Media Release 12th March 2025
JULIE AND OWEN MCLOUGHLIN THE WINNER OF THE PETER SHERIDAN DUBLIN CITY ENTERPRISE AWARD 2025
Dublin City based company; JANDO is the winner of the Peter Sheridan Dublin City Enterprise Award 2025. The prize involves a €5,000 investment in the company and sees it advance to the National Enterprise Award 2025 ceremony to represent Dublin City. The National Enterprise Awards Ceremony takes place on 22nd May 2025 in The Round Room, The Mansion House, Dublin 2.
JANDO is an award-winning Dublin- based printmaking studio founded by Julie and Owen McLoughlin. They create vibrant landmark and architectural themed prints. Committed to sustainability, they only use locally sourced materials and eco-friendly methods. JANDO are located in The Chocolate Factory in Dublin 1 and currently employ 6 full time and 2 part time staff members.
JANDO are also proud to be the the first B Corp Certified printmakers in Ireland.
Lord Mayor of Dublin, Emma Blain, said, “I want to congratulate Julie and Owen on being the winners of the Peter Sheridan Dublin City Enterprise Award. Establishing a business is a difficult task requiring courage determination and resilience. Hundreds of small businesses provide employment in Dublin, enhancing our communities. I wish them both all the best representing Dublin City in the National Enterprise Awards Ceremony.”
Greg Swift Head of Enterprise with Local Enterprise Office Dublin City said, “We are delighted that JANDO will represent Dublin City at the National Enterprise Awards Final in May. It was fantastic to see so many great small local businesses applying. I know that there was some very tough competition from the shortlisted applicants this year and I wish Julie and Owen from JANDO all the best going forward in the competition.”
Accepting the Award, Julie McLoughlin, co-founder of JANDO said, “We are incredibly proud to be awarded the Peter Sheridan Dublin City Enterprise Award for 2025! Opportunities like these fuel our ambition to continue to develop and grow our business. The ongoing support from the Local Enterprise Office throughout our journey has helped to make that progress a reality”
Among the special guests at today’s announcement were the Lord Mayor of Dublin Emma Blain, Richard Shakespeare, Chief Executive of Dublin City Council, Mary MacSweeney, Executive Manager, Dublin City Council and Greg Swift, Head of Enterprise, Local Enterprise Office Dublin City.
The Peter Sheridan Dublin City Enterprise Award from 2025 is being dedicated to Peter Sheridan, a long standing mentor at LEO Dublin City. Peter Sheridan passed away in April 2024. Peter was a champion of small businesses and start-up businesses at LEO Dublin City. Peter chaired the judging committee for the Dublin City Enterprise Award since it’s inception and prepared the businesses for the National Enterprise Award final. LEO Dublin City welcome members of Peter Sheridan’s family, his wife Collette and sons Dermot and Vincent Sheridan to join us and celebrate Peters great love of developing enterprise in Dublin City at the presentation of this award.’
At the National Enterprise Awards JANDO will be competing against 30 other finalists from every local authority area across the country for a share of the €53,000 prize fund. The overall winner receives a cash prize of €10,000, with category prizes of €5,000 and nine regional awards of €2,000.
***Images from today’s Ceremony will be circulated to picture desks by Conor McCabe Photography
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Notes to Editor:
About JANDO
JANDO is an award-winning Dublin- based printmaking studio founded by Julie and Owen McLoughlin. They create vibrant landmark and architectural themed prints. Committed to sustainability, they only use locally sourced materials and eco-friendly methods, and are proudly the first B Corp Certified printmakers in Ireland.
JANDO are located in The Chocolate Factory in Dublin 1 and currently employ 6 full time and 2 part time staff members.
With backgrounds in business, economics and finance, Julie and Owen always had a keen interest in creativity and design.
JANDO started as a passion project for the couple when they were planning their New York wedding and wanted to create something memorable for their big day. They set about undertaking designing a whole suite of wedding stationery including everything from a personalised hardback book wedding invitation to luggage tags and button pins. Owen has always had a passion for design, picking up and developing his skills along the way and this combined with Julie’s sharp wit and sense of humour and eye for the finer details meant them working together came naturally.
Further Information: https://jandodesign.com/
National Enterprise Awards 2025
The National Enterprise Awards are one of a number of initiatives that the Local Enterprise Offices run to foster entrepreneurship across the country. Others include Local Enterprise Week, the Student Enterprise Programme and National Women’s Enterprise Day.
Established in 2014, LEOs are an essential resource for any entrepreneur looking to start a business or any small business that is looking for support or advice to help them grow. The LEOs work with over 7,200 client companies across Ireland in a diverse range of sectors offering mentoring, training, networking, expert advice and financial supports to small businesses. For more information, see www.LocalEnterprise.ie/awards
Award Categories and Prize Fund
The 2025 National Enterprise Awards take place on Thursday, 22nd May in the Round Room at the Mansion House in Dublin and are organised by the Local Enterprise Offices
- Overall Winner, National Enterprise Awards 2025 (Cash Prize for business: €10,000)
- Best Export Award (Cash Prize for business: €5,000)
- Innovation Award (Cash Prize for business: €5,000)
- Best Start-Up Award (Cash Prize for business: €5,000)
- Green Award (Cash Prize for business: €5,000)
- Digital Award (Cash Prize for business: €5,000)
- Nine Runner-Up Winners (Cash Prize for business: €2,000 each)
- Runner Up Regions:
- Dublin City, Fingal, Dún Laoghaire- Rathdown and South Dublin
- Longford, Westmeath, Laois and Offaly
- Kildare, Meath and Wicklow
- Waterford, Wexford, Carlow and Kilkenny
- Louth, Cavan and Monaghan
- Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim
- Galway, Mayo and Roscommon
- Clare, Limerick and Tipperary
- Cork and Kerry
Local Enterprise Office (LEO)
Local Enterprise Office Dublin City is the First Stop Shop for information and support when planning, starting or growing a business. Local Enterprise Office Dublin City promote entrepreneurship, encourage business start-ups and develop existing micro and small businesses to drive job creation and to provide accessible high quality supports for your Business ideas. In 2024, the Local Enterprise Office provided just under 2 million in financial supports, over 1500 hours of mentoring and more than 170 training programmes to the business community in Dublin City. Local Enterprise Office Dublin City offer the following supports:
- Financial supports
- Training Courses
- One to One Business Mentoring
- Networking
Further information: https://www.localenterprise.ie/DublinCity/
