Science journalist Ranga Yogeshwar will present the award on 23 June 2023 Berlin, February 2023
– For the seventh time, ehotel® has been awarded the Top 100 seal as one of the country’s most innovative companies. The scientific selection process underlying the compamedia competition takes more than 100 criteria into account to assess innovation-promoting top management, the innovation climate, innovative processes and organisation, external orientation or open innovation, and innovation success. The Berlin-based company ehotel® has impressed in all five categories – particularly as ehotel®’s innovation success has not been a matter of chance for many years, but is demonstrably systematically planned and repeatable. “Innovation goals are part of our DNA,” explains Fritz Zerweck, CEO of ehotel®, “we work in a customer-focused manner and constantly respond to changes in the industry and the wishes of our customers.”
In 2000, ehotel® set out to simplify business travel for companies and employees – from booking to expense claims. This idea gave rise to innovations that have fundamentally transformed the market, such as the unique meta-search technology, which filters through over 7 million hotel rooms to display only valid offers and takes company policies into account during the search itself, or applies filters for amenities, comfort, climate protection and more. In addition, ehotel® offers various tools such as the ehotel® Rate Manager, which helps to optimise rate negotiations and bookings, and ehotel® Analytics, which allows travel volumes to be analysed and potential savings identified with minimal effort. With many other features, ehotel® fully covers the areas of sourcing, payment and billing to support business travellers, travel agents, buyers and accountants in the planning and execution of individual trips, group travel, meetings, conferences and major events. “Fairness and transparency form the basis of our entire offering,” emphasises Fritz Zerweck, “these values not only benefit our customers, but are also important for our employees to be creative and think ahead to the future.”
The Top 100 award will be presented at a ceremony on 23 June 2023 during the German SME Summit. Science journalist Ranga Yogeshwar will personally congratulate the winners in his capacity as the competition’s mentor.
TOP 100: the
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Since 1993, compamedia has been awarding the TOP 100 seal to SMEs for exceptional innovative strength and above-average innovation achievements. Since 2002, the scientific direction has been in the hands of Prof. Dr Nikolaus Franke. Franke is the founder and director of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. With 26 research awards and over 200 publications to his name, he is one of the world’s leading innovation researchers. The mentor for the TOP 100 is science journalist Ranga Yogeshwar. Project partners include the Fraunhofer Society for the Promotion of Applied Research and the German Association for Small and Medium-sized Businesses (BVMW). The magazines manager magazin, impulse and ZEIT für Unternehmer are supporting the business comparison as media partners.
Further information and registration at www.top100.de
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Further information and general image material on the TOP 100 competition can be found online at www.top100.de/presse or by emailing presse@compamedia.de
. The hotel booking platform ehotel® aggregates accommodation offers from all providers worldwide on a single platform using meta-search technology. The Berlin-based company focuses its business strategy on providing comprehensive support for hotel bookings and related services for business customers. By integrating tools and services into the systems of the respective companies and using proprietary payment and billing solutions, ehotel® ensures optimised processes, seamless expenditure control, compliance and cost savings for its customers. The booking platform has repeatedly been recognised for its service quality by, among others, the German Institute for Service Quality and the market research institute ServiceValue.
