Eight entrepreneurs received golden jacks at the Business Success Award in Omsk

Today, the regional stage of the national award for entrepreneurs "Business Success" was held, 23 local entrepreneurs qualified for the finals.

Business Success is an all-Russian project to support small and medium-sized businesses, which includes regional stages of the award, programs to grow businesses and increase investment attractiveness, etc. The purpose of the Business Success Award is to find and show examples of successful development of small and medium-sized businesses in the regions of Russia, as well as to replicate these effective practices to improve the business climate in the regions of Russia. The project has been running since 2011.

The event was opened by Anna Negoduiko, Minister of Economy of the Omsk Region, Azat Gazizov, First Vice President of OPORA Russia, Yulia Veprintseva, Vice President of Synergy University, and Sergey Sobolev, Executive Director of the National Business Success Award.

"On behalf of the Government of the Omsk region, I welcome the participants of the regional stage of the National Entrepreneurial Award "Business Success". Such business events have already become traditional for the Omsk region, despite the pandemic. There is a good opportunity to build a dialogue on such platforms. Today, dialogue is very important and necessary for both entrepreneurs and us, government representatives, in order to promptly respond to problems and challenges faced by businesses and offer various support measures," said the Minister of Economy of the region.Anna Negoduiko.

According to Azat Gazizov, First vice-president of OPORA Russia, 10 years ago, when it was decided to hold the Business Success award, the image of an entrepreneur was completely different, "semi-criminal," because other creative, active entrepreneurs simply were not shown on television and in the media.

"An entrepreneur is basically not an economic unit, it is a social unit. Where there is entrepreneurship, life is born there and the territory develops. Entrepreneurs who have participated in the Business Success Award are starting to earn their social capital, they get new acquaintances, investors learn about them, banks are interested in them, they enter the federal level and become famous," Azat Gazizov believes.

The finalists of the Business Success Award presented their business projects to the expert jury. The winners were determined in seven nominations and an additional one was established – a special prize from the jury.

In the nomination "The best youth project. The nomination is named after him. Sergey Vykhodtsev" wonTatiana Eliseeva, Director of the Rassvet Center for Creativity and Early Childhood Development, "Best Production Project" - Natalia Sheikina, Director of Plastic auto, in the Digital Economy nomination - resident of Omsk IT Park, head of the Siberian Developer StudioVadim Mazur. A farmer, the owner of a peasant farm from the village of Kamchatka in the Krutinsky district, was recognized as the "Best agricultural project".Elena Ilyina. A resident of the region emotionally noted that her case is an example of the fact that "you can live in a village, live well and develop a business."

The owner of the Omsk chain of tea and coffee shops VINTAGE won in the nomination "The best project in the field of trade and services".Elena Kalchenko. The experts recognized the fashion designer and the ambassador of the My Business center as the "Best women's project" Tatiana Falchenko. According to the results of SMS voting on the award's website, she became the "People's Entrepreneur".Elena Kalchenko, she presented the Pink Cube Montessori Center. The special prize from the organizing committee of the Business Success Award was awarded to the head of the KALINA Children's sports club Igor Rybalko. Igor admitted that he did not expect to win, and his club opened in November. The entrepreneur promised not to disappoint the visitors and to develop.

The winners received the award symbol – a statuette in the form of a "golden jack", a license for services from Seldon, a certificate for annual access to the educational online platform Synergy.Online, a gift set from the Business Success award, business literature from Alpina Publisher. People's Entrepreneur Yelena Nedbayeva received a free Mini MBA degree at the Synergy University as a prize. Natalia Sheikina, Elena Ilyina and Tatiana Eliseeva received certificates for participation in the Business Success acceleration program. Vadim Mazur was awarded a prize from the Otkritie Bank.

On December 1, educational events were held for everyone - master classes, a round table and a plenary session, which, as well as the final of the award, could be watched online on the website of the Business Success Award.

The organizers of the event are OPORA RUSSIA, ASI, the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation, the Synergy Corporation and the My Business Center in Omsk (the Omsk Region Entrepreneurship Support Fund). The award was held under the national project to support small and medium-sized businesses.