The Grey EMEA Growth Strategy of the Year Award

Winner: : innocent drinks
London - UNITED KINGDOM

Marintje Stuurman of innocent drinks with the Award sponsor Carolyn Carter, President and CEO of Grey EMEA

 

innocent’s natural and healthy fruit drinks have driven huge growth in ‘smoothies’, 100 per cent crushed fruit and pure juices. Found everywhere from supermarkets to schools in the UK and increasingly in Europe, the range has 18 different recipes. Started in 1998 innocent has shown average annual sales growth of 77 per cent over three years. www.innocentdrinks.co.uk

 

The Finalists

 

AS Baltika
Tallinn - ESTONIA

Baltika Group is a fashion retailer operating 100 stores in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine and Russia that has seen average annual sales growth in access of 200 per cent since 2004. www.baltika.ee

 

Bigmouthmedia
Edinburgh - UNITED KINGDOM

Bigmouthmedia, a leading search engine marketing agency based in Edinburgh, London and New York, achieves high traffic and return for clients on global internet search engines. www.bigmouthmedia.com

 

EDF Energy
Hove – UNITED KINGDOM

One of the UK’s leading energy suppliers, EDF Energy has 5 million gas and electricity customers in a fiercely competitive energy market that can see 350,000 customers changing supplier every month. www.edfenergy.com

 

Elcoteq SE
Espoo - FINLAND

Elcoteq, a leading electronics manufacturing services company focusing on communications technology, is by net sales the world’s sixth EMS company and the fourth in communications. www.elcoteq.com

 

ET NETERA
Prague - CZECH REPUBLIC

ET NETERA is a leading e-business services consulting company focused on helping top-rank business clients to exploit information technologies and the Internet. www.etnetera.cz

 

Loyalty Partner GmbH
Munich – GERMANY

The PAYBACK bonus scheme, Germany’s most successful multi-partner bonus programme attracting 30,000 new customers a week, has made Loyalty Partner a leader in customer insight management. www.loyaltypartner.com

 

New Wave Group AB
Kungälv - SWEDEN

Torsten’s New Wave Group of companies provides a model of successful synergy across a range of complementary clothing and gift brands. www.nwg.se

 

O2 ( Germany) GmbH & Co. OHG
Munich - GERMANY

Mobile services and communications solutions provider O 2 Germany took its customer base from 3.7 million (2001) to 10.6 million (2006), representing average annual growth of 28 per cent. www.o2.com

 

Q-Cells AG
Thalheim - GERMANY

Ranking second in the world market, Q-Cells produces mono- and multi-cystalline silicon wafer based solar cells and is a strong model of Eastern German economic regeneration. www.q-cells.com