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Perlon’s Pedex GmbH Wins Großer Preis des Mittelstandes Award Pedex GmbH in Affolterbach has been nominated for the 2021 ‘Großen Preis des Mittelstandes’ — a business award for small and medium-sized companies in Germany. The ‘Großen Preis des Mittelstandes‘ award has been the single most popular business award in Germany since 1994. The award is focused on evaluating businesses as a whole, not just on numbers, jobs or innovation. Every November, the Oskar-Patzelt-Foundation invites nominations of medium-sized companies for the competition from communities, associations, organizations and companies. The nomination can be for medium-sized companies from the industrial, commercial, service and trade sectors.
• Modernization and innovation • Involvement in the region • Service and customer focus, marketing The winner and the finalists are decided by twelve regional juries and a final jury. In each competition region, there can be three prize winners selected from five finalists.
• Overall development of the business
The announcement was made on September 18, 2021, at a gala evening in Würzburg, Germany. Jakob Jonsson (CCO) received the prize on behalf of Pedex GmbH, a prize winner for Hesse. Pedex GmbH is proud to have won the award and is looking forward to the announcement of the national winner which will place in Dresden on October 30, 2021.
• Creation and safeguarding of jobs and apprenticeships
To learn more about Perlon, visit www.perlon.com.
The businesses are evaluated according to five competition criteria:
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