Tarja Halonen, President of the Republic of Finland, has presented the 2007 Internationalisation Awards to Etteplan Oyj, Proventia Emission Control Oy and the Mobile Monday online community. Today’s award ceremony was the 40th in the history of the prize. The ceremony also marked the second time in the history of the Internationalisation Awards that a community has won the award. The objective of the Internationalisation Awards, which are coordinated by Finpro, is to help businesses to operate in an international environment and to boost their ability to develop and adopt new operating models.
“Finpro’s core mission is to inject the Finnish innovation environment with know-how and trends from the global marketplace. Another key goal is to promote the growth and internationalisation of Finnish businesses. The Internationalisation Award is our way to give recognition to enterprises that have already successfully demonstrated their ability to operate on the international market. These enterprises also act as points of reference and set a great example to others,” says Jorma Turunen, Managing Director of Finpro.
The 2007 awards ceremony doubles as a celebration of the 40-year history of the prize. The Export Award of the President of the Republic of Finland, which preceded the Internationalisation Award, was founded in 1967, and the first companies to win the award were the furniture manufacturer Asko Oy, the consultancy business of Ins.tsto Jaakko Pöyry & Co and the knife factory of J. Marttiinin Puukkotehdas.
Customer-orientated service model paves the way to success
Etteplan Oyj is a global specialist in industrial technology and technical consultancy services. Thanks to its streamlined service concept and determined operating model, Etteplan has managed to grow and increase its international prominence within its continuously developing business sector. Etteplan has more than 50 offices in Finland, Sweden, Italy and China.
“Our strategy is to offer services to internationally operating major corporations in their various local branches around the world. Despite our global market, we have succeeded in staying genuinely close to our customers. Our offices use an internal information network, which allows experts from different fields to contribute to projects regardless of their physical location,” explains Matti Hyytiäinen, President and CEO of Etteplan Oyj.
100-percent international environment business
Proventia Emission Control Oy specialises in developing solutions for the purification of emissions from diesel engines and power plants. The company has successfully networked its strong expertise into a clever service concept for its international clientele. Proventia Emission Control Oy is a good example of a customer-orientated technology business in the environmental sector. Almost 100% of the company’s turnover originates from international projects.
“As environmental regulations are becoming increasingly strict and the problems relating to emissions in big cities are escalating, we have begun to see global demand for our progressive solutions. Our main market areas are Europe and Asia, and we have won contracts worth millions of euros from Hong Kong and Korea, for example. In the future, we expect to see growth on the US market in particular,” says President Jari Lotvonen.
Proventia Emission Control is part of the environmental technology company Proventia Group and it specialises in developing solutions for the purification of emissions from machinery and power plants on the OEM market and various kinds of diesel vehicles on the retrofitting market in big cities.
Innovative online community takes over the global marketplace
Mobile Monday efficiently reaches mobile professionals around the world. Monthly Mobile Monday events have been material in building an image of Finland as a worldwide pioneer in mobile technology and therefore promoted the internationalisation of Finnish mobile businesses. Mobile Monday events are recognised as a Finnish operating model worldwide.
“We plan to host just over 700 Mobile Monday events in 2008 in 70 different cities around the world, and we expect to see more than 90,000 participants. These figures make Mobile Monday the world’s leading event organiser in the mobile technology industry,” explains Jari Tammisto, CEO of Mobile Monday.
Mobile Monday is a public online community which aims to bring together developers, decision-makers, researchers and funding agencies from the mobile industry through monthly events, international conventions, the online community and newsletters. The objectives are, amongst other things, to promote innovation within the mobile industry, to encourage networking amongst different organisations and to communicate industry trends, research findings and future projections.
The organisation behind Mobile Monday is a Finnish NPO called Mobile Monday Oy, which coordinates the global community with the help of more than 300 volunteers.
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Contacts:
- Matti Hyytiäinen, President and CEO, Etteplan Oyj,
tel. +358 400 710 968, matti.hyytiainen(a)ette.com
- Jari Lotvonen, President, Proventia Emission Control Oy,
tel. +358 400 684 072, jari.lotvonen(a)proventia.fi
- Jari Tammisto, CEO, Mobile Monday,
tel. +358 400 333 366, jari.tammisto(a)mobilemonday.net
- Jorma Turunen, Managing Director, Finpro,
tel. +358 40 343 3462, jorma.turunen(a)finpro.fi
- Jarmo Karesto, Project Manager, Finpro,
tel. +358 40 343 3301, jarmo.karesto(a)finpro.fi
- Katja Espo, Communication Consultant, Finpro,
tel. +358 40 511 4800, katja.espo(a)finpro.fi
- Mirja Ekholm, Editor, Association for Finnish Work,
tel. +358 (0)9 6962 4346 or +358 50 591 4675, mirja.ekholm(a)avainlippu.fi