LAST CHANCE TO COMPETE ON EUROPEAN STAGE

 

The European Business Awards is open for entries to companies from across the European Union until the 31st July. Outstanding European businesses still have time to enter and showcase their successful stories in front of the entire continent.

The European Business Awards is a programme which celebrates the most successful European businesses of any size and from any sector. Entrants will be judged on the basis of three underlying principles of success, innovation and business ethics, ensuring that young innovative businesses will compete alongside to giant corporations with equal chances to lift the award.

Group Director Mike Faulkner says: “Often companies are shy or think they are too small to compete. That is wrong! This is the chance for every successful business in Europe to shout about their own achievements. We want to hear inspirational stories of entrepreneurial spirit, business leader attributes and innovative thinking. The winners will stand as a model for the whole of the European market.”

Winners will be announced at an ‘invitation only’ event to be held in the Conrad in Brussels on 31 January 2007. The eight categories which will be the centre of the competition are:

• The CMS Business of the Year Award
• The Business Leader of the Year Award
• The Entrepreneur of the Year Award
• The Siemens Business Innovation of the Year Award
• The Grey EMEA Growth Strategy of the Year Award
• The Société Générale Award for Customer Focus
• The AXA Award for Corporate Sustainability
• The Lifetime Achievement Award

AXA recently joined the sponsor panel together with Grey EMEA, CMS, Siemens, Société Générale and the Official Media Partner The Wall Street Journal Europe. Claire Dorland Clauzel, AXA’s Senior Executive Vice President of Communications, Brand and Sustainable Development comments on the decision to support TheAXA Award for Corporate Sustainability: “AXA’s vision of its business of Financial Protection focuses on helping its clients to be life confident. We expect the AXA Award for Corporate Sustainability to be a means to support corporations which demonstrate strong involvement in managing social, environmental and governance risk prevention.”

A registration form can be downloaded at www.businessawardseurope.com or obtained by post by calling the entries team on +44 (0) 20 7234 3535.

For further information please contact:

The European Business Awards

PR Manager Giorgio Pirazzini on telephone +33 (0) 148 045 155

or at giorgio.pirazzini@key20media.com

www.businessawardseurope.com

NOTES TO EDITOR

1. Organiser Quest Media is a UK based agency responsible for the UK National Business Awards, the leading business success recognition event in the UK, described by Chancellor Gordon Brown as “ UK’s Business Oscars”

2. The smooth running of The European Business Awards is ensured by the Strategic Advisory Panel whose responsibility is observing, advising and commenting on subjects of significance to the programme.

The panel is comprised of:

Wim Kok

Former Dutch Prime Minister and former Minister of Finance

Viscount Etienne Davignon

Vice-Chairman of Suez-Tractebel, former Chairman of Société Générale de Belgique

Jon Housman

Managing Director, The Wall Street Journal Europe,

co-Founder and chief executive officer of Jungle Media Group

Lykke Friis

Prorector, University of Copenhagen, former Director of European Affairs at the Confederation of Danish Industry

José Luis Rodríguez

President of Nueva Economía Fórum and Director of the Circle of Trust and the Europe Forum, Member of the Council of Radio Televisión Española

David Midgley

Professor, Coordinator of Marketing Area at INSEAD, member of editorial board of the International Journal of Marketing

Ulrich Steger

Professor, Alcan Chair of Environmental Management at IMD, former Minister of Economics and Technology in the State of Hesse

Niels Bjørn-Andersen

Professor, holds Chair of Information Services and Director of Enterprise Management at Copenhagen Business School, former President of the Global Association for Information Systems

Ged Davis

Managing Director, World Economic Forum, formerly Head of Planning, Europe for Royal Dutch Shell

Josef Duchoň

Head of Unit for International Cooperation in the Ministry of Industry and Trade for the Czech Republic

Jean-Paul Votron

CEO, Fortis. Former CEO for Citigroup’s retail bank in EMEA