Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) announces that the process of shortlisting 50 companies that will enter the last stage of Made in Romania project has ended. 25 companies were selected through the votes casted by the Nomination Committee Members while the additional 25 were chosen by the Bucharest Stock Exchange representatives.
“The competition was fierce and the selection of 50 out of 166 companies was difficult. We are proud to have seen that many great Romanian companies applied to this Bucharest Stock Exchange’s project. It is the best sign for us that BVB and the Romanian capital markets are a brand that is worthy to be associated with”, stated Lucian Anghel, BVB President.
“I am convinced that with the League of Entrepreneurs we are writing the history of the capital market in Romania” said Ludwik Sobolewski, BVB CEO.
Made in Romania now enters the third and last stage of the selection for the project when the Jury consisting of 12 Romanian and international market experts will select 14 companies that have the biggest growth potential, most enthralling business strategies and achievements so far. The 15th company will be selected through a public vote which begun on March 7th and will last until March 19th. The votes can be casted at www.bvbleague.ro.
The 50 selected companies are:
- 2Performant Network SA
- Agricover
- Amber Studio
- Autonom rent-a-car
- Bilka Steel
- Bittnet Systems SA
- BlueAir – Airline Management Solutions SRL
- Calirom
- Ciserom
- Cris-Tim
- Cumpana 1993 SRL
- Direct One
- Electrogrup
- ELMAS SRL
- Elsaco Electronic
- Equatorial Gaming SRL
- Evolution Prest Systems SRL (evoMAG)
- Eximprod Grup
- Free WiFi
- Good People SA
- Grupul Artmark
- Hexol
- Intermedicas Worldwide SRL
- IRUM SA
- Ivatherm
- Klaus SRL
- Lasting Systems
- MBTelecom Ltd SRL
- Multinvest SRL
- NetBrinel
- Prutul
- RAAL
- Reea SRL
- RockStar Construct SRL – Piatra Online
- Ropharma
- Safetech Innovations
- Salad Box
- Scala Assistance
- Simartis Telekom
- Smartbill
- Softelligence SRL
- Symme3D
- Symmetrica
- Synchro SRL
- Temad
- Thinslices
- Transavia
- Tremend
- Vola.ro
- Zitec
The final 15 companies selected by the Jury will be announced on April 3rd during a dedicated Made in Romania gala. The companies will then participate in a special mentorship program which will run between April and November 2017. Every month between April and November 2017 will have a different theme, such as marketing and branding, strategy and innovation, audit or financing for growth. Based on the theme of the particular month, a number of top-quality workshops, trainings and 1-to-1 meetings will be organized for the companies’ dedicated teams/employees. Through such organization, within the 8 months BVB together with the partners will have a chance at inciting innovation and best practices at the selected companies and thus supporting their growth. The project is offered to the companies free of charge and is voluntary.
The project is conducted together with Banca Transilvania Group, Google, Horvath & Partners, Mazars and NN. Entrepreneurship Academy, Inoveo, Romanian Business Leaders foundation and portal start-up.ro are the official supporters.
Article originally published here.