA Business Awards (2024)