The 2nd annual CEE Capital Markets Awards attracts nearly 150 people to celebrate the publicly-listed companies who are leading the dynamic and fast-paced changes in the CEE region’s capital markets sector. Nominations were received from Poland, Romania, Ukraine, Hungary, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Estonia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, and Slovenia.
In addition to the final Short-List of 79 leading companies who competed for the top-prize in 17 categories, 7 CEE region Stock Exchanges attended, including Warsaw Stock Exchange, Bucharest Stock Exchange, Budapest Stock Exchange, Prague/CEE Stock Exchange, Croatia/Slovenia Stock Exchanges, Bulgaria Stock Exhange and NASDAQ Baltics.
International guests attending were from Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Croatia, Lithuania, England, Switzerland, Finland, and USA. StockWatch.pl was supporting the event as media partner.
– We have 3 main goals in organizing this Awards. First, we want to encourage more global investor attention on the CEE region – stretching from the Baltics to the Black Sea – with its more-dynamic economies than western Europe – to attract more global investors to the region’s great companies. Secondly, we want to highlight top entrepreneurs and managers creating and building great companies. The third goal is to shine a light on top institutional investors. Especially those doing the extra work to discover rising stars in the region. Some of tonite’s Winners are companies that are disrupting traditional businesses with new business models, like Oponeo.pl. Others are tapping into the IT and creative potential here in the CEE region to create global products – likes games makers Vivid Games and 11BitStudios. Others are more mature, well-managed and strong cashflow companies like Asecco and Cyfrowy Polsat. Yet others are great turnaround (Cemacon in Romania) or expansion stories (Uniwheels)– and are tapping the CEE Capital Markets to fund their ambitions – said Thom Barnhardt, organizer of this 2nd annual CEE Capital Markets Awards.
The 20 CEE Capital Markets Awards winners are:
Bond markets: Top Bond listing deal of Year: Alior Bank
Best IR dept of a listed company – CEE (ex-Poland): Podravka (Croatia)
Best IR dept of a listed company – Poland: Cyfrowy Polsat
Turnaround of the Year: CEMACON (Romania)
Best overall company of the Year: Asseco Poland
Listing of Year – Lightly-Regulated Exchanges: Bittnet Systems (Romania)
Performer of Year – Lightly-Regulated Exchanges: Vivid Games
Best Transition-to-Main Market – Lightly-Regulated Exchanges: 11 Bit Studios
Top IR company of year: CC Group
Top Law Firm: Allen & Overy
Top Broker/Investment Bank for CEE: Pekao Investment Banking
Top Fund of the Year – Domestic: Trigon
Top foreign institutional/ pension investor in CEE: SEB Eastern Europe Small Cap Fund
Top Performing (Percentage return): Oponeo.pl
Top Foreign-Company Listing on a CEE stock exchange: Uniwheels
Top Secondary Listing: Alior Bank
Top IPO: Uniwheels
CEE Fastest-Growing Companies from Poland: CD PROJEKT SA
M&A of the Year: CCC SA
Personality of the Year: Ilona Weiss
Submissions for the 2017 edition – which will take place 14 September, 2017 – will be open in spring 2017. For more information, visit: www.ceeCapitalMarketsAwards.com.
