A COMPANY run by Bray man Donal Murphy has become one of the first businesses in the country to achieve a new quality mark for the highest standards of service and trust. Motor finance business Bluestone Ireland has been awarded the coveted All-Ireland Business All-star accreditation-an independently verified standard mark for indigenous businesses, based on rigorous selection criteria.
The accreditation is overseen by the 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.
Bluestone has built a business from scratch since 2014, and in just three years it has exceeded €100 million in lending and has reached out to over 13,000 customers by taking a different approach to lending.
“We believe that the Business All-star accreditation is going to be a true quality mark for indigenous Irish business,” said Donal.
“As a business, we are very concerned with setting the standard, but those standards need to be constantly measured.
“We have been looking for something like this and accreditation process which is tough, externally verified and allows us to constantly measure our performance.
“The vast majority of our customers – self-employed, no financial track record, or impaired but repaying – simply could not get a car loan prior to Bluestone.”
CAPTION: Donal Murphy, Stacey O’Connor & All-Ireland Business Foundation Programme Director Elaine Carroll at the launch of the All-Ireland Business Foundation Accreditation, at Crock Park.
Entries Now Open! Register your Interest for Business All-Star Accreditation
This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings.
If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again.
This website uses Google Analytics to collect anonymous information such as the number of visitors to the site, and the most popular pages.
Keeping this cookie enabled helps us to improve our website.
Please enable Strictly Necessary Cookies first so that we can save your preferences!
More information about our Cookie Policy