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201:. The company received the award for its support of the local arts, its statewide music festival – the Alltech Fortnight Festival – in conjunction with the Games, its annual Alltech Vocal Scholarship Competition and its incorporation of the arts into its Sustainable Haiti Project.
194:. Alltech also committed to sponsor the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games™ 2014 in Normandy. In 2011, Alltech opened the Alltech Algae facility, located in Winchester, Ky. and the company is pursuing algae's applications in animal and human nutrition.
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Business Person of the Year in 2012 by Business and Finance in Ireland. Also in 2012, Lyons received the Ireland-US Council's Award for Outstanding Achievement for strengthening economic ties between the United States and Ireland.
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in Dundalk while at college. Lyons also graduated with a Master of Science in Brewing Science from the
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