Berlinger & Co. AG wins Export Award 2020
The Toggenburg-based company Berlinger & Co. AG from Toggenburg has received the Export Award 2020 from Switzerland Global Enterprise (S-GE). The family business, which successfully sells high-tech solutions in the healthcare and anti-doping sectors worldwide, impressed the jury with its impressive internationalization strategy.
A total of three finalists were nominated for the Export Award 2020: Berlinger & Co. AG from Ganterschwil, Sensirion AG from Stäfa and Storz Medical AG from Tägerwilen.
The winner was chosen by the independent Jury of representatives from business, science and the media, Berlinger & Co. AG from Toggenburg. The company convinces with its internationalization strategy, which is based on careful market analyses, the cultivation of worldwide partnerships and a clever growth strategy.
Prize presentation by Ruth Metzler-Arnold
The Export Award 2020 trophy has been presented by Ruth Metzler-Arnold, Chairman of the Board of Directors of S-GE. "International business has been becoming more uncertain and volatile for years," said Ruth Metzler-Arnold. "Berlinger & Co. AG has managed to prove itself in this difficult environment and become the world market leader with a remarkable internationalization strategy and excellent risk management."
Innovation meets tradition
The high-tech products of Berlinger & Co. AG are used for the temperature monitoring of pharmaceutical and medical products as well as for the safe transport and storage of doping samples in elite sports. Thanks to personal contacts with international pharmaceutical companies and humanitarian organizations as well as sports federations and organizers of major sporting events, the hardware and software solutions from Toggenburg are in demand in over 180 countries. "Feel safe" is the slogan of the 155-year-old family-owned company, which trumps with continuity and innovation and plays an important role worldwide in terms of patient safety and in its commitment to clean sport.
About the Export Award
Every year, Switzerland Global Enterprise presents the Export Award to a company that has successfully gained a foothold abroad. The candidates and winners of the last few years show in exemplary fashion how successfully Swiss SMEs assert themselves on the international stage against numerous odds through innovative strength, agility and cleverness. Hidden champions with great internationalization potential are discovered time and again among the applicants. More
