2 December 2008 - For immediate release

On Thursday 27 November, the organisers of the European Business Awards announced the names of the finalists for the International Entrepreneur of the Year 2009. As one of only ten finalists in this category from 27 European countries, Warren Vick of Europa Technologies will be presented with a Ruban d'Honneur award in recognition of his entrepreneurial success, on an international scale.

On 7 April 2009, all Ruban d'Honneur recipients will gather in Rome for an awards ceremony where the winner in each of the ten award categories will be announced.

Prior to collecting his award and as part of the judging process to decide the overall winner, Warren will present to a panel of Judges drawn from industry experts from across Europe and consisting of heads of state, industrialists and media commentators.

Warren founded Europa Technologies in the early 1990's to develop comprehensive world maps with rich features for the entire world. Today, the company licenses its range of products directly and through a network of over 100 resellers worldwide. On hearing news of the award Warren said, "Although we are a small Surrey-based company, our products are deployed across the globe and to receive recognition for this achievement on a European scale gives all of us at Europa Technologies much to celebrate. To be a finalist in our first year of entering the awards is a great boost for the company and I look forward to meeting my fellow finalists and presenting to the judging panel in more detail."

About Europa Technologies

Europa Technologies is a specialist manufacturer of digital world map data for a wide variety of market sectors and applications. Our products allow organisations with international interests to better understand their customers, assets and markets, in a geographic context, to gain a competitive or strategic advantage. Topographic and satellite imagery products from Europa Technologies are used by many Fortune Global 500 companies and several missions of the United Nations. Europa Technologies is also the official supplier of mobile network coverage maps to the GSM Association, the global trade organisation for the leading mobile telecommunications standard. The company has global licence agreements with a number of leading Internet-based service providers including Google Earth/Maps (USA), Multimap (UK), ViaMichelin (France) and Maps24 (Germany). Through deployment via Google alone, our world data products are used by over 350 million people, approximately 1 in 4 of Internet users world-wide and our mobile coverage maps are accessed by over 20 million unique users, each year.

For further information, please visit www.europa.uk.com

About The European Business Awardss

The European Business Awards is an independent awards programme designed to recognise and promote excellence, best practice and innovation in the European business community, in line with the broad aims of the European Union and business representative groups across the member states. The European Business Awards highlight and promote examples of individuals and organisations that achieve outstanding results across a variety of disciplines. The awards involve some of Europe's key political figures, top academics and media representatives from Europe's most influential newspapers including the Wall Street Journal Europe.

For further information, please visit www.businessawardseurope.com

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