Awards

Quality Leadership

"Our world revolves around our customers."

2010 / 2009
"Premium Distributor", industry journal Telecom Handel

2009
"most preferred" and "most important" reseller, industry journal IT Business News

2007 / 2006 / 2005 / 2002 / 2001 / 1999
"Distributor of the Year", industry journal Funkschau Handel

2008 / 2007 / 2006 / 2005 / 2004 / 2002 / 2001
"Distributor of the Year", industry journal Telecom Handel

2010 / 2009 / 2008 / 2007 / 2006 / 2005 / 2004
"Excellent Distributor", industry journal Computer Reseller News

2008 / 2006 / 2003 / 2001
1st Place "Performance Ranking Distributors", industry journal markt intern

2009 / 2008 / 2007 / 2006 / 2005
1st Place Numeric Distribution Rate, GfK Distributor and Image Study Telecommunication

2009 / 2008 / 2007
Top1 Supplier, GfK Distributor and Image Study Telecommunication

 

Company Management - Personality

"It is like an orchestra: The composer, the conductor and the instruments on their own achieve nothing – a piece of art only comes into existence if all participants employ their strength and expertise and breathe life into the ensemble."

2010
Axia Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Area of Human Resource Management

2007
Saxon Order of Merit for Gunnar Grosse

2007
Honorary Doctorate from the Chemnitz University of Applied Sciences for Gunnar Grosse

2006
Certificate for Dedicated Promotion of the Young Generation, Federal Employment Agency Chemnitz

2002
"Entrepreneur of the Year" Gunnar Grosse, Category Trade

2001
Chemnitz Milestone

1999
Management Prize of Saxony "Silver Lion"

1999
Oscar for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses

 

Innovation

"Progress = Development = Change = New Solutions"

2008
Innovation Prize from “Initiative Mittelstand” [German initiative promoting small and medium-sized businesses] for aetka‘s easy filius (category: "Industry Software") and aetkaTV (category: "Online Marketing").

2004
German Internet Prize from the Federal Ministry of Economics for the repair portal of the subsidiary w-support.com
2002
German Internet Prize from the German Federal Ministry for Economics for the order and information portal www.karlo.de

2003 / 1998
Innovation Prize from the Community of Mittweida




 

Social Commitment

"We are not employee-centered because we are successful. We are successful because we are employee-centered.”
2006
Basic Certificate from audit berufundfamilie®, an initiative of the non-profit Hertie Foundation, sponsored by the Federal Ministry for Family, Women, Youth and Senior Citizens.
2005
1st Place in the competition "Success Factor Family 2005", sponsored by the Federal Ministry for Family, Women, Youth and Senior Citizens. Patron: Gerhard Schröder. 

1999
"Most Women-Friendly Company in the Free State of Saxony"