Emerging Europe Announces Nominees for 2019 Awards

From a total of 949 applications representing all 23 countries of emerging Europe, 120
companies and organisations, spread across 12 categories, have been officially nominated for the Emerging Europe Awards. In addition, 23 investment promotion
agencies and 75 cities have been included in two research projects: the Investment
Promotion Report and the Business-Friendly City Perception Index.
Here are the Nominees:
1. Global Champion of the Year — a category open to companies from the region with no
foreign capital that strengthened their operations outside the region, organically or
through acquisition.
• Adamed (Poland)
• CCC (Poland)
• Blue Projects (Romania)
• Cleveron (Estonia)
• Grupa Nowy Styl (Poland)
• Inter Marine Group (Poland)
• LUG (Poland)
• PPF Group (Czech Republic)
• Valmera Glass (Latvia)
• Wielton (Poland)
2. Regional Champion of the Year — a category open to companies from the region that
strengthened their operations and/or expanded to new countries within the emerging
Europe region, organically or through acquisition.
• AD Plastik (Croatia)
• Conte (Belarus)
• Grampet Group (Romania)
• Itaka (Poland)
• Maxima Grupe (Lithuania)
• Mokate (Poland)
• OTP (Hungary)
• Sazska Group (Czech Republic)
• Tucano Coffee (Moldova)
• United Group (Serbia)
3. Foreign Direct Investment Project of the Year — a category assessing investment
projects which have had a positive impact on the country or local area in which they have
been implemented or completed.
• Aerostructure Technologies Cyclone (Georgia)
• Balfin (Albania)
• Bayer (Ukraine)
• Continental (Lithuania)
• Jaguar Land Rover (Slovakia)
• Mercedez...