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Limerick CEO Gillian Horan nominated for Entrepreneur of the Year Award 

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CEO Gillian Horan has been nominated for a Matheson Women Mean Business Female Entrepreneur Award 2022.

Limerick CEO Gillian Horan nominated for Entrepreneur of the Year Award 

CEO Gillian Horan

Gillian Horan founded brand consultancy The Pudding in 2016.

Gillian Horan, Limerick local and CEO and founder of The Pudding – an award-winning brand consultancy – has been nominated for the Matheson Women Mean Business Female Entrepreneur Award 2022.


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Taking place annually, the Irish award ceremony is hosted by WomenMeanBusiness.com. Founded by Managing Editor, Rosemary Delaney in 2006, WMB is a platform that celebrates female business leaders across a range of awards, including the Matheson WMB Female Entrepreneur Award. 

Founded in 2014, The Pudding is a brand consultancy driven by CEO Gillian Horan alongside her team of industry experts. Striking the balance between specialist business consultants and design, The Pudding has worked with homegrown and international brands, ranging from Kemp, Midlands Park Hotel, BDO Ireland, Sheraton, Lynoslife, Carton House, Adare Manor and Renatus, with a portfolio spanning private equity groups, large-scale multinationals and SMEs.

Speaking of The Pudding’s work as Ireland’s inside out brand specialists, CEO Gillian Horan says, “Our ultimate goal is to transform businesses by building brands with undeniable equity. We want brand to be on every board agenda. The context of this agenda item is to build a brand that your stakeholders trust and support, your people don’t want to leave and your customers connect with so much that not only are they loyal, they encourage others to be loyal, too.”

Their employer brand work has enabled them to work with some of the most influential brands, including Colgate, Smyths Toys and, most recently Blackrock Clinic. The Pudding’s 2021 ‘Powering the Freedom to Create’ employer brand campaign for WP Engine – the world-leading WordPress hosting platform – earned them an Institute of Designers in Ireland Award for “Use of Video in Design” in the category of Visual Communication

As an author, educator and public speaker, CEO Gillian Horan is a regular contributor to The Irish Times, Irish Examiner, and The Sunday Business Post, as well as joining the Image Virtual Business Summit in 2021, and being nominated for other accolades including the 2019 IMAGE Businesswoman of the Year Award in the CEO category.

Speaking of the Women Mean Business nomination, the Limerick native says, “I have followed Rosemary and her work with Women Mean Business for so many years, so it’s just fantastic to be nominated as a finalist for the 2022 awards.”

One winner from each of the five Women Mean Business award categories will be announced on May 16, 2022. 

For more information on The Pudding, go HERE

For more stories about Gillian Horan, go HERE

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