New European Business Awards Provide Opportunity for Europe's Most Successful Businesses

The European Business Awards, with its Pan European panel of sponsors, advisors, judges and competitors proves that Europe can face new global challenges.

Grey EMEA and Société Générale have recently joined CMS and Siemens as sponsors of The European Business Awards, together with Official Media Partner The Wall Street Journal Europe. The prestige and innovative thinking of each of them will be an inspiration and support for the businesses who will enter, or have already entered, the Awards.

The European Business Awards is tailored to include companies of all sizes and from any sector. Utilising the underlying principles of success, innovation and business ethics will ensure that promising entrepreneurs can compete with multinational corporations and stand a fair and equal chance of winning.

Programme Director Mike Faulkner said: “Every single meeting with our sponsors has been enlightening for me and for them. They always have constructive suggestions of what we could do and what they could do to improve the event. In such a complex system, as Europe is, it is important to count on such a high profile and well-distributed panel of sponsors to penetrate the different realities that constitute the European arena.”

Another key factor of The European Business Awards is the composition of people committed in securing that the complexity of European cultures and tradition is assimilated in the Awards Programme. From the Strategic Advisory Panel to the Focus Group, it was important to select high profile personalities with very different backgrounds and expertise: from the political point of view Wim Kok, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands and Josef Duchoň, Head of the International Department of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Czech Republic will be involved. A media point of view will be secured by the commitment of Jon Housman, Managing Director of The Wall Street Journal Europe, 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 and Representatives of the National Media Patrons from a panel of European publications directly involved in the organisation. From the world of academia, Lykke Friis, Prorector, University of Copenhagen, former Director of European Affairs at the Confederation of Danish Industry and Professor Ulrich Steger, Alcan Chair of Environmental Management at IMD, former Minister of Economics and Technology in the State of Hesse.

The range of international individuals and institutions – both political and economic - committed to supporting The European Business Awards is proof that Europe can make the best of the complexity of its composition and differences in order to offer competitive and innovative businesses and stand as a united entity facing global challenges.

The European Business Awards are still open for entry in all eight categories before the entry deadline of 31 July. Winners will be announced at an ‘invitation only’ event to be held in the Conrad in Brussels on 31 January 2007.

• The Siemens Business Innovation of the Year Award

• The CMS Business of the Year Award

• The Société Générale Award for Customer Focus

• The Grey EMEA Growth Strategy of the Year Award

• The Entrepreneur of the Year Award

• The Corporate Social Responsibility Award

• The Business Leader of the Year Award

• The Lifetime Achievement Award

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 TheNational Business Awards, the leading event in the UK, described by Chancellor Gordon Brown as “ UK’s Business Oscars”