The European Quality Award is now referred to as the EFQM Excellence Award.
This distinction is awarded annually by the European Foundation for Quality Management to the organisation that is the best proponent in Europe of Total Quality Management.
The first award was made in 1992 to Rank Xerox. Subsequent winners are:
- 1993 Milliken Europe
- 1994 D2D (Design to Distribution)
- 1995 Texas Instruments
- 1996 Brisa (Bridgestone)
- 1997 SGS-Thomson
- 1998 TNT UK
- 1999 Yellow Pages
- 2000 Nokia
- Refer to the EFQM Excellence Award page for the full listing
In the past, the award was given to organisations in the following categories:
- Large Organisations and Business Units
- Operating Units of Companies
- Public Sector Organisations
- Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) in two categories, 'Independent SMEs' and 'Subsidiaries of Larger Organisations'.
European Quality Prizes are awarded each year by the EFQM. Recipients are organisations that have applied for but not won the European Quality Award; however, the application was of such a high standard that the European Quality Prize is appropriate.
Famous quotes containing the words european, quality and/or award:
“In verity ... we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?”
—Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)
“A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.”
—German proverb.
“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)