Dr. Oliver Grün, Founder, board member and CEO of GRÜN Software AG, and COO Dirk Hönscheid with the statue of the winner of the “Grand Prize for SMEs”. Source: Oskar Patzelt Foundation
The GRÜN Software AG was awarded the “Grand Prize for Medium-Sized Enterprises” in 2018. The award is one of the most important and renowned business awards in Germany.
Aachen, October 02.10.2018nd, XNUMX. The GRÜN Software AG was awarded at a festive gala that took place on September 29, 2018 in the Maritim Hotel in Düsseldorf with the “Grand prize of the middle class" excellent. After the Aachen-based software company already acted as Finalist has been awarded, made it to the top this year.
The Oskar Patzelt Foundation annually awards the “Grand Prize for Medium-Sized Enterprises” to medium-sized companies. In addition to individual business criteria, the competition also evaluates the companies as a whole and in their role in society. This year, 4.917 companies from all over Germany were nominated for the award, 423 of them from North Rhine-Westphalia, of which the GRÜN Software AG was one of only four winners and was able to convince the jury particularly in all categories.
The GRÜN Group around the GRÜN Software AG has doubled its sales in the last four years, increased the equity ratio to 30% and increased the number of employees by a third to around 150 employees. A positive result has been generated for many years, which is retained to increase equity and used for internal financing of expansion, modernization, research and employee development. Our own talent program, engagement awards as GRÜNER, sports groups and regular employee events promote employee motivation. Companies, entrepreneurs and employees are involved in a variety of ways as donors for regional projects or school buildings in Africa as well as in voluntary activities to promote digitization in Germany. The foundation counts the company among the "socially committed growth elite of German medium-sized companies".
“For me as a medium-sized entrepreneur, responsibility, risk and liability are linked. This creates a commitment that managers and corporations are not familiar with. The renowned medium-sized company award focuses on this important unique selling point of medium-sized companies. I am happy to accept the award on behalf of our great employees, ”he says happily Dr. Oliver Grün, Founder, board member and CEO of GRÜN Software AG. Grün attended the award ceremony together with Dirk Hönscheid, authorized signatory and COO of the company. "The award confirms our positive corporate development and is an incentive for us to actively shape the future and to continue driving new developments and changes in this sense," adds Hönscheid.
The award given by the Leipzig Oskar Patzelt Foundation is one of Germany's most important business awards. In a ranking carried out by the management consultancy isw Halle in 2011, the “Grand Prize for Medium-Sized Enterprises” came in first among 1 German business competitions, and according to “Die Welt” it is the most sought-after and most important business award. The competition has recorded a steady increase in nominations to this day.
Brief information about the GRÜN Software AG:
The GRÜN Gruppe is the leading provider of industry software for organizations. In the area of member and donation software, more than 1 billion euros are generated annually by GRÜN-Solutions handled so that more than every 5th euro donated in Germany. The market leader's customers include institutions such as Wikimedia Germany, Johanniter-Unfallhilfe, Rotary Germany, the Taxpayers' Association, Welthungerhilfe and Misereor.