During the European Forum for New Ideas, KGHM Polska Mied¼ S.A. was declared the winner of the first edition of the Emerging Market Champions Award, granted by Citi Handlowy. This is an award aimed at leaders of entrepreneurship - Polish companies that have carried out expansion and are developing their operations in foreign markets.
"The aim of the Award is to honor Polish companies that are successfully developing their operations both at home and abroad, so that they become our business ambassadors around the world," says Slawomir S. Sikora, President of Citi Handlowy. "We want the presentation and achievements of the winner of our competition to be a guide and an inspiration for those who are still planning expansion abroad."
The idea behind the Emerging Market Champions Award competition is to promote positive practices in business activities at the international level and also to build up the image of entrepreneurship in the public consciousness and to break down stereotypes. The competition is held under the patronage of the President of Poland Bronis³aw Komorowski.
The President of KGHM Polska Mied¼ S.A., Herbert Wirth, who was attending the opening of a new investment in Chile, said in a video address to the participants of the European Forum for New Ideas: This is a special honor for us and for all KGHM employees because for several years we have been trying to embody the idea of being a global company, a company that has to compete on the international market in the field of copper, molybdenum, silver, and other metals.
Candidates for the Award can only be nominated by the Council of Experts - a group of key opinion leaders associated with the Polish economy and business world. The participants in the competition were companies that have operated in the market for at least three years, and whose scope of operations has gone beyond the borders of one country. The Award Committee chose the winner from among the 36 companies nominated by the experts. The evaluation of candidates was based on the following criteria: the value of investments made abroad, the nature of these investments, the scale of operations, the efficiency of the company's foreign operations, the geographic scope of the investments, and the innovativeness of the company.
