Carlow based Company Sunshine Juice, a producer of fresh juices and smoothies and a former client of Carlow County Enterprise Board won the Ulster Bank Invoice Finance/Irish Independent Business Achiever for 2007. Its products are available in a wide range of stores, including Supervalu, Centra and Londis.  Aside from supplying retail outlets, the company also supplies directly to hotels, catering companies and wholesalers, including the BWG Group, with products sold in-store under the Treehouse brand.

 The Ulster Bank Invoice Finance and Irish Independent Business Achievers Awards were created to recognise and acknowledge   the achievements of Irish entrepreneurs, throughout the island of Ireland.  A measure of Sunshine Juice’s success is that they were chosen from 10 monthly winners in 2007.

 Sunshine Juice receive an advertising package to the value of €50,000, a business master class at Harvard University; a €25,000 two-year interest-free loan from Ulster Bank; a lifetime subscription to the Irish Independent and two years' membership of the Institute of Directors in Ireland.  Sunshine Juice was founded in 1998 when Paul Walshe identified a demand in the Irish market for freshly made juices.