Omnivent is specialized in modern ventilation and climate technologies to preserve potatoes, onions and winter carrots from the moment of harvest till product processing. The director of Omnivent Netherlands, Luuk Salomons, and Omnivent Sp. z o.o., Zenon Wisniewski, received the price personally from Ewald Raben, CEO of the Raben Group, which has won the award in 2005.
The Dutch Polish Business Award is an initiative of the Netherlands-Polish Council for Trade Promotion and Netherlands-Polish Chamber of Commerce in Warsaw. It is the tenth time that the price is being awarded. Next to the winner Omnivent also the logistics services provider ERS Railways and engineering firm Arcadis have been nominated for the price.
“The price is not just an acknowledgement of the remarkable performance that Omnivent delivered in the eyes of all stakeholders”, says chairman Cees Werff of the Netherlands-Polish Council for Trade Promotion. “It also forms a stimulant for their affairs in Poland, so has experience shown of other companies that have won the award.” Earlier winners were Lely, Kersten Europe, Raben Transport, Goossens Flevoplant, Addit, CoBouw Polska, Nijhof Wassink, Zeelandia, Dutron and De Heus Group.
Keynote speech by Polish vice premier
Janusz Piechociński, Minister of Economic Affairs and Vice Premier of Poland, as guest of honor gave a keynote speech at the award ceremony.
Piechociński is in the Netherlands because of a meeting with his Dutch colleague Henk Kamp, Minister of Economic Affairs in the Netherlands. They met each other in Poland last year in September. The visit to the Netherlands was aimed at energy, the internal market and the EU-chairmanship of Poland. At the end of June this year minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, Lillianne Ploumen, led an economic trade mission to Warsaw and Poznan.
Polish Business Monitor
During this event Ben van de Vrie of ING Netherlands, also board member of Netherlands-Polish Council for Trade Promotion, presented the results of the third Polish Business Monitor which is based on a survey of more than 100 Dutch entrepreneurs who conduct business in Poland. The experiences of Dutch entrepreneurs in Poland are positive. They are even more positive over future revenue expectations and employment growth than a year ago. That is mainly due to the economic success of Poland. “The Polish economy has experienced a good development with an average growth rate of 3%, which prevented them from coming into a recession. Also thanks to the scale of EU-funds the domestic demand remained stable. The budget deficit is in order and the public debt stayed within the norms of the Eurozone,” says Van de Vrie.
Dutch companies see Poland still as a growth market with increasing purchasing power and an interesting labor market. That last aspect is not necessarily because of cheap labor for production firms. “The broad availability of educated employees plays an important role to be active on the Polish market”, says Van de Vrie.
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Source: NCH
