OREANDA-NEWS. Kernel, a leading diversified agribusiness company in the Black Sea region listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, has been awarded Best Foreign Company of the Year at the CEE Capital Markets Awards Gala hosted by leading Polish business media organizations EquitiesPoland.pl and BiznesPolska in Warsaw.

“We had 3 main goals in organizing these awards”, said Thom Barnhardt, organizer of the inaugural CEE Capital Markets Awards. “First, we wanted to draw more global investor attention to the CEE region - stretching from the Baltics to the Black Sea – with its more-dynamic economies than Western Europe - to attract more global investors to the region's great companies. Secondly, we wanted to highlight top entrepreneurs and managers that are creating and building great companies.”

The third goal, according to Barnhardt, is to shine a light on top institutional investors. “Especially those doing the extra work to discover rising stars in the region. Investors in these more dynamic companies are in fact doing much better than index-huggers or those who don't do much homework.”

The 1st annual CEE Capital Markets Awards Gala was held on 17 September 2015 at the InterContinental Hotel in Warsaw, Poland, attracting more than 100 people to celebrate publicly-listed companies who are leading the dynamic and fast-paced changes in the CEE region's capital markets sector. A total of 126 nominations were received from Poland, Romania, Ukraine, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Estonia, Bulgaria, Austria, Germany, Slovenia ... and China. The final short-list included 83 leading companies, who competed for the top-prize in 18 categories.

The awards jury was made up of international and domestic institutional investors from throughout CEE, Western Europe, North America, Asia and the Gulf States; the final jury vote was overseen by PwC.

Kernel, a leading diversified agribusiness company in the Black Sea region listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, has been awarded Best Foreign Company of the Year at the CEE Capital Markets Awards Gala hosted by leading Polish business media organizations EquitiesPoland.pl and BiznesPolska in Warsaw.

“We had 3 main goals in organizing these awards”, said Thom Barnhardt, organizer of the inaugural CEE Capital Markets Awards. “First, we wanted to draw more global investor attention to the CEE region - stretching from the Baltics to the Black Sea – with its more-dynamic economies than Western Europe - to attract more global investors to the region's great companies. Secondly, we wanted to highlight top entrepreneurs and managers that are creating and building great companies.”

The third goal, according to Barnhardt, is to shine a light on top institutional investors. “Especially those doing the extra work to discover rising stars in the region. Investors in these more dynamic companies are in fact doing much better than index-huggers or those who don't do much homework.”

The 1st annual CEE Capital Markets Awards Gala was held on 17 September 2015 at the InterContinental Hotel in Warsaw, Poland, attracting more than 100 people to celebrate publicly-listed companies who are leading the dynamic and fast-paced changes in the CEE region's capital markets sector. A total of 126 nominations were received from Poland, Romania, Ukraine, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Estonia, Bulgaria, Austria, Germany, Slovenia ... and China. The final short-list included 83 leading companies, who competed for the top-prize in 18 categories.

The awards jury was made up of international and domestic institutional investors from throughout CEE, Western Europe, North America, Asia and the Gulf States; the final jury vote was overseen by PwC.