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1. Prize for Zell Metall

at the ALC Award

26 November 2019

This years  ALC (Austria's Leading Companies -Salzburg) award took place in the „Alte Residenz“ in
Salzburg on 18th November 2019. Zell Metall achieved this year the magnificent 1st place in the
Business International category in the state ranking (Salzburg).

 

Once again 2019, PwC Austria together with Die Presse and KSV1870, is looking for themost
successful companies in the country.

 

Austria's Leading Companies: a competition of numbers, dates and facts

 

Austria's Leading Companies, the performance of the company counts:
Balance sheet figures, sales and earnings growth of the past three financial years and aweighted
ratio system provide an objective result. The final classification in the respective category is made
by the ALC experts.

 

It is the most important business award of the country: At the "Festival of Economy" top companies
received the coveted ALC Prize in the „Alte Residenz in Salzburg. For 21 years now, "Die Presse" has
been investigating together with their partners PwC Austria and KSV1870 the best companies in the
competition "Austria's Leading Companies. The winning companies will be chosen in each federal
state – four for weeks, the award series "ALC" will tour through Austria in order to attract the business
elite nationwide on the stage. At the gala event "ALC Austria" on 30 January 2020 in Vienna, all Salzburg
regional winners once again have the chance of an overall victory in their category.

 

Top companies of the Salzburg economy in the spotlight:

 

The speech of Hans Georg Hagleitner, Managing Director of Hagleitner Hygiene International GmbH,
paid tribute to the successes and best-practice examples of the Salzburg economy, which make a major
contribution to the local economy. Dr. Brigitta Pallauf, President of the State Parliament, emphasized the
importance of the ALC competition:

"It is both a pleasure and an honour for me to present the award to the companies to be honored for their
extraordinary achievements. and also to the media partner 'Die Presse' and the organisers PwC Austria and
KSV1870 for the of 'Austria's Leading Companies'. It is important to pull innovative, dynamic companies on
the stage of such awards and is also a spur on future success." Well-known representatives from business
and politics handed over the coveted ALC „wingshaped“ trophy to this year's winners Zell Metall Gmbh. After
the glamorous winners and guests rounded off the evening with a cosy get-together.

 

Clear evaluation criteria for clear winners!

 

The ALC prize is not awarded by a jury, but is based on the actual effort made, the companies, managers and
employees contribute. The top companies are selected on the basis of their economic performance of the past
three years by using the most recent three annual balance sheets. A specially developed and well-proven
valuation system developed by PwC Austria and KSV1870 includes objective and comprehensible criteria
such as creditworthiness and liquidity. The unique calculation system provides the weighting of the individual
key performance indicators to ensure that, on the one hand, cross-industry benchmarking and a fair comparison
of larger companies with SMEs.