This year Centiro Solutions AB is awarded the Swedish Quality Award, Sweden's most prestigious quality award. Companies that show visible results of their successful quality work can receive the award. NorDan AB receives Recognition for Successful Business Development.

Since 1992, SIQ - Institute for Quality Development has awarded the Swedish Quality Award to organizations that systematically develop their quality and improvement work at the organizational level and thereby achieve sustainable success.

Common to this year's recipients of the Swedish Quality Award and the recipient of the Recognition for Successful Business Development are:

The employees' clear customer focus and great commitment are important factors behind their success. In addition, there is a large and successful focus on innovation and sustainability, says Anders Mellberg Chairman of SIQ's judging committee.

The five areas that determine who gets the award are the ability to create value with customers and stakeholders, lead for sustainability, involve motivated employees, develop value-creating processes, and work with improvements and create innovations.

Centiro Solutions AB - recipient of the Swedish Quality Award 2021.

Reasoning of the panel of judges:
Centiro is an innovator of cloud services for managing the flow of goods in e-commerce, logistics and industry. Leading companies and brands in more than 175 countries use its solutions. The company has a strong growth, good financial sustainability and thus contributes to leading sustainability in the field of logistics.

For Centiro, employees are the company's most important resource and great emphasis is placed on creating a culture where everyone feels involved in the company's success. The strong corporate culture allows the courage to challenge traditional norms and established approaches to build value-creating services and processes.

Through innovative solutions and dedicated customer teams, Centiro has developed its processes and working methods in a unique way and created a world-class customer-oriented business development. Centiro is a very good role model and a worthy recipient of the Swedish Quality Award.

Centiro is a Swedish software company focused on connecting and enabling cloud-based delivery and service networks in the digital world. With a global hub in Borås and offices in the UK, India and the US, the group employs around 500 people and has a growth rate of 30% per year. In 2021, Centiro was named Sweden's best workplace by Great Place to Work®. centiro.com

NorDan AB - recipient of the Recognition for Successful Business Development 2021.

NorDan AB conducts proactive and well-planned quality work that is permeated by customer orientation and participation, as evidenced by the employees' strong commitment to customers. The company has a quality-conscious leadership where the vision and business objectives are known and integrated into the company's working methods and there are systematic working methods for measuring and providing feedback on results.

There is also a clear commitment to sustainable development where the UN's global goals are made clear in business management. NorDan AB is a good example where innovative solutions are developed with the customer in focus and is therefore well deserving of a Recognition for Successful Business Development within the framework of the Swedish Quality Award.

NorDan was founded in 1926, and has today grown into a group with about 2200 employees and a group turnover of approx. 4 billion SEK. The NorDan Group has for more than 90 years shown how technology, innovation and creativity have resulted in quality. The Swedish operations of NorDan, with sales offices, factories and administration are gathered in the company NorDan AB, which is headquartered in Tanumshede. The company has 350 employees and is a leading supplier of windows and doors to the Swedish construction industry. Read more at NorDan .se

Swedish Quality Award highlights role models

The Swedish Quality Award is given to organizations that have demonstrated significant results from their successful quality work. The operations are highlighted from a holistic perspective where strengths and opportunities for improvement are identified in detail based on SIQ Management model, which is a basis for how organizations achieve success with their operations.

The purpose of the Swedish Quality Award is to support the development of systematic improvement work at the organizational level and to highlight good examples to inspire others, both in the private and public sectors.

The refereeing committee consists of

• Anders Mellberg, Consultant and former CEO Agria, Chairman of the Judges' Committee
• Ann-Charlotte Järnström, Director of VästKom
• Håkan Wiklund, Professor, Mid Sweden University
• Åke Ljungdahl, Director, VOLVO Cars

For more information contact:

• Göran Lundwall, interim CEO SIQ - Institute for Quality Development, 070-593 21 52, goran.lundwall@siq.se
• Niklas Hedin, CEO Centiro, 033-29 77 00, niklas.hedin@centiro.com
• Dag Kroslid, CEO, NorDan AB, 076-677 00 01, dag.kroslid@nordan.se