According to the ranking of Business Week e Europe's Enterpreneurs for Growth
Milan, October 19 2004 - e.Biscom S.p.A. (Milan, Nuovo Mercato: EBI), Italy's leading broadband telecommunications company, is present amongst Business Week Europe's 100 hot growth companies, firms that have heavily contributed to boosting economies and jobs creating, according to the magazine. Italy is represented in this list by nine companies: e.Biscom the only one in the ICT domain.
Business Week and Europe's Enterpreneurs for Growth, a Bruxelles - based organization that represents more than 3,000 enterpreneurs, have stressed the results achieved, in a languishing economy, by companies (up to 500 Europewide: www.businessweek.com/magazine/extra.htm) active in 15 countries Europe (adding on top Iceland, Norway and Switzerland) with the following features:
- being founded before 2001;
- at least 50 employees in 2003 and a maximum of 5,000 in 2000;
- no single shareholder with a stake of more than 50%;
- a minimum stake in the company still owned by the entrepreneur/founder.