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Swedbank special award
WEBMEDIa
Best Adjuster
2009
Artjom Sokolov:
„The activity of Webmedia
is a good sample of innovation
and thinking without limits
which is really needed by
the small Estonian economy.”
In the frames of the Estonian Companies’
Competitiveness Ranking this
year also the special award of Swedbank
will be given. Today Swedbank
wished to bring the company to the
fore which has well adjusted in the
changed environment and found the
possibilities for increasing one’s business
regardless of the complicated
times.
Artjom Sokolov, the managing director
of the corporate banking of Swedbank
brought the company’s innova -
tive ness in its activity and purposefulness
in searching the new markets to
the fore. For example, the software
solutions created by Webmedia for the
state institutions and large-scale
companies have been taken to the
Arab countries, Egypt and Moldova.
“The wide-scale export of services
based on knowledge is one of the
bases of the development of the Estonian
economy. The activity of Webmedia
is a good sample of innovation
and thinking without limits which is
really needed by the small Estonian
economy,“ Sokolov says. According to
him it is acknowledgeable that in the
phase of shrinking economy new jobs
have been established in the company
and much attention should be also
drawn to the employees in addition to
economic success – Webmedia is one
of the most family-friendly companies
in Estonia. The manager of Webmedia
Taavi Kotka tells that when observing
the events around it seems void to
speak about the results of 2008 in autumn
2009. Webmedia is a happy company
according to him, as each next
year has been better than the previous
one. The following discussion with
the company’s manager Taavi Kotka is
full of slightly different approach to
entrepreneurship, such approach
which considers also the factors with
which the companies maybe consider
only in words. Webmedia has in every
sense taken many steps.
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