THE RUBAN D’HONNEUR TO 60 OUTSTANDING EUROPEAN COMPANIES

 

Europe ’s showcase of business talents and capabilities are unveiled today when the names of 60 individuals and organisations that will receive the accolade of Ruban d'Honneur in this year’s European Business Awards are announced.

 

Based on nine months research and hundreds of paper-based entries, the first-round judges short listed ten finalists in each of the six Award categories. Adrian Tripp, Chief Executive of the European Business Awards congratulates: “I am very excited about skills, energy and ingenuity that our Ruban d’Honneur recipients have on display. These individuals and businesses demonstrate how even medium and large sized organisations can be agile and adaptable to rapidly changing markets. Our Ruban d’Honneur recipients are a great showcase of all that is good in European business.”

 

The Ruban d'Honneur recipients will now prepare to make their presentations in person before a further panel of expert judges that will include, many highly regarded, academics, senior business executives, industrialists, entrepreneurs and media commentators. The presentations will take place in the month of January 2008 in Paris and the judging panels will select an overall winner in each of the following categories:

 

• The CMS Business of the Year Award
• The Entrepreneur of the Year Award
• The Business Innovation of the Year Award
• The Growth Strategy of the Year Award
• The Société Générale Award for Customer Focus
• The Award for Corporate Sustainability
• The Business Leader of the Year Award (by nomination)

 

The recipients of the Ruban d’Honneur will be honoured and names of the winners of each of the categories announced on 11 March 2008 at the high profile Awards Ceremony held in the InterContinental Le Grand Paris in Paris and attended by Europe’s business and political elite including José María Aznar, former Prime Minister of Spain.

 

The European Business Awards is made possible by the commercial support of the following organisations: CMS Legal Services EEIG; Société Générale and TheWall Street Journal Europe

 

 

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About the European Business Awards 2008:

 

The European Business Awards was set up in 2006 to recognise and reward excellence, best practice and innovation in companies across the European Union. Extensive research and high standards of judging quickly established the European Business Awards as the showcase of Europe’s skills, achievements and innovations in the field of business.

 

The European Business Awards is a self funding venture set up and run with the support of forward thinking organisations ranging from: CMS Legal Services EEIG through to Société Générale and TheWall Street Journal Europe. Our supporters, from our sponsors to our advisory and judging panel members, believe it is right and important to promote and endorse business success throughout the European Union for our long term prosperity.

 

Uniquely open to organisations of all sizes and from any industry sector – public or private, the programme allows the best of European businesses to showcase their achievements and benchmark their successes against companies of all types.

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For further information please contact:

The European Business Awards

Giorgio Pirazzini , Project Manager – Public Relations and Marketing

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Email: giorgio.pirazzini@key20media.com

Or alternatively pressoffice@key20media.com

Visit: www.businessawardseurope.com

 

 

 

 

NOTES TO ED ITOR

 

Ruban d’Honneur recipients:

 

The Award for Corporate Sustainability: Acciona (Spain); Adnams PLC (UK); Allianz Group (Germany); Dexia SA (France); Enel spa (Italy); McDonald's Europe (UK) ; P & G Childrens Safe Drinking Water Program (UK); SCC (Portugal); The Carrefour Group (France); TNT Express (The Netherlands)

 

The Business Innovation of the Year Award : Amadeus (UK); Beluga Group (Germany); BT (UK); Daimler Mobile Kids (Germany); Deutsche Post (Germany); Grisoft (Czech Republic); Intamac Systems Ltd (UK); Lietuvos draudimas (Lithuania); Openet (Ireland); Sykes Global Services EMEA (UK)

 

The CMS Business of the Year Award: Bank Pekao ( Poland); Beluga Group ( Germany); CPL ( Ireland); Econcern (The Netherlands); John Wood Group Plc ( UK); Kenmore Property Group ( UK); SES Astra ( Luxembourg); Whessoe Oil & Gas ( UK); Wood Mackenzie ( UK)

 

The Growth Strategy of the Year Award: Bank of Cyprus Public Company Limited (Cyprus); CPL (Ireland); Infosys Technologies (UK); Kenmore Property Group (UK); Loyalty Partner GmbH (Germany); Petrotechnics Limited (UK); Photel Communications Inc Teleperformance (Hungary); Q-cells (Germany); Vion N.V. (The Netherlands); Wood Mackenzie (UK)

 

The Société Générale Award for Customer Focus: Aarstiderne (Denmark); Air Berlin (Germany); JSC SDG(Lithuania); Dell Corporation Inc (UK); Deutsche Telekom Kundenservice (Germany); Easynet (UK); GenSet plc (UK); Goetz - Gebaeudemanagement RSL gmb & Co KG (Germany); Isuzu Truck (UK); Loyalty Partner GmbH (Germany)

 

The Entrepreneur of the Year Award: Alexander Cimbalak, ACE Enterprise (Slovakia); Bruno Carvalho, Active Space Technologies (Portugal); Laurent Girard-Claudon and Jean-Christophe Murat, Approach People Recruitment (Ireland); Steve Leach, Bigmouthmedia (Scotland); Yannick Levy, DiBcom (France); Kevin Meagher, Intamac Systems Ltd (UK); Aliza Jabès, Laboratoire Nuxe (France); Nicos Petrakopoulos, Mellon Group (Greece); Peter Beckers , Vion NV (The Netherlands); Wojciech Pasieka, WP Investments Ltd (Poland)