Best of European Business

<h>For the third time </h> Roland Berger Strategy Consultants will honor outstanding European companies for their achievements as part of its 'Best of European Business' (BEB) Competition.'

The competition will be held in eight of the European Union's strongest economies – Germany, France, Poland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Denmark and the UK. Companies are selected for the awards based on publicly available data analyzed by Roland Berger experts. A shortlist of candidates for the awards is presented to a high-level jury in each of the participating countries, which determines the winners of the national prizes. This year's award categories are "Profitable Growth" and "Outstanding value generation through Cross-border Mergers & Acquisitions." In addition, each country will present an award winner in a separate category of its choosing, i.e. "Best performance in transatlantic business relations" in the German competition. Both a large and a medium-sized company will be chosen as winners in each category.

The winners of the national competitions will be eligible for the pan-European BEB prize to be presented in the context of the annual European Business Summit in Brussels. This high-level event on February 21, 2008 brings together more than 3,000 business and political leaders for a two-day conference on the future of Europe's economic development. Roland Berger Strategy Consultants serves at the strategic partner of the European Business Summit. Entitled "Greening the Economy – New energy for business," this year's EBS conference will focus on the interplay between business and the environment.