Managers of the decade

For the first time, the Plus X Award has honored four leading businessmen in 2011 as “Managers of the Decade”. At a ceremony held at the renowned Business Club of Düsseldorf, the title was awarded to Rainer Führes, Chief of Consumer Imaging Canon Europe; Erich Geisser, managing director of Dyson GmbH; Helmut Geltner, managing director of De‘Longhi Germany GmbH, and Anton Schalkamp, managing director of Bose GmbH.

At the awards ceremony, the organizers, judges and goodwill ambassadors of the Plus X Award praised the four honorees. Well known trade journalists outlined the achievements and presented the certificates. Volker Wachs (Publisher of CE&TRADE digitalMarkt) held the laudatory speech for Rainer Führes, Andreas Rockenbauer (Publisher of E&W Österreich) held the laudatory speech for Erich Geisser. The laudator for Helmut Geltner was Peter Lanzendorf (Publisher of CE&TRADE digitalMarkt) and Olaf Sturm (Editor in chief of i-fidelity.net) held the laudatory speech for Anton Schalkamp

Well-known trade journalists accompanied the presentation of the certificates as laudators. Volker Wachs (publisher of CE&TRADE digitalMarkt) gave the laudation for Rainer Führes, Andreas Rockenbauer (publisher of E&W Austria) the laudation for Erich Geisser.

The laudator for Helmut Geltner was Peter Lanzendorf (publisher of CE&TRADE digitalMarkt), and Olaf Sturm (editor-in-chief of i-fidelity.net) gave the laudation for Anton Schalkamp.

Chaired by Peter Lanzendorf, a panel analysed the development of the relevant markets over the past decade and selected those to be honoured. Peter Lanzendorf: “At a time when managers work for a company only for short periods, a credible and consistent brand policy is often hard to develop.

Short-lived decisions in management lead to a lack of identification within the company and among its target groups. With the selected Managers of the Decade we want to make the point that long-term commitment to the company, to the brand and also to its employees establishes markets, gives brands a profile and thus creates advantages that secure the future of the company and its trading partners. All four managers demonstrate this impressively through their commitment.”