LINZ. On the final day, the applicants trundled in almost every minute. Many companies have applied for the 29th edition of the Pegasus business award. The motto this year is: “Invest in the future”. Now the jury meets. The finalists will be presented on April 30th.
Among the contenders for the coveted trophy: Schwarzmuller with headquarters in Freinberg. Established 150 years ago as a simple forge workshop, the body specialist has long been a full-service provider for commercial vehicles.
The BMD system house with managing director Markus Knasmuller at the top and company headquarters in Steyr has developed from a small distributor and rental company for office computers to a leading international manufacturer of accounting software.
Another applicant is the machine and plant assembly group winter climber from Ried im Innkreis (with the board duo Florestan by Boxberg and Harold Koska). They designed the Cubasan cube-shaped germicidal device that can purify air during the pandemic. Launched in 2021, the product is now used in a wide variety of industries.
Another applicant: Strasser Steine from St. Martin im Mühlkreis. Since the acquisition in 2005 by Johannes Artmayr it has developed into the leading company for natural stone and ceramic tiles in Central Europe.
Economic woman power comes from Melanie Hofinger, owner of Meritas Holding. She has worked her way up from the former employee of the former Veritas bookstore to the manager of now seven regional bookstores.
The mattress specialist leaves with a high-quality baby mattress in which leftover foam and cuts are processed dreamland into the race. Incidentally, the Hofkirchners buy their fibers from another contender for the Pegasus: the fiber manufacturer Lenzing is back in the running for the trophy with his new CEO Stephan Sielaff.
The slaughterhouse Großfurtner is applying to be the innovation emperor with its own power supply, which was only completed in January. In this category, as well as in the Beacons and Success Stories category, is the IFN group from Traun, who has already made it onto the winner’s podium.
The Schörfling-based company is applying with a research quota of between six and nine percent of sales Evonikwhich, with its fibers, helps filters to be highly effective.
His success story tells that Autohaus Leeb in Wels: Founded in 1979 in Gallspach by Johann and Regina Leeb, 56 employees now work at the new headquarters in Wels and at the headquarters.
Source: Nachrichten
