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Chemnitz. Over 50 companies from all over Saxony had applied for the 2024 Saxon milestonethe prize for successful company succession. Eight companies from the Chemnitz region have now made it through to the next round of the competition. The Guarantee Bank of Saxony (BBS) has now announced the selected companies as part of the Succession networking event at the Carlowitz Congress Center Chemnitz. They compete in the categories family-internal, company-internal or company-external succession. In the first category Jeweler Alfred Curth from Markneukirchen, the Textile Care Thieme GmbH & Co. KG from Zwickau and the Zill & Engler liqueur and spirits factory from Reichenbach in the Vogtland region. For the company's internal succession, the IMK Engineering GmbH from Chemnitz, the IMM electronics GmbH from Mittweida and the Vogtland-Druck und Computersatz GmbH from Markneukirchen entered the race. In the external succession category, the company Delicatessen Dreißig from Zwickau and the Goldener Stern Erlebnis GmbH nominated from Oederan.
Award at Albrechtsberg Castle
All applications were initially reviewed by a project group from the Dresden University of Applied Sciences (HTW) under the direction of Prof. Dr. Torsten Gonschorek. The focus was on evaluation criteria such as the development of employee and sales figures since the takeover or the future viability of the respective business model. The winners can expect prize money of 5,000 euros per category. An additional special prize from the jury is endowed with 2,000 euros. The milestones will be presented on October 1, 2024 at Albrechtsberg Castle in Dresden in the closed setting and in the presence of Minister of State Martin Dulig, who is also the patron of the award. (WiS)
