Deloitte launches its annual Technology Fast 50 competition in Central Europe

Contact: Tamara Vlastelica Bakic
Deloitte in Macedonia
Senior Coordinator
+381 11 38 12 100

Celebrating its 9th year in Central Europe, the Deloitte Fast 50 competition selects its winners based on their financial performance in the last five years. The competition’s prestige increases year on year as more companies and countries from the region participate in Fast 50. “While last year’s winners hailed primarily from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and Latvia, this year we expect to see more companies from expanding markets such as Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia and Croatia in the rankings,” says the Regional Managing Partner for Technology, Media and Telecommunications, Dariusz Nachyla.

With revenue increase of 11226 % over the past 5 years, Blue Media, Sp. z o.o., an integrator of innovative information technologies in Poland, finished 1st in last year’s competition. Sebastian Ptak, Managing Director of Blue Media, Sp. z o.o. commented on this win: “In the era of the internet and quick developments in mobile services, the term innovativeness is often abused by companies, which label themselves as innovative. However, companies that appear in Deloitte’s ranking are fully entitled to use this term. This is a major advantage of the ranking. Our achievements have been noticed by our business partners and have strongly contributed to the tightening of our commercial relations. The media buzz surrounding the distinction is also an important factor. Our victory received wide spread media coverage in the press, TV and internet as well as substantially strengthened Blue Media’s image as the leader of the new technologies sector in our part of Europe.”

Online registration and eligibility criteria can be found on the regional Fast 50 website, www.deloitte.com/fast50ce. This year’s competition will open on 5 May 2008 and will close on 30 June 2008. As in previous years, winners of the regional competition will automatically be nominated in the Europe-wide competition known as “Technology Fast 500 EMEA”.

“Every year we work on reaching a larger audience of technology savvy companies. In order to salute the efforts of even more of these innovative teams so that they may increase their awareness in the market, we welcome as many companies as possible into the competition. We wish the best of luck to all participants in this year’s competition and we look forward to seeing the winners at ceremonies that will take place in October,” says Nachyla.

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Deloitte Central Europe is a regional organization of entities organised under the umbrella of Deloitte Central Europe Holdings Limited, the member firm in Central Europe of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. Services are provided by the subsidiaries and affiliates of Deloitte Central Europe Holdings Limited, which are separate and independent legal entities. The subsidiaries and affiliates of Deloitte Central Europe Holdings Limited are among the region’s leading professional services firms, providing services through more than 3,500 people in more than 30 offices in 17 countries.

In Macedonia, the services are provided by DT Deloitte & Touche, DOOEL, Skopje (jointly referred to as “Deloitte Macedonia”) which are affiliates of Deloitte Central Europe Holdings Limited. Deloitte Macedonia is one of the leading professional services organizations in the country providing services in audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services through over 10 national and expatriate professionals.