13 January 2015
Forbes Bulgaria handed out for fourth consecutive year its business awards that distinguish good business practices and encourage the entrepreneurial spirit in Bulgaria.
Late last night on the official ceremony in Kempinski Hotel Zografski in Sofia, Forbes announced the winners in the eight categories of Forbes Business Awards 2014.
In the competiton, which purpose was to highlight the good bussines practics and entrepreneurial spirit, 55 companies took place in it. Their candidatures were examined and estimated by an independent jury, compounded by experts, enterpreneurs and manager.
Forbes gave award in eight different categories:
Client Policy, Business Development, Excellence in Products, Excellence in Products, Employee of the Year, People Development, Best Startup, Community Involvement Award.
This year the big winner is the outsourcing company 60K, which won awards in 5 categories and first place in category Employee of the Year. The most statuettes were taken by the software company Telerik which won the first places in categories of Business Development and Excellence in Products and took special award Deal of the year. Two first places (in categories People Development and Excellence in Products) were won by Musala Soft, which develop software products and outsourcing.
On the ceremony attended all finalists, gests, sponsors and the members of the jury. Guest of honor at the event was Ivaylo Penchev, founder of Walltopia, producer of climbing walls.
The winning comapnies in all eight cayegories are:
• Client Policy
I-st place All Channels Communication
II-nd place Unique Estates
III-d place 60K
• Business Development
I-st place Telerik: A Progress Software Company
II-nd place ScaleFocus
III-d place All Channels Communication
• Excellence in Products
I-st place Telerik: A Progress Software Company
II-nd place Panteley Toshev
III-d place Marisan and Kolev
• Excellence in Services
I-st place Musala Soft
II-nd place ScaleFocus
III-d place 60K
III-d place Unique Estates
• Employee of the Year
I-st place Stefan Stoyanovski, operations manager, 60K
II-nd place Veselin Georgiev chef technical director, JobTiger
III-d place Kameliya Maneva, manager “Online marketing”, FoodPanda Bulgaria
• Community Involvement Award
I-st place Aurubis Bulgaria
I-st place VM Ware
III-d place 60K
• Best Startup
I-st place NetIX Communications
II-nd place SkimProt
III-d place Transmetrics
• People Development
I-st place Musala Soft
II-nd place ScaleFocus
III-d place 60K
Forbes Bulgaria presented three special awards:
Deal of the year- Telerik
NGO of the year – Zaedno v chas (Teach for Bulgaria)
Special award for quality – Refan Bulgaria
The event was realized with general sponsorship of Mtel and the kind support of Dinevi Group, Post Bank, EY Bulgaria, Turkish Airlines, Trader.bg and Captain Cook.
