Deloitte honors four companies with the Best Managed Companies Award

The Best Managed Companies Award is presented annually by Deloitte with the support of the Swiss stock exchange operator SIX and Bank Julius Baer in collaboration with an independent jury.

The "Best Managed Companies Award" competition is organized by Deloitte Private in 48 countries. Companies are compared with Deloitte's globally recognized benchmark in a comprehensive assessment. This has been continuously developed over the 30 years since the program was launched. Participating companies receive an independent and substantive assessment of their governance methods and overall performance. This assessment shows them where their company currently stands in four core business areas compared to a global community of over 1,400 exemplary companies.

Four central pillars for the evaluation process

The award is preceded by an intensive, multi-stage coaching and assessment process that all participating companies must undergo. The focus is on assessing performance in the four core areas of Strategy, Productivity & Innovation, Culture & Commitment and Governance & Finance. Companies that perform above average in all four categories have a chance of winning the award.

"The last twelve months have continued to be challenging for companies. Geopolitical instability, labor shortages and persistent inflation in many countries posed extremely challenging business risks to which companies had to respond and subsequently realign themselves. The four award-winning companies mastered these and other challenges superbly. They responded effectively to change, demonstrated agility and resilience in difficult times and positioned themselves stably in a volatile market," says Andreas Bodenmann, Program Manager and Head of Deloitte Private.

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Four privately or family-owned companies were recognized as "Best Managed Companies":

• dss+ Consulting is a leader in consulting services in the field of operations management. The company is committed to a sustainable future for customers, employees and society. The company supports organizations in improving the way they manufacture their products and deliver their services, making them safer, more efficient and more sustainable.

• The Ospelt Group has decades of experience in the development, production and marketing of national and international private labels in the food and pet food sectors. The Group is also successful in the Swiss market with the Malbuner and Le Parfait brands. The family-owned company produces in seven plants at five locations. It has its headquarters in Bendern, Liechtenstein.

• Revizto offers innovative software solutions for the architecture, engineering, construction and operations industries, providing a user-friendly platform for seamless collaboration on 3D and 2D projects. With quick access to project information, decision-making is streamlined, resulting in less rework.

• The Sowind Group SA is a merger of the two luxury watch brands Ulysse Nardin and Girard Perregaux. The two brands are among the oldest independent high-end watch manufacturers and have contributed to the progress of the watch industry in terms of both technology and design.

Eleven requalifiers and first Gold Standard award

The competition does not end after one year. All companies can regularly undergo the same audit, take part in workshops and qualify for the award again. In 2024, eleven companies that had previously received the Best Managed Companies Award succeeded in doing so:

• Groupe Acrotec SA
• ATP adhesive systems AG
• ECSA Group
• Läderach Switzerland AG
• Precipart SA
• Suhner Group
• Teoxane Laboratories SA
• Variosystems AG
• Vista Group
• Wipf Group
• Capri Sun Group

The Capri Sun Group deserves special mention at this point, as it was able to qualify for the Best Managed Companies Award for the fourth time in a row. The company was therefore awarded the Gold Standard of the program this year. This is the first time in the history of the program in Switzerland that a company has been honoured with this award.

The prizes were awarded at a festive awards gala in The Hall in Zurich, which was attended by numerous representatives from the business world.

Deloitte is committed to Switzerland as a business location

"The companies honored with the Best Managed Companies Award have every right to be proud. They have undergone an intensive evaluation process and impressively demonstrated that they manage their company in an exemplary manner. As a result, they are at the forefront of their industries and have demonstrated an impressive level of creativity and innovative ability while managing to remain true to their core values," emphasizes Andreas Bodenmann. "As a driving force for innovation, privately managed companies are important for Switzerland as a versatile and strong location."

As an audit and advisory firm, Deloitte Private supports such companies with their challenges in the areas of growth, compliance, reporting and auditing. Deloitte Private tailors the versatile services from the entire Deloitte universe to the specific needs of the companies so that they can assert themselves and position themselves successfully for the future.

Jury with leading personalities from business and science

This year's jury consisted of Jens Breu, CEO of the SFS Group, Tanja Vainio, Country President of Schneider Electric Switzerland, Thorsten Hartmann, Branch Manager of Bank Julius Bär & Co. AG in Basel, and Prof. Dr. Thomas Straub, Professor of International Management at the University of Geneva, evaluated the participating companies.

Source: www.deloitte.com