Organized by the Instituto Aragonés de Fomento (IAF) and Cepyme-Ceos, who were joined for the first time by the Chamber of Commerce, the sixth edition of Huesca Enterprise Award was assigned to Becton Dickinson.
The plant manager of Fraga, Javier Pardiño highlighted two "essential" aspects to the company: "extraordinary" human team "engine of everything that happens" and a management team "expert in what will be important tomorrow and getting prepare to it. "
The managing director of Cabrero e Hijos, Santiago Cabrero, was awarded the Entreprise Path. In his speech he sais that the "e" of Entreprise Award means "esperanza" (hope) and "empeño" (commitment) to "follow the path" that their family ancestors scored for the company.
Carlos Escanero, manager of Plásticos Escanero-recognized in the Innovation category with plants in Huesca and Sariñena-said that "it is not difficult to make decisions when you have values, inherited from parents, such as integrity, doing what is said and say what you think".
Palas BMH, of Poleñino, won the prize to Internationalisation, presented for the first time after the entry of the Chamber of Commerce in organizing the award ceremony.
Michel Aspas, chief business of the company, said that after the crisis "politicians have seen the importance of Industry" and has requested assistance for the sector instead of "waste" measures as projects E or 2000E or 426 euros for the unemployed, "a way to buy votes".
Recognition to SMEs was awarded to the Aragon Centro de Formacion. The manager, Fernando Viñuales, said the crucial nature of the training, "a differentiating factor" and claimed its quality, both for "professional development" of the worker as to give "added value" to the company.
The Hotel Restaurant Revestido of Escalona won the award for Young Entrepreneur. Ramiro Revestido, manager of the facility, said that this was a recognition to "family effort" and to a "constant work generation after generation". In addition he took the opportunity to claim the Bielsa tunnel.
The list of awards was completed with special reference to the Social Work of the Fundacion Bolskan, whose director general, Antonio Miranda, said the only difference with a company is "the ultimate purpose of profit ", which in this case is intended to "reinvest in the whole society. "
Finally, the Councillor for Industry, Arturo Aliaga, defended the work of politicians in general and more specifically of his department. He recalled that the Enterprise Program was created before the crisis and stressed that the recession began with "irresponsibility"of certain companies and directors whose "vision" was reduced "to results ". He would not insist more on the subject, preferring to close the Award Ceremony.