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The Industrial Marketing Award 2008

March 2008. Claymount has received from Mrs Maria van der Hoeven, Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs a nomination for “The Industrial Marketing Award 2008 “. Claymount was nominated with 5 other companies in the Netherlands to receive the award. This nomination between the Best in Class is another milestone and recognition of Claymounts ongoing improvement in our Industrial Services.

We congratulate the winner “Ulstein-Sea of solutions”.

The other nominees were:

CSi Industries, develops/designs intelligent material handling solutions with guaranteed system uptime, for producers of Fast Moving Consumer Goods. (FMCG)
WP-Haton specialises in the research, manufacture and supply of innovative total concepts for automated dough processing.
Fokker Elmo is a specialist for Electrical Systems & Electronics for Commercial, Business, Defense and also Space applications.
Cummins, is a corporation that design, manufacture, distribute and service engines and related technologies, including fuel systems, controls, air handling, filtration, emission solutions and electrical power generation systems.
Claymount is a specialist high voltage cable connection system and x-ray system components manufacturer, serving markets in the X-ray industry.
Ulstein-Sea of Solutions, develops/designs ships for the exploration of oil and gas fields.

The six nominees with the Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs, Mrs. Maria van der Hoeven

Jeffrey Tierie and the Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs, Mrs Maria van der Hoeven.

(source Foto's: Ernest Selleger Fotografie)

This award is an initiative of the competence centre “Stichting Techniek en Marketing (STEM)”, which is specialized in marketing for technical oriented companies. The primary goal is to promote and develop knowledge of industrial marketing for business-to-business organizations. Only through the right combination of technical and marketing skills, an effective marketing strategy can be developed.

The event was sponsored by the ING bank

2008, March

Claymount in the Netherlands has been chosen among the 50 best managed, privately owned companies in the Netherlands. This prestigious award with the title, Netherlands 50 best managed companies 2008, is to be received on June 4th.

Persbericht

Principal shareholder-director companies excel in talent management and technology

- Deloitte announces 50 best managed principal shareholder-director companies in the Netherlands -

Rotterdam, 6 March 2008 – For the first time, Deloitte selected the top scoring 50 companies in the ‘Building the Best’ competition for principal shareholder-director companies. These companies, managed by a principal shareholder-director, scored highest in financial management, talent management and the use of technology, the jury said. The fifty nominated companies may carry their honorary title ‘50 Dutch Best Managed Companies 2008’ for one year. The management teams of the winning principal shareholder-director companies will be celebrated at a formal dinner on 4 June 2008.

The jury concluded in its preliminary report that Dutch principal shareholder-director companies score high in financial management, recruitment and retention of talent, and clever use of technology solutions. Low to average scores were achieved in risk management, strategic alliances, and leadership coaching. The winning companies will receive specialist feedback from Deloitte experts on both strong and weak points.

An independent jury led by the chairman of the Chamber of Commerce in the Netherlands, Thijs Wöltgens, selected the 50 best managed companies in the Netherlands for the first time. Some 150 principal shareholder-director companies participated in the competition ‘Building the Best’, a joint initiative of Deloitte and the Chamber of Commerce Netherlands, Nyenrode Business University, Stichting Ondernemersklankbord, and VNO-NCW, the Confederation of Netherlands Industry and Employers.

In contrast with other management awards, ‘Building the Best’ addresses principal shareholder-director non-listed companies with more than 50 employees and sales of at least EUR 10 million in all sectors of industry. The award ‘Best managed company’ is an award for the whole company, not just for the shareholder-director himself. Apart from measuring sales and growth, the jury assessed the planning and implementation of strategic policies. The programme ‘Building the Best’ is a Deloitte initiative to focus attention and gain recognition for the best managed principal shareholder-director companies in the Netherlands.

Deloitte Canada has held such competitions for the last 15 years. In their experience, the companies who were awarded the title ‘best managed company’ benefitted from the positive spin-off of the award both in value of the company and in employee satisfaction.

Page 2: list of companies (in alphabetical order)

More information and the jury report at www.buildingthebest.nl

Contact:
Marie-Christine Lanser-Reusken, press officer 010 - 272 1490 of 06-12581977 of mlanser@deloitte.nl

2008, March

Another milestone wil be reached within the Claymount Group of companies. As off March 25, 2008, our new Sales facility in Bologna, Italy will be operational to service our present customer base in Italy and grow marketshare through Claymounts continuously expanding product port-folio. More information...

2008, February

Claymount will open a new Claymount Italy sales and warehouse facility in Bologna, Italy. In order to improve the service to our Italian customer base we need to be close to them so we can shorten our lead times and reduce transport cost. This new facility will be operational in March, 2008. More detailed information will follow soon.

2008, February

A new milestone in the companies quality assurance has been achieved. Next to ISO 9001:2000 Claymount has been certified also according to the standard EN ISO 13485 : 2003. ( Medical Devices-Quality Management Systems -Requirements for regulatory purposes)

2008, January

The Claymount Group of companies showed an ongoing strong performance in the year 2007, which resulted in a 26 % overall growth. All Claymount facilities contributed to this excellent result

2008, January

Claymount, for the first time very successfully exhibited in India. It participated in the IRIA 2008 in Bangalore with its own booth, together with its sales representative in India, M/s Global Imaging.