Car Parts Maker TPV Gets Business Excellence Award

Brdo pri Kranju, 18 January (STA) - President Danilo Türk on Wednesday

conferred the Slovenian Business Excellence Award for 2011 to the Novo

mesto-based car parts maker TPV. Excellence means being bold, courageous

and open for changes and new challenges, but also remaining just, the

president said at the award ceremony in Brdo pri Kranju.

Türk noted that the European model of excellence was still relatively

poorly spread in Slovenia, adding that the award was a call to all

successful Slovenian managers to actively engage in introducing the basic

principles of excellence in businesses and public institutions.

The

award was conferred this year after a four-year break, as TPV was the only

company to meet the strict criteria for the country's main award for

quality of business based on the development of know-how and innovation in

the last four years.

TPV, which employs 595 people, supplies parts

for most global car producers from its plants in Slovenia, Serbia and

Russia.

According to CEO Vladimir Gregor Bahč, the company's

competitive advantages are the ambition and loyalty of the employees, focus

on innovation, constant progress and original, proactive and flexible

work.

Since 1998, the Business Excellence Award has been conferred to

a total of eleven companies or organisations. The 56-member committee for

the 2011 award chose TPV among ten applicants.