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Aelia Receives All-Star Quality Mark from AIBF for the second year in a row

Our beloved Grinzing, located in one of the most beautiful districts of Vienna, has received a massive boost this week with one of the resident businesses achieving international recognition for excellence, confirming its highest standards of service and trust. Diego Zanella, the founder of Aelia, was awarded the coveted All-Ireland Business All-Star accreditation for the second year in a row. One might ask why an Austrian business, founded by an Italian entrepreneur, would receive such an important accreditation from a foreign country, and it would be a legitimate question. The answer is simple, yet interesting.

Some background story

Diego Zanella founded Aelia in Ireland, in 2013. From the first day, he founder focused all its efforts in producing high quality solutions, and offering top class service, to owner of e-commerce websites. Thanks to the flexibility offered by modern technologies, the business can operate from anywhere in the world, while still keeping in touch with its thousands of customers. Aelia moved around Ireland a couple of times, then, in mid-2019, Diego Zanella planned a relocation to Austria.

The All-Ireland Business Foundation came into play, just in time

At the beginning of the same year, he had submitted Aelia to the selection for the Business All-Star accreditation. He was supposed to receive answer was supposed within a couple of days, and the selection process take a few weeks. However, due to a technical issue, the submission remained “pending” much longer than it should have. As soon as the All-Ireland Business Foundation Team found it, they reviewed the performance of both Aelia and its founder. The score was high enough to place them amongst the top candidates.  Even though our founder informed the AIBF Team of the imminent relocation abroad, they were more than happy to let our application proceed anyway. Then, in October 2019, Diego Zanella received the first Business All-Star accreditation.

In 2020, the AIBF Team contacted our founder again. Although our Aelia and its founder are no longer resident in Ireland, their result were so high that the Foundation offered to make an exception, and participate to the selection again. Diego Zanella was given the opportunity to become the first “ex-indigenous entrepreneur” to be accredited by the All-Ireland Business Foundation.

Obviously, since we’re writing about it, the result was a success. At the end of October 2020 (yes, we’re a bit slow with news), Aelia’s founder received the accreditation certificate, confirming Diego Zanella as a Thought Leader in e-commerce and WooCommerce solutions.

Aelia - Certificate of Accreditation 2020

Aelia – Certificate of Accreditation 2020

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Gold Medal Ceremony was replaced by an online event. Our founder, Diego Zanella, attended it on the 30th of October, 2020.

The importance of get accredited for the second year

Like in 2019, we are pleased to have reached the high standard required by the the Business All-Star accreditation. We strive to keep high level of performance, trust and customer satisfaction that distinguishes our offer . Furthermore, we are the first to having been invited to participate into the selection, despite the business being now resident in another EU country, and it feels like a special honour. The All-Ireland Business Foundation is so impressed by our results that they would like to keep us in their register of top class companies. 👍

We would like to thank everyone for your continued support. Our customers, who keep trusting, our business partners, with whom we will be working on more incredible projects and, most importantly, our families.

Thanks again for your invaluable help. We wouldn’t be here, if it weren’t for you. 🙏

The Aelia Team

Business All-Star Accredited

Only 10 days until the Business All-Stars ceremony!

Just 10 days to go, until the Business All-Stars accreditation ceremony

As announced a few weeks ago, Aelia received the prestigious Business All-Stars accreditation from the All Ireland Business Foundation. The ceremony will be held on the 25 October 2019, in Croke Park, Dublin. Our founder is going to be there to receive his gold medal, as a proof of excellence. The people who met him know that he can be friendly and chatty, but in reality he can be quite shy. Let’s say that he is still undecided if he’s very excited, or just really scared. 😃

He put a lot of work, sweat and sleepless nights in building the trusted business behind the Aelia brand. We believe that he deserves the All-Stars accreditation, which he earned in full, as an official recognition of his efforts and results.

We know that we already posted this last time, but the accreditation certificate looks really nice, so here it is again. 😁

Business All-Star - Accreditation Certificate

If any of you wishes to meet our founder, please feel free to join him at the ceremony in Croke Park. As anticipated, the date will be 25 October 2019. You can all the details below.

Business All-Stars accreditation ceremony

Date: Friday, October 25th from 9am-3pm
Venue: Cusack Suite, Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland
Dress Code: Business/Smart casual

Car Park: Complimentary car parking is available in the Cusack Car Park. This is located off Clonliffe Road – turn onto St. Joseph’s Avenue at the Daybreak convenience store. See Map link here.

Programme

  • 9.00am: Registration
  • 9.30am: Opening Welcome – Elaine Carroll, CEO – AIBF
  • 9.40am: Alan Shortt -MC
  • 9.45am: Address by Dr. Briga Hynes, Kemmy Business School, UL & Chair of the All-Ireland Business Awards
  • 10.00am: Guest Speaker
  • 10.15am: Presentation of Business All-Star Accreditation to newly accredited companies
  • 11.15am: Comfort Break
  • 11.30am: Guest Speaker
  • 11.45am: Presentation continued
  • 1:00pm: Lunch/Networking
  • 1.30pm: Guest Speaker
  • 2.00pm: Presentation continued
  • 3.00pm: Networking/Close

Admission Tickets: Please note the ceremony is an invite-only event. We have made provision for one complimentary ticket per company. Should you wish to bring along your management team/guests/clients you can avail All-Star discounted ticket option via this link at €49 ex-vat (including lunch). Standard Ticket price is €149 ex-vat.

Thanks again for being with us in our adventure, and have an amazing week!

The Aelia Team

Business All-Star Accredited

We received the Business All-Star Accreditation. That’s awesome!

Over the past few weeks, our founder has been working with the All Ireland Business Foundation to achieve the prestigious Business All-Star Accreditation. The examination panel informed us that our efforts has been successful, and we have reached our goal. The accreditation is a great achievement, and a demonstration that we, at Aelia, offer to our clients high quality products and a top class customer service.

Business All-Star - Accreditation Certificate

Our founder, Diego Zanella, will attend the Gold Medal Ceremony on the 25th of October, 2019, at Croke Park, in Dublin, Ireland.

What this means for Aelia

It’s always great to see efforts recognised and rewarded. It’s also very exciting to know that we reached the standard required by the All-Ireland Business Foundation. The Business All-Star accreditation distinguishes progressive Irish businesses that meet a high level of verified performance, trust and customer centricity. Our efforts will now allow us to join unique group of excelling businesses.

Why we are so excited

The achievement will be celebrated at Croke Park, but reaching certainly wasn’t a “walk in the park“. 😃

We feel that this result is a tangible demonstration to our commitment in offering top quality products and services to our customers, as well as our collaborators.

We would like to thank all of you, customers, supporters, partners and suppliers, for having been with us during the past six years. Your continued support is what allowed us to be successful. We will strive to stay at the top of our class, and keeping offer you the great service you have come to expect from us.

The Aelia Team