Butler Bros. Supplies and Pepper’s Food Store took home this year’s Family Business Excellence Award, while Elspeth McGillivray from Prince of Whales Adventures was named the Family Business Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Butler Bros., which started in the 1930s as a trucking company, has evolved over the last nine decades, and is now two firms Butler Concrete and Aggregate and Butler Properties. Pepper’s Food Store, helmed by second-generation owner Cory Davits, was founded in 1962 and has grown to be a full-service grocer. “Our goal is to maintain the small community-store feeling while providing all the services of the larger chain store,” said Davits.
09/04/2021 14:56
Horatiu Tepes, Bilka CEO, was named on Thursday evening as the winner of the EY Entrepreneur of the Year - Romania 2020.
According to a press release from EY, he competed for the grand title with 38 other business leaders and will represent Romania in the EY World Entrepreneur of the Year World Final on June 10, 2021.
Bilka is a 100 pct Romanian company, from central Brasov, market leader in Romania in the field of roofing, specializing in the production and development of complete systems for roofs (metal tile, rain system and accessories) for residential and industrial constructions. In his 14 years of presence on the Romanian market, entrepreneur Horatiu Tepes has transformed the business from a roofing supplier into a European brand. Today, Bilka has the largest roofing systems factory in Eastern Europe and its products are increasingly known in the foreign markets.