Entrepreneur of the Year 2008, 11.12.2008 

Awarding the most successful micro and small enterprises

“The award is an evidence that all invested efforts fro achieving world values were not futile and that our country values true qualities as well” – stated Kristijan Danilovski, one of the managers of the production house FX3X, the winner of the first prize for most successful micro enterprise, in the framework of the event Entrepreneur of the Year 2008, held on December 11th 2008 in Hotel Aleksandar Palas. The winner of the second prize for most successful enterprise was Market Vision, a marketing agency.

The first prize for most successful enterprise was awarded to the textile production enterprise “Doniteks” from Sv. Nikole whereas the second prize in the same category was awarded to the agency for production and marketing brand “Republika”.
The event is held for the second time. The Macedonian Enterprise Development Foundation is one of the co-organizers of the event (together with the Macedonian Chambers of Commerce, Agency for Promotion of Entrepreneurship, Businss Start-Up Center, Project for Strengthening of Entrepreneurship, Competitiveness and Innovativeness, European Business Association and the Chamber of Commerce of Northeast Macedonia). The activities are financially supported by the British Embassy in Skopje, Austrian Agency for Cooperation and the United States Agency for International Development.
The pre-selection for the Entrepreneur of the Year 2008 was made on the basis of the data from the Central Register of Macedonia. 200 micro and small enterprises, in the period from 2005 to 2007, realized growth on basis of number of employees, total income, gains and investments. From these 200 enterprises, selected and invited in the next round of selection were 120 enterprises (60 micro and 60 small enterprises). The next selection was made from total of 20 enterprises which filled out questionnaires and were interviewed. In the final selection was made with special focus on the entrepreneur him/herself, as well as several other criteria: dedication to own training and training for the employees, marketing and growth strategy, investments in research, development and innovations, etc.