Cecot's Nit de l'Empresa will present its Personalitat 2023 award this Thursday to the general director of Frit Ravich, Judith Viader. The now award-winner promoted the transformation and expansion of the business, based in Maçanet de la Selva. She assumed the general management of Frit Ravich in 1997, taking over the generational relay in the ownership of the company, which was founded by her father in 1963.
The company recently celebrated its 60th anniversary, and in this period it has consolidated itself as a benchmark in the production of snacks such as potato chips and nuts. It is also a leader in the distribution of external brands, as it has more than 4,000 references. The second-generation family business has a team of more than 1,000 professionals, serves more than 50,000 points of sale weekly, and manages 3,700 daily orders.
Viader's will not be the only award to be presented this Thursday night, at an event that will begin at 7:00 p.m. Within the Business Progress Awards, the jury has also decided to recognize the Club Natació Terrassa, for its commitment to energy efficiency and sustainability, with an award sponsored by the Port de Barcelona. In the field of digital transformation and the industry sector, sponsored by the Consorcio de la Zona Franca de Barcelona (CZFB), the jury has chosen to recognize the Terrassa company Comser.
The transport company TGO DX and the on-demand transport technological solution bus4.me will receive the digital transformation award for the services sector, sponsored by eDiversa Group. In the commerce sector and with the support of the Consorcio de Comercio, Artesanía y Moda (CCAM) of the Generalitat, the clothing and jewelry brand Mindtraveler BCN has won.
The design of Nomade Nation's camper vans has won the award for Best Business Initiative, promoted by the Cercle Cecot de Joves Emprenedors and sponsored by Occident. The CaixaBank Responsible SME award went to Centre Dental Les Escoles, and the Vítaly Healthy Company Award went to Leitat Technological Center. For its part, the Associació Sant Cugat Empresarial has been recognized as a business association, in a category that was out of competition. In addition, the centenary companies associated with the entity Moventia and Texia will be distinguished.
The Cecot Business Progress Awards aim to publicly recognize the effort and daily overcoming of companies, institutions, and the people who form them, as well as reward their contribution to economic and business development. The awards will be presented at an event hosted by journalist Xavier Coral, and which will feature The New Barcelona Post as one of the collaborating media outlets.
Aragonès and Bolaños, among the 800 attendees
The Nit de l'Empresa of Cecot will be attended by the President of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès; the Minister of the Presidency, Relations with the Cortes and Democratic Memory, Félix Bolaños; the President of the Parliament, Anna Erra; the mayor of Sant Cugat, Josep Maria Vallès, and the mayor of Terrassa, Jordi Ballart. Also attending will be the ministers of Business and Labor, Roger Torrent; Social Rights, Carles Campuzano, and Interior, Joan Ignasi Elena.
The president of the Port de Barcelona, Lluís Salvadó; the president of the Cambra de Barcelona, Josep Santacreu; the president of Fira de Barcelona, Pau Relat, and former presidents of the Generalitat Artur Mas and José Montilla also figure among the authorities, which will include representatives from the university, social, economic, and political spheres. The forecast is that the event will bring together more than 800 people at the Theater-Auditorium in the Vallès city.
The employers' association has modified the name of the meeting, until now known as La Nit de l'EmpresariThis is the first time that Sant Cugat hosts the Nit de l'Empresa, which this year reaches its 28th editionand until now it had been held in Barcelona and Terrassa. The president of Cecot, Xavier Panés, explained upon announcing the event's venue that the choice of Sant Cugat reaffirms its "commitment to the business fabric of one of the most industrialized regions in Southern Europe, such as Vallès as a whole." The recovery of itinerancy is not the only novelty of this edition, as the employers' association has decided to modify the name of the meeting, until now called The Night of the Entrepreneur and now organized as The Company Night.
The binomial of human and artificial intelligence
Cecot's Nit de l'Empresa will focus this edition on artificial intelligence and its relationship with human intelligence. Thus, it will address the binomial of technology and human factor, from the conviction that it is a driver of progress and that human intelligence is the engine of artificial intelligence. The meeting will thus address the implementation of AI in diverse fields, which also affect medium-term business decision-making.
The event will address the relationship between technology and the human factor from the conviction that this binomial drives progressFor the second consecutive year, Cecot will make the Nit de l'Empresa a carbon neutrality event. The president of the employers' association assures that they prioritize the promotion of business activity and economic growth, but that they ensure that this "is conscious, respectful and sustainable, since not everything goes."