The European Quality Award is now referred to as the

EFQM Excellence Award The EFQM Excellence Award now known as The EFQM Global Award is a quality award that recognises European businesses with "excellent and sustainable results" across all areas of The EFQM Excellence Model, EFQM Model. It was established in October ...

. 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 Total quality management (TQM) is an organization-wide effort to "install and make a permanent climate where employees continuously improve their ability to provide on-demand products and services that customers will find of particular value." ...

. The historical winners are: *1992 Rank Xerox *1993 Milliken Europe *1994 D2D (Design to Distribution) *1995

Texas Instruments Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is an American multinational semiconductor company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. It is one of the top 10 semiconductor companies worldwide based on sales volume. The company's focus is on developing analog ...

*1996 Brisa (Bridgestone) *1997

SGS-Thomson STMicroelectronics NV (commonly referred to as ST or STMicro) is a European multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company. It is the largest of such companies in Europe. It was founded in 1987 from the merger of two st ...

*1998 TNT UK *1999

Yellow Pages The yellow pages are Telephone directory, telephone directories of business, businesses, organized by category rather than alphabetically by business name, in which advertising is sold. The directories were originally printed on yellow paper, ...

*2000

Nokia Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications industry, telecommunications, technology company, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, originally established as a pulp mill in 1 ...

*2001 St Mary's College Northern Ireland & Zahnarztpraxis *2002 SAM Mouldings *2003 Bosch Sanayi ve Ticaret AS & Runshaw College & Maxi Coco-Mat SA *2004 Kocaeli Chamber of Industry & YELL *2005 FirstPlus Financial Group & TNT Express *2006

BMW Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, trading as BMW Group (commonly abbreviated to BMW (), sometimes anglicised as Bavarian Motor Works), is a German multinational manufacturer of vehicles and motorcycles headquartered in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Th ...

Chassis and Driveline Systems &

Grundfos Grundfos () is the largest pump manufacturer in the world, based in Denmark, with more than 19,000 employees globally. The annual production of more than 16 million pump units, circulator pumps (UP), submersible pumps (SP), and centrifugal pump ...

*2007 Lauaxeta Ikastola Sociedad Cooperativa & The Cedar Foundation & Villa Massa S.r.l. & Tobermore Concrete Products Ltd *2008 Bosch Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. & Bursagaz &

Council for the Curriculum, Examinations & Assessment The Council for the Curriculum, Examinations & Assessment (CCEA) is an awarding body in Northern Ireland. It develops and delivers qualifications, including GCSEs, AS, and A Levels, and provides curriculum support and assessments for schools. C ...

*2009 Prize Winners Only *2010 Prize Winners Only *2011 Bilim Pharmaceuticals *2012

Robert Bosch GmbH Robert Bosch GmbH (; ), commonly known as Bosch (styled BOSCH), is a German multinational engineering and technology company headquartered in Gerlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The company was founded by Robert Bosch in Stuttgart in 188 ...

Bamberg Plant *2013 Alpenresort Schwarz *2014 Bosch Bari Plant *2015 BMW AG Werk Regensburg *2016 Prize Winners Only * 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.

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