SME Category Award 2026 – Trinidad & Tobago Chamber of Industry and Commerce

ABOUT THE AWARD

Celebrating the contribution of SMEs to the TT economy, this award recognises the Small to Medium-Sized Enterprises (SME) that has maintained consistent growth and strong financial performance, understands its customer, has an engaged workforce with effective leadership, demonstrated effective use of technology/digital media to engage with all stakeholders (customers, employees, etc.) and is continually innovating to support future growth.

Companies that have shown growth in customers or revenue over the last five years in the services or produce sector will be recognised in this category.

The SME Category is broken into two awards:

Small Business Award

Eligibility: Open to all Trinidad and Tobago registered companies having a minimum 51% Trinbagonian ownership, employing 6-25 workers, and generating revenues ranging from TT$500,000 to TT$2.99 million. The company must be financially stable and operational for at least three years.

Medium Sized Business Award

Eligibility: Open to all Trinidad and Tobago-registered enterprises with a least 51% Trinbagonian ownership, employing 26-50 persons, and having revenues ranging from TT$3 million to TT$50 million. The company must be financially stable and operational for at least 5 years.

Each category will consist of one winner.

The winner will demonstrate how their business concept has met and overcome challenges, adopted a clear understanding of their market, shown innovation, built a strong team and has the foundations in place for continued success and potential expansion.

CRITERIA

Nominees must provide proof of the following areas:

Originality: Market opportunity that you have identified and how your product or service capitalised on it, as well as its superiority in comparison with similar or alternative products/services in the market.
Marketability: How well your company tackles the problem or market gap it intends to fill, the target market, and how it can produce profits or is self-sustaining.
Scalability: The extent to which your product/service can be easily applied to other similar markets beyond your immediate or local environment.
Employee & Customer Engagement: Must be a company that is employee and customer focused with tangible programmes that drive employee and customer satisfaction.
Responsible Business Practices: The ability of the product or service to create or effect positive and desirable benefit beyond profit within the target community and other stakeholders
Financial Performance: Evidence of your sales turnover for the last three years. You must also be able to explain how you have achieved sustained growth in sales and profits.

CONTACT INFORMATION OF THE PERSON/ORGANISATION WHO IS SUBMITTING THIS NOMINATION

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CONTACT INFORMATION OF NOMINEE

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SELECT YOUR BUSINESS SIZE:(Required)

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ENTRY STATEMENT(Required)

In no more than 350 words please state the nature of your business and the market in which it operates. Include any key business achievements that are significant for your market sector or industry.

CRITERIA

Originality(Required)

Describe the uniqueness of the product/service and its superiority in comparison with similar or alternative products/service in the market

Marketability(Required)

Provide evidence to which the innovation sufficiently addresses the problem it seeks to solve at a cost or model that is accessible to the target market and can generate profits or is self-sustainable. Note: Management accounts are acceptable for this submission.

Scalability(Required)

Describe the extent to which the solution can be easily applied to other similar markets beyond the applicant’s immediate or local environment.

Marketing Strength:(Required)

1) Describe and Provide evidence on how your product/ service is packaged or presented to your target market. For example - packaging, point of sale materials, advertising, distribution or company profile 2) Provide details on what type of advertising vehicles are used. For example - traditional, experiential, digital marketing inclusive of social media

Supporting documents / evidence (optional)

Optional: upload supporting documents (PDF, Word, Excel, JPG, PNG accepted).

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Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, xls, xlsx, jpg, jpeg, png, Max. file size: 128 MB, Max. files: 5.

Employee and Customer Engagement(Required)

Please describe your staff & customer engagement programmes or processes and how they successfully deliver the strategy or vision and enabled growth or efficiency.

Responsible Business Practices(Required)

Does the company or individual being nominated support or conduct any corporate social responsibility initiatives (CSR) or environment social governance (ESG)? If so, please describe your CSR or ESG initiatives and Responsible Business Practices (e.g., Green Agenda) and state the years of activity.

Financial Performance(Required)

Demonstrate your company's financial performance by submitting reports to substantiate the company's financial position by. a. Profit-and-loss statements for the last three years; b. Balance sheets for the fiscal years 2022, 2023, and 2024.

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Accepted file types: pdf, txt, doc, jpg, jpeg, png, , Max. file size: 128 MB.

Company Profile(Required)

Provide a profile of your company that demonstrates all the relevant elements and information about the company such as Vision, Mission, Milestones, Brand Story etc.

NOMINATIONS CLOSE FOR THIS AWARD ON JULY 24TH 2026 @ MIDNIGHT