SPECIAL FEATURES SERIES: KATERINA HOME MADE SWEETS LTD
2011 Chairman's Selection Ruban d'Honneur recipient, Katerina Home Made Sweets is a small family-owned and operated business that specialises in the making of traditional Cyprus sweets, jams and marmalades.
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SPECIAL FEATURES SERIES: ABDI IBRAHIM
Abdi Ibrahim is a 2011 Ruban d’Honneur recipient for the Innovation of the year award. The company started in 1912 as a small pharmaceutical laboratory and subsequently became the first Turkish company to be placed amongst the largest 100 pharmaceutical companies in the world.
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SPECIAL FEATURES SERIES: MACEDONIAN THRACE BREWERY
In this case study, we take a look at the 2011 Ruban d’Honneur recipient for Entrepreneur of the year award: Macedonian Thrace Brewery who was the first brewer to produce Greek beer and by doing so changed the beer-culture in the country.
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SPECIAL FEATURES SERIES: GRIPPLE
In this in-depth case study, the European Business Awards look at Gripple, a Chairman’s Selection Ruban d’Honneur recipient for 2011. Gripple is the worldwide market leader in the manufacture and supply of patented wire joining and suspension products. The company has customers in over 80 countries with key markets in the United Kingdom, Europe and the USA. Gripple is an employee owned business headquartered in Sheffield with 270 staff. With over 80% of sales outside the United Kingdom Gripple is the worldwide market leader in its segments.
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SPECIAL FEATURES SERIES: GAEA
Our second special feature case study focuses on Gaea, a 2011 Ruban d’Honneur recipient in the Import / Export category. Gaea was founded in 1995 with a vision to offer high quality, authentic Greek products to the international market, consisting of both innovative recipes and traditional ingredients promoting Greek meze as the authentic Greek Mediterranean lifestyle and cultural culinary experience. Gaea’s exports account for 82% of the company’s annual turnover and the company has presence across Europe, Asia, the USA and Australia.
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SPECIAL FEATURES SERIES: SENER
In the first case study of our special series featuring exceptional businesses, the European Business Awards take a closer look at SENER, a Spanish Ruban d’Honneur recipient for the Innovation of the Year award. Founded in 1956, SENER is a private engineering and technology group employing over 5,000 people. Of all SENER’s engineering developments, it is their thermosolar plants that include a molten salt heat storage system that are most innovative.
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Case Study: How one business took the advice of Frank Zappa and bucked the economic gloom in Greece
Demetri Politopoulos could not understand why a country like Greece relied on exports to quench its thirst for beers and did not have its own national brewing company. So he left a well paid job with a chemicals company in the United States and returned home to create the Macedonian Thrace Brewery.
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Case Study: How everyone profits from diversity
EBA 2011 Country Representative bauMax has made a targetted effort to have a more diverse employee base. Read how it has helped their bottom line here.
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