Investor of the Year 2010 and Business Property of the Year 2010 competitions have their winners
2 Nov. 2011 | CzechInvest | CzechInvest and the Association for Foreign Investment have announced the results.
Brembo, Edwards and NetSuite Czech Republic can boast the title of Investor of the Year 2010. These companies received their awards for newly created jobs and their benefit to society, among other things. The Holešov Strategic Industrial Zone, Strojírna Oslavany and the Business Incubator of the Palacký University Science and Technology Park in Olomouc were named the Business Properties of the Year 2010. The decisive factors in their victories were, for example, the amount of the planned investment of all investors, the promised number of new jobs and their benefit for the Czech Republic.
The results were announced by CzechInvest in cooperation with the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic and the Association for Foreign Investment (AFI). The awards were presented to the winners by, among others, Minister of Industry and Trade Martin Kocourek, under whose auspices the competitions took place, and Miroslav Křížek, CEO of CzechInvest, on Tuesday, 1 November 2011, at the Eco-Technical Museum in Prague. The winners were selected by an expert committee composed of representatives of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, the AFI and CzechInvest.
The competitions included six categories:
Investor of the Year – Greatest Innovation Potential
1. Edwards, s.r.o.
2. GENERI BIOTECH s.r.o.
3. Řež Nuclear Research Institute
Investor of the Year – Manufacturing Industry
1. Brembo Czech s.r.o.
2. FOXCONN CZ s.r.o.
3. AU Optronics (Czech) s.r.o.
Investor of the Year – IT and Business Support Services
1. NetSuite Czech Republic s.r.o.
2. IBM Global Services Delivery Center Czech Republic, s.r.o.
3. FNZ (Czechia) s.r.o.
Business Property – High-Tech Property of the Year
1. Business Incubator of the Palacký University Science and Technology Park, Olomouc
2. Innovation Park of the South Moravian Innovation Centre
3. Forum Business Centre
Business Property – Zone of the Year
1. Holešov Strategic Industrial Zone
2. CTPark Ostrava
3. CTPark Brno
Business Property – Brownfield of the Year
1. Strojírna Oslavany, spol. s r.o.
2. Třanovice Rural Industrial Zone
3. Slavičín Centre for Information Technologies and Applied Informatics
The evening was hosted by Daniela Písařovicová and the music group Lanugo performed at the celebratory event. CzechInvest perceives its activities in the area of corporate social responsibility as a long-term investment and a natural part of its operations. The agency administrates a range of projects which have an impact not only on employment, but also on the environment and the event was therefore held in an ecological spirit.
Investor of the Year and Business Property of the Year are competitions organised annually by CzechInvest and the Association for Foreign Investment in cooperation with the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic. This year the competitions took place for the eleventh time, jointly for the second time. The main partners this year are ČEZ and ČSOB, while the Office Islands project of HOCHTIEF Development Czech Republic served as the partner.Supporting partners are the QUIX agency and Zátiší Catering. The competitions were supported in the media by the weekly Euro, Czech Radio 1 – Radio Journal, Stavitel (Builder) and Project & Property magazines, and the monthlies Parlament – Vláda – Samospráva (Parliament – Government – Local Administration) and Development News. More information is available at http://www.czechinvest.org/soutez-podnikatelska-nemovitost-roku-2010.
For more information please contact the CzechInvest Press Centre
Štěpánka Filipová, spokesperson, phone: +420 296 342 538, stepanka.filipova@czechinvest.org
