Wallenstam initiates collaboration regarding Foreign-born Entrepreneur of the Year award
Wallenstam has initiated collaboration with the Internationella Företagare i Sverige Foundation, IFS, which awards the Foreign-born Entrepreneur of the Year prize annually. Since 1996, IFS has supported entrepreneurs and business owners with a foreign background in starting, running and developing companies. The foundation also strives to secure favorable conditions for enterprise and initiates activities to create networks among business owners with a foreign background and companies and organisations in Sweden.
The Foreign-born Entrepreneur of the Year award – one of Sweden’s most prestigious prizes for business owners with a foreign background has been awarded since 1999 and H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf is the patron of the prize. The contest is conducted at a regional and national level. A nomination committee in five regions and a national committee evaluates business owners with a foreign background according to the criteria entrepreneurial spirit, economic development, strategic focus, impact on the surrounding world, personal influence and innovation.
“It is very gratifying to have Wallenstam as a new partner and their support in order to highlight capable entrepreneurs with a foreign background (Foreign-born entrepreneurs). Through the Foreign-born Entrepreneur of the Year award, we honor role models and show their value for Sweden,” says Rafael Bermejo, Founder & President of the IFS Foundation and H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf’s Foreign-born Entrepreneur of the Year prize.
“We think that it is important that there are good conditions for all types of enterprise in Sweden. The Foreign-born Entrepreneur of the Year award helps to recognise good role models and to support business owners with a foreign background to achieve success and create growth,” says Karin Mizgalski, Sustainability Manager at Wallenstam.
For further information, please contact:
Elisabeth Vansvik, Communications Director, Wallenstam AB (publ) tel. +46 31 20 00 00 or +46 705 17 11 38, elisabeth.vansvik@wallenstam.se
www.wallenstam.se
Rafael Bermejo, Founder & President of the IFS Foundation and H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf’s New Entrepreneur of the Year award.tel. +46 706 39 91 21, rafael@stiftelsenifs.se www.aretsnybyggare.se
Wallenstam is a property company that manages, builds and develops properties for sustainable living and enterprise in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Uppsala. The property holding is valued at around SEK 64 billion and the customer base consists of around 11,000 households and 1,000 enterprises. The total lettable area is around 1 million sq m. Wallenstam is self-sufficient in renewable electrical energy through its own wind turbines in operation. The company’s B shares have been listed on Nasdaq Stockholm since 1984.