The winners of DCCI Irish Business Design Challenge 2025 (IBDC) were announced today at an awards ceremony in Trinity Portal at the Grand Canal Docks in Dublin.
Winners:
The micro category winner was CHANGE CLOTHES, a community-based clothing reuse hub in Dublin 8, and the small category winner was The Rediscovery Centre, the National Centre for the Circular Economy in Ireland, in Ballymun, Dublin. Each winner received €20,000.
Runners-up:
The two runners-up were; in the small category, McWilliam Bags – a Cork-based company making handmade bags – and in the micro category, Gemell, a Dublin based company that builds software for the fabric industry. Each runner up received €5,000.
Small and micro businesses, which form the backbone of the Irish economy, gain a particularly valuable opportunity through these awards to present their work more broadly and to be recognised for their contribution to local communities as well as national growth.
Peter Burke
Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment
33 businesses from across Ireland entered and eight companies were shortlisted in this year’s awards.
Supported by the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment, the IBDC awards, which has a prize fund of €50,000, is a competition aimed at micro and small Irish businesses from all sectors.
Now in its fifth year, it aims to highlight businesses that are committed to innovation and sustainable design and have developed products, services or strategies to enable this.
The Irish Business Design Challenge took place as part of DCCI Irish Design Week 2025, which runs from 17th – 21st November.
