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GT Exhaust founder awarded with MBE

Gilbert Tunney, founder of the phenomenally successful GT Exhausts Ltd, has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours’ List 2016.

Gilbert Tunney
Gilbert Tunney

Mr. Tunney has made a huge contribution to an ever-evolving motor industry, whilst through a passion for his profession, Gilbert has become an outstanding ambassador for the very best in industry.

GT Exhausts, is unique. It is a self-financed and non-grant aided, family-run business, which continues to increase its sales turnover, over four decades of business.

Mr Tunney is the innovator behind its phenomenal success. It is his belief that innovation and creative ideas are found at the coalface of business, and he has spent a lifetime discovering pioneering solutions; it is this contribution to the industry that makes him stand out from his competitors.

Mr.Tunney is an award-winning businessman who, from a young age, has worked tirelessly, developing his principal business, from a small-town concern, to a lucrative multi-million pound company. His phenomenally successful exhaust manufacturing and distributing company, GT Exhausts Ltd now exports worldwide.

Through shrewd business acumen and a fierce ambition, he has had a profound impact on the motor industry and has provided much-needed employment all over N.I. Ireland, particularly in the Counties of Tyrone and Fermanagh.

He is an ambassador, of what can be accomplished, through honest, hard work and entrepreneurial spirit.