Meet the finalists of the VI Company and Sports Awards

Nov

2018

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In the sixth edition of the Enterprise and Sport Awards for Innovation, Partnership, Entrepreneurship and Internationalization, the best projects of companies in the sports sector will be recognized in these four areas.

The Catalan cluster of the sports industry, INDESCAT, will launch the Enterprise and Sports Awards for the sixth consecutive year with the aim of recognizing the four most outstanding sports projects in the fields of innovation, internationalization, partnership and entrepreneurship.

The award ceremony, which will be conducted by the extreme sportsman and communicator Valentí Sanjuan, will take place on Tuesday, November 27, at 6:30 pm, at ESADECREAPOLIS, and will be attended by the president of INDESCAT, Anna Pruna; the Minister of the Presidency of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Elsa Artadi; the mayor of Sant Cugat del Vallès, Carmela Fortuny; and the CEO of ACCIÓ, Joan Romero, among other authorities and representatives of the sports industry.

The winners of the prizes will be made public the same day of the delivery among the three finalists that the jury has selected in each category.

Thus, the finalists of the Business and Sports Award for INNOVATION, where we find projects or products that stand out for the novelty they bring and the acceptance they are having to their market, are:

Efficpool, from the Hidrotuït company, is a monitored regenerative filtration system for the treatment of pool water.
Original Multifunctional Headwear, from the company Buff, is a tubular made from recycled transparent plastic bottles.
Sports & Landscape, from the company that bears the same name, is a technology for the recycling and reappropriation of artificial turf football field materials.

As for the finalists of the Enterprise and Sports Award for ENTREPRENEURSHIP, in which start-ups (created after July 2015) with the most potential during the year 2018 are recognized, they are:

Patadon, multi-brand footwear distribution and management system for stores in sports clubs.
Spinntech, technologies for the digitalization of tennis courts that allow the monitoring of the game of the users, a very relevant advance for the improvement of their performance.
Suiff, the first training system that measures strength training, in dynamic and static exercises, and goes a step further by not only showing metrics of the activity carried out, but also proposing tutoring plans adapted to the needs of each user .

On the other hand, the finalists of the Enterprise and Sports award, the INTERNATIONALIZATION, where the candidature with the most international growth will be awarded, are:

MATGroup, company with clients and suppliers all over the world. Only 3% of the fans are to the Spanish market.
Poliwin, which offers a wide range of services, products and solutions for the management of facilities. It started its international expansion in 2015 and today it has activity in 8 countries.
TP Sport. His activity has always been the manufacture and installation of sports equipment and equipment and has made projects of telescopic bleachers to 20 different countries.

Finally, the finalists of the Enterprise and Sports Award for Partnership 2018, for which COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS are valued that take advantage of the members' know-how, are:

Futsal, Sports Program (futsal) is aimed at people with mental health problems and their environment. Collaboration of the Mental Health Center of the Terrassa Health Consortium and the Egara Social Club.
Smartfootball, a collaborative project of three companies for the promotion of Salou as a destination for sports tourism. The Sports Complex Salou Soccer facilitates the facilities, Tecnifutbol the sports academy and Mare Nostrum Cup the organization of the event.
The Owners of Dreams project is a collaboration between Probike and Superacció. It is an initiative of social integration of groups at risk of exclusion through sport.

EVALUATION COMMITTEE (JURY)

The Evaluation Committee of the Enterprise and Sports Awards, which met on November 9, is composed of representatives of INDESCAT, the Department of Business and Knowledge (ACCIÓ), the Barcelona School of Management of the Pompeu Fabra University (BSM-UPF) ), the Blanquerna Foundation of the Ramon Llull University (URL), the Cruyff Institute, and the Union of Sports Federations of Catalonia (UFEC).
For the Enterprise and Sports Entrepreneurship Award, the evaluation committee has been formed by the promoters and collaborators of the INDESUP! Sports entrepreneurship support program: INDESCAT, ICEB, LANSPORTLAW and ACCIÓ.

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