BR Awards 2014: Win invitations to the premier business gala of the year

The cogs have been set in motion for a new edition of the Business-Review Annual Investment Awards. Every year, Business Review puts the spotlight on the achievements of the Romanian business community.

Already in its 9th year, the BR Awards introduces a special category in 2014: “Best Effort to Support Romania’s Image”. This is the first time when a category will have a winner decided through public vote, by means of an online poll on the BR Awards Event Page.

Business Review felt it should award the campaigns and individuals that went to great lengths to promote Romania’s image abroad, especially in the arts & culture and creative sectors. Nobody benefits more from the actions of the candidates than Romanians and expats living here, so it’s fitting they will decide who represented them best in 2013.

Two of the voters will be awarded double invitations to the BR Awards Gala on March 6, 2014, at the Athenee Palace Hilton.

Business Review provided the initial options for the poll, choosing the campaigns, projects, companies and individuals that stood out in 2013 and promoted Romania positively in the entire world.

The George Enescu Music Festival

One of the biggest music festivals in Eastern Europe broke record after record in 2013. It brought over 3.000 foreign artists to Bucharest and 9 other cities in Romania. 120.000 ticket paying spectators enjoyed the 150 concerts around the country. Out of these, 20.000 were foreigners. Furthermore, 22.000 tickets were sold within 2 hours of the festival opening online sales on April 15.

Pozitia Copilului

The most successful Romanian movie to come out in 2013 is Calin Peter Netzer’s “The Child’s Pose/Pozitia Copilului”. The film premiered in competition at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Golden Bear. Luminita Gheorghiu was nominated as the Best Actress at the 26th European Film Awards and the film won the Telia Film Award at the Stockholm International Film Festival 2013.

“Why don’t you come over?” – Gandul, Webstyler and GMP Campaign

“Why don’t you come over?” was Romanian media’s response to the negative campaign that British tabloids ran with declaring that a Romanian and Bulgarian invasion of the UK would start on January 1st 2014. Romanian GMP Advertising and Romanian online daily Gandul.info came up with a campaign that, taking in consideration how “awful” UK is supposed to be according to the planned campaign, invites Brits to come to Romania, because they will surely love it there. The campaign generated reactions in over 100 news outlets, among them BBC, Reuters, Washington Post, Huffington Post and others.

Prince Charles

Prince Charles made several visits to Romania in 2013, each time focusing the media’s attention on the country’s numerous gifts. The heir to the British throne said in the third part of the documentary “Wild Carpathia” that Romania is a wonderful country with remarkable people and the pastures in this country are unique. The prince expressed a desire to help Romania preserve its rural cultural heritage.

“These people have been through a lot, they have seen much suffering, destruction, and their lives have been destroyed. We owe it to find a path for a better future that they should preserve their culture, traditions and values, ” said Prince Charles.

La Blouse Roumaine

La Blouse Roumaine is the first online community dedicated to “ia”, the traditional Romanian shirt. In 2013, the community proposed june 24 (the first day of the holiday called Sanziene) to be recognized as “The International Day of Ia”. The event proved popular, and it was celebrated by people wearing the famous blouse in over 50 countries on 6 continents.

Bio Romania Association

Bio – Romania Association is a Romanian non-profit, non governmental, apolitical and independent legal entity. The association was formed in September 2008. The Association advocates for sustainable development of agriculture and rural space, education, information and consumer awareness of the benefits of organic farming for both human health and natural health by promoting the consumption of certified organic foods. On short term, the Association is campaigning to create favorable economic conditions for Romanian farmers who practice organic farming, in similar terms with the help received by organic farmers from other EU states.

Magiunul Topoloveni

This brand of traditional romanian jam had an excellent year, entering the markets of Finland, Switzerland and Japan thanks to an european project enrolled by Sonimpex with partners from Greece and Italy.

273 de locuri pe care trebuie sa le vezi inainte sa pleci din Romania

A wonderful Facebook page promoting Romania’s incredible beauty managed to reach over 400.000 fans in 2013, thanks to the efforts of the project’s creator, Magda Savuica.

“I live in a country where if you want to do Good… You can! There is so much need for Good in Romania!” – Magda Savuica.

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The audience is invited to make their own proposals, if they feel there is another project that obtained better results than the options offered. Keep in mind that in order to make a new proposal, you will have to sacrifice your vote.

Furthermore, users need to be registered on the business-review.eu website in order to be able to vote.

Besides getting the opportunity to thank the creators of these projects and campaigns for their efforts in improving Romania’s image, the voters are also entering a sweepstakes that may afford them double invitations to the BR Awards Gala on March 6th, at Athenee Palace Hilton.

Voting starts NOW and will end on March 2nd.

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