Red Hat Czech Named Investor of the Year 2011

9 Nov. 2012 | CzechInvest, Ministry of Industry and Trade, AFI | The company won in the ICT and business support services category.

The title of Investor of the Year 2011 in the ICT and Business Support Services category has been awarded to Red Hat Czech s.r.o. The Czech branch of the American software company has been operating in Brno since 2004 and is the biggest Red Hat development centre in the world. The company won the award for an investment project involving further expansion of its development centre with the addition of 150 new engineers.

The Brno-based company Pixmania, s.r.o. won second place. Thanks to its investment of more than CZK 30 million, the company opened a development centre where up to 250 new jobs will be created.

The third-place award was presented to IBM Global Services Delivery Center Czech Republic, whose investment project is focused on providing IT outsourcing services such as administration, maintenance and remote support for customers’ information and operating systems, networks, databases and applications. The company will create up to 295 jobs within the project.

The results of the Investor of the Year 2011 competition were announced by CzechInvest and the Association for Foreign Investment in cooperation with the Ministry of Industry and Trade on Tuesday, 6 November 2012 at Veletržní palác in Prague. The decisive factors in determining the winners were the volume of the undertaken investment, its sectoral focus and anticipated number of newly created jobs in relation to the unemployment rate in the given region. Besides investors, awards were also presented to representatives of business properties that contributed to the economic development of the Czech Republic last year.

CzechInvest has been attracting investors to the Czech Republic for twenty years and therefore this year the traditional Investor and Business Property of the Year competition bore the name Investor and Business Property of the Past Twenty years and awards were presented to the most important investor and business property of the past two decades.

The main partners of the event were the ČEZ Group and ČSOB. CTP Invest was the partner. The supporting partners were the National Gallery in Prague, the agencies Quix and AC&C, Zátiší group and the Association for Recognition of Quality. The media partners were Czech Radio, Ekonom weekly, Prague Leaders Magazine and the magazines Project & Property and Development News.