On November 29, 2012, during a gala in Warsaw, the winner of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year competition was announced: Ewald Raben, CEO of Raben Group. This year’s edition had a special, jubilee character, as it was held for the tenth time in Poland.
The independent jury of Ernst & Young made the decision to select the best entrepreneur based on criteria such as: entrepreneurship, strategy, international operations, innovation, and relations with employees and the environment.
– I am extremely proud and very happy to receive the Entrepreneur of the Year award – says Ewald Raben. – It means that our company, management, and employees are developing in the right direction and are putting our values and strategy into practice. The competition promotes attitudes that are natural in my business environment. Entrepreneurship is a corporate value of the Raben Group; we want the people employed here to feel like entrepreneurs in their workplaces. Without innovation, modern business, and therefore logistics, cannot exist. Conducting business in a responsible manner, with care for the broadly understood environment, is of key importance to us. In our daily work, experience from the ten countries in which we operate is helpful.
“For entrepreneurship, vision, and passion, and for effective management. For building a logistics network serving almost the entire Europe, where the overriding values are passion, customer orientation, professionalism, and credibility” – this is how the competition jury, represented by the Chairman of the Committee, Prime Minister Jan Krzysztof Bielecki, explained its decision to award the title of Entrepreneur of the Year 2012 to Ewald Raben.
Representing Poland in the international final of the Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur of the Year competition in Monte Carlo in June 2013, Ewald Raben will face competitors from over 50 countries. The winners of all local editions compete in the global contest for the title of the best entrepreneur.