- The GPW-listed company Selvita S.A. wins the European Small and Mid-Cap Awards 2015 as the Rising Star
- The Awards are organised by the Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE) and European Issuers in partnership with the European Commission
The company Selvita S.A., listed on the GPW Main Market since December 2014, has won the main award in the Rising Star category. The short-listing of Selvita in the finals of the Awards was already a major honour. The award winners in the four categories are twelve leading companies listed on European exchanges. They include three Polish companies, the biggest number from a single country.
Established in Kraków in 2007, Selvita S.A. is the biggest innovative biotechnology company in Central and Eastern Europe. It has two business segments: innovations and services. In the innovations segment, Selvita researches new original medicines, mainly oncology drugs. Selvita also partners with renowned innovative pharmaceutical companies in Western Europe and the USA. In the services segment, Selvita works among others with seven of the top ten global pharmaceutical corporations as a provider of comprehensive chemical, biotechnology and bioinformatics solutions which reduce the marketing cost of innovative products.
“I congratulate Selvita on this honour. I am glad that companies listed on GPW win prestigious international awards. Other Polish companies have previously won the European Small and Mid-Cap Awards, which attests to the strong international perception of the high quality of Polish issuers and proves that GPW is the leading exchange for Polish and international mid-cap companies. Many other strong companies also have the potential to go public and make a success,” said Grzegorz Zawada, Vice President of the Management Board of the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
The European Small and Mid-Cap Awards were opened only to those companies whose IPOs (initial public offerings) took place in 2013-2014, and which have strong fundamentals and report a long-term increase of the share price. The capitalisation of companies entered for the Awards was capped at EUR 1 billion at the IPO date.
The winners were selected by an independent jury appointed by the European Commission and composed of representatives of universities, capital markets, businesses, asset managers and financial media. The European Small and Mid-Cap Awards organised by FESE and European Issuers promote the most dynamic small and medium-sized European listed companied.
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