Botnia was awarded with Recognized for Excellence

Botnia participated in the quality competition for large companies and business
units held by Excellence Finland (Suomen Laatukeskus). Botnia was honoured with
the "EFQM Recognised for Excellence" recognition for its good operations and
results. 

Botnia has been systematically developing its operations leaning on quality
management with long-span perspective. Participation in quality competition is
a natural continuation of the development work. 

Using targets to manage strategy implementation was found one of Botnia's
strengths. At Botnia the strategy is converted into targets by annual planning.
Targets and gauges are defined even in personal level and different
organizational levels participate in devising plans. Needs and expectations of
Botnia's interest groups steer operations planning. 

The evaluation of participating organizations is based on EFQM model (European
Foundation for Quality Management) widely used in Europe. The evaluation tool
covers all business operations and both qualitative and quantitative results of
them. Recognised for Excellence award is athe companies which obtain more than
400 points. 

The aim of the competition is to bring out the quality of operations of
participating organisations and the aspects that require improvements.
Evaluation gives genuine and objective information on positive facts about the
organisation as well as the issues to be further developed. In the quality
competition evaluation is made by a trained group of experts who are well
versed in a participant's field of operations.