Prague, 24th October 2008 – The companies of the Unipetrol Group or their representatives achieved success in all categories this year. The most important prize of this year’s edition of PETROLaward 08, the prestigious “Personality of the Year” award was won by the long-time member of Benzina’s management, Quality Manager ing. Václav Loula. His contribution to increasing the prestige of the petrol industry was appreciated by the jury and by the expert public in Internet voting in which he received several times more votes than other two nominees.Benzina was also very successful in the Fuel Stations category. It won PETROLaward 08 in the public voting for its original promotional campaign with DVDs. Benzina was the first to come up with the idea and started to sell DVDs to its clients for affordable prices. It also won another award indirectly – the expert jury awarded ISA Praha, for its design and implementation of rebranding of the Benzina Plus fuel stations.
The PETROLaward in the “Expert Publishing Activity” was won by Vysoká škola chemickotechnologická in Prague for its unique interactive web portal petroleum.cz. Česká rafinérská and Paramo participated in its creation. The second place was awarded, by the voting of the expert public and by the jury, to the Most Ecology Centre for “Chemistry and the Environment”. This project was created in cooperation with Unipetrol RPA and the company is still participating in its support.
Česká rafinérská won the PETROLaward 08 also for its successful completion of the Clean Fuels program, specifically for the selective hydrodesulphurisation unit put into operation in the Kralupy nad Vltavou refinery. It won two awards for the project: one by public vote and the other from the expert jury as the best in the category.
The PETROLawards competition is organised by PETROLmedia. This was its second year. Seven prizes are awarded in total in the competition; the winners are selected by a jury and in Internet voting by the expert public. The official announcement of the results took place during the PETROLsummit 08, held on 23rd October.
UNIPETROL, a.s. is a group of companies operating in the petrochemical industry in the Czech Republic. In 2005 UNIPETROL became a part of the PKN ORLEN group, the biggest oil processor in the Central Europe. The UNIPETROL Group is oriented mostly on oil processing, fuels distribution and petrochemical production. In all these business areas the UNIPETROL Group is among the key players both in the Czech Republic and on the Central European market. The Group belongs to the leading firms in the Czech Republic from the sales point of view and employs approximately 4500 persons.
Contact:
Blanka Růžičková
Spokesperson
UNIPETROL, a. s.
Telephone: 225 001 407, 731 881 111
E-mail: blanka.ruzickova@unipetrol.cz