Ampacet Europe SA from Dudelange, Luxembourg has today been named as a National Champion in The European Business Awards sponsored by RSM International; a prestigious competition supported by business leaders, academics, media and political representatives from across Europe.
The European Business Awards now in its 8th year engaged with over 24,000 businesses from 33 European countries this year and 709 companies from across Europe have been named today as National Champions; going through to the second phase of the competition.
Giuseppe Giusto, Director EMEA: “We are very proud to be selected to represent Luxembourg in the category “Business segment over 150M” as a National Champion. There were 10 different categories overall and 7 companies have been selected within Luxembourg. The European Business Awards is widely recognized as the showcase for Europe’s most dynamic companies and to be nominated one of these is very inspiring for Ampacet. We are now looking forward to the next round of the judging process where we can explain in more depth how we are achieving business success.”
Ampacet Corporation was founded in 1937 and has been present in Europe since 1986. Today, Ampacet is one of the Leading Masterbatch producers with a global presence and a total of 24 manufacturing plants worldwide.
Ampacet is one of the companies that have continued investing in Europe during the difficult economic crisis during 2008-2013, still believing in this market & benefiting from a continuous growth rate in volume due to Ampacet’s highly competitive manufacturing sites with investments made as follows:
- A very high investment in Dudelange, Luxembourg European Headquarters for +/- 35 Million$
- Ampacet was not only adding capacity with the Dudelange plant, but it is reinforcing the European and Global network to maintain and increase our market leadership in Europe, Middle East & Africa
- 6 new lines in Europe (Poland, Italy & UK)
- Strategic investment for our local presence in MEA which Ampacet considered important to expand
- Russian investment where Ampacet has a high market share, reinforcing our local leadership and continually improving on our services to the local markets
Ampacet’s most recent investment is in a new European distribution centre in the heart of Europe near to its new EMEA Headquarters & production plant in Dudelange, Luxembourg and its production plant in Messancy, Belgium.
Ampacet’s investments have been made at a critical time, but Ampacet wants to remain close to its strategic markets and the company wants to support the growth of its customers and satisfy their needs to the best of the company’s ability. Ampacet believes in and is committed to the continued growth and success of this market. Adrian Tripp, CEO of the European Business Awards said: “Congratulations to Ampacet Europe SA, it is a great achievement to be named National Champion and we wish them luck in the next stage. The European Business Awards is going from strength to strength, inspiring businesses to greater success and helping to improve the competitive edge of companies across Europe.”
Jean Stephens, CEO of RSM International, said: “Every year this competition gets tougher and more competitive as more companies, of varied sizes and across all sectors, chose to compete in this prestigious competition. With the increased number of entries and countries, this year looks to become the toughest Awards yet. It will be exciting to watch as we move through to the next round.”
Ampacet has all of its chances to be chosen alongside the top European companies and Ampacet counts on your votes to be selected as one of the finalists in 2015.
