TOP ESTONIAN ENTERPRISES

Photo: Rauno Volmar
Nominees for the Developer
of the Year 2009
This category pays recognition to the
lately started and well-developed
companies which are sustainable with
fast growth and deal actively with
product development. The third year
of operations is often the critical period
in the company’s development
and the operations of more than three
years have mostly longer term success.
Therefore the state and business
organisations require to present the
companies which have appeared to be
fast –growing and developing within
the first three years of operations and
which can be considered sustainable.
The specification of the winner helps
to bring the new small company having
entered the market most successfully
to the fore.
GSM VALVE OÜ
GSM Valve OÜ provides wireless home and car
alarm systems which notify the client and the
persons appointed by it of the emergency situations
by mobile communication. The GPSbased
logistics services are provided as the
second business branch.
In case of emergency the security system calls
to the contact numbers set by the client to
arouse interest and the SMS arriving to the mobile
phone includes the exact information from
which sensor the signal came from. Thus the
client knows exactly what kind of room and
emergency (movement, smoke or other sensor)
is dealt with in his house and also knows how to
respond.
The company operates since 2005, having indicated
considerable growth each year. The competitive
advantage of GSM Valve OÜ is the good
product, right timing and intensive sales policy
which has made the company well-known with
short time and it is taken as the experienced
partner at the market. GSM Valve OÜ provides
services all over Estonia, also it has subsidiaries
in Latvia and Lithuania where the
leader position will be achieved with a couple of
years. In Estonia and Latvia GSM Valve has over
4500 private clients and over 300 business companies
using GPS-logistics service. GSM Valve
OÜ used the grants offered by Enterprise Estonia
in its development – consultation grant,
start-up company grant, export marketing
grant and the development personnel secondment
grant.
KUUSK OÜ
Kuusk OÜ was established in 2005 as the company
providing the event marketing services.
Aivar Kuusk, the founder, manager and visionary
of the company, had operated in the sector
already for more than 10 years by that time.
Kuusk OÜ has developed stable, having preserved
the loyal clients and by establishing the
dignified moments for the prosperity of their
business. The secret of the company’s success
could be the good knowledge and perceiving of
one’s clients, also devotion and conviction that
just that work should be done that you love.
The sales of Kuusk OÜ reached 12.7 million
kroons in 2008 and gained the profit of approximately
0.5 million kroons. The company provided
work for three employees. •
Nominees for the Developer of the Year 2009
Enterprise Main activity Estbalished Sales 2008 Sales 2007 Change in Net profit 2008 Net profit 2007 Cange in Employees
(th EEK) (th EEK) sales (%) (th EEK) (th EEK) net profit (%)
FLOW SERVICE OÜ Design and installation of the food industry equipment 2005 18,844.8 16,151.9 14.3 1,112.9 638.7 42.6 19
GSM VALVE OÜ Operating of security systems 2005 22,970.1 13,361.7 41.8 1,731.0 1,050.8 39.3 20
KUUSK OÜ Marketing agency 2005 12,767.1 11,318.0 11.4 467.7 332.8 28.8 3
www.konkurents.ee
1 EUR = 15.6466 EEK; 1 EEK = 0.0639 EUR; based on 2008 data
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