From left to right: Monica Kelly, credit controller at CDE Global, Ciaran Hegarty, senior design engineer at CDE Global and Claire Colvin, talent and organizational development director at CDE Global.
CDE Global, Cookstown, Northern Ireland, was recently confirmed as a Deloitte Best Managed company for the 10th year at the gala awards ceremony in Dublin in March. The ceremony was attended by more than 900 professionals from the Irish business community.
CDE has achieved Best Managed Company status every year since the awards started in Ireland in 2008 and is one of the only eight companies in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland to be recognized every year for 10 years in a row.
CDE has been fast growing overseas with projects commissioned and installed in 90 countries around the globe and this resulted in a significant growth in sales in recent years.
“We are delighted to have won the Deloitte Best Managed Company status for the 10th year,” Brendan McGurgan, managing director, CDE says. “This award reinforces our motivated team working together in a high level of excellence and ethics to deliver innovative projects and achieve our strategic goals, always keeping the CDE values at the core of what we do. We put our people first so consequently they put our customers first, making each of our projects unique and this allows our business to be recognized at prestigious awards such as this.”
The CDE team has grown over the last 12 months with the addition of 30 new people in the first quarter of 2017. The company has expansion plans in eight regions around the globe and this includes a new headquarters project in Northern Ireland.
“We are entering the most significant period in the history of CDE as we continue to build our global presence,” McGurgan says. “The approach we have taken in recent years has allowed us to establish the strong foundations in our key strategic markets that will ensure we are able to continue to meet our ambitious growth plans while maintaining the levels of innovation and engineering excellence upon which the CDE brand is built.”
In addition to the plans for the new headquarters in Northern Ireland, CDE has also established offices in Brazil, Australia, India and the U.S. to better serve the Americas, Australasia and Asia’s markets and these will continue to grow over the next few years.
CDE operates across 5 sectors: construction and demolition (C&D) debris recycling, sand and aggregates; industrial sands; mining; and environmental. The company delivered a wet processing plant for C&D debris in Stavanger, Norway, in 2015 and since then they have gained focus for their C&D debris solutions expertise especially in Europe and the U.S.
The Deloitte Best Managed Companies program has been promoting and recognizing excellence in Irish/Northern Irish owned and managed companies since 2008. The awards originated in Canada, where they were first held in 1993, and now the program is also run in Ireland, The Netherlands and Mexico.
“Ireland’s position as a small, open economy presents challenges and opportunities in the current environment of unprecedented uncertainty,” Deloitte Partner Richard Howard says. “In spite of the challenges presented by foreign exchange volatility and rising protectionism, the Best Managed companies have grown and they are continuing to demonstrate their resilience.”