Awarded for the third time with the Axia Best Managed Companies Award

Great joy for Arnulf and Olaf Piepenbrock (center) as Sebastian Drossmann (Credit Suisse, left) and Heiko Engelhardt (Deloitte GmbH, right) present them with the Axia Best Managed Companies Award. (Image: Piepenbrock Unternehmensgruppe GmbH + Co. KG)

The triple is perfect: Piepenbrock is a winner of the Axia Best Managed Companies Award in 2021, following 2019 and 2020. (Image: Piepenbrock Unternehmensgruppe GmbH + Co. KG)

Piepenbrock is a winner of the Axia Best Managed Companies Award 2021. The award is given annually by Deloitte Private, Credit Suisse, WirtschaftsWoche, and BDI to outstandingly managed companies. After receiving the award in 2019 and 2020, the building services company has now been honored for the third consecutive time.

Once again this year, Piepenbrock was able to impress in the categories of Strategy, Productivity and Innovation, Governance and Finance, as well as Culture and Commitment with entrepreneurial excellence. Therefore, Heiko Engelhardt from Deloitte GmbH and Sebastian Drossmann from Credit Suisse presented the Axia Best Managed Companies Award to the managing partners Arnulf and Olaf Piepenbrock. "We are very pleased to be awarded the Axia Best Managed Companies Award for the third time in a row," Olaf Piepenbrock expresses happiness about the recognition and continues: "The success of our company is based on continuous development. Through flat hierarchies, we can adapt very quickly and flexibly to new challenges. We convince our customers and employees not only through our high reliability and commitment but also through a sustainable corporate orientation." This approach is recognized by Deloitte Private, Credit Suisse, WirtschaftsWoche, and BDI.

Role model for other companies

Prior to receiving the award, Piepenbrock underwent a multi-stage selection process. In addition to an online questionnaire and a personal coaching interview, extensive application documents had to be submitted. Subsequently, an expert council and a professional jury composed of representatives from business, science, and the media selected the winners. "From developing forward-looking strategies and innovative processes to effective corporate governance structures and a healthy corporate culture: like all recipients of the Axia Best Managed Companies Award, Piepenbrock stands out for entrepreneurial excellence and once again sets standards in all key areas of corporate management," emphasizes Lutz Meyer, Partner and Head of Deloitte Private. With this, Piepenbrock also assumes a role model function for other companies.

About the Axia Best Managed Companies Program

The Axia Best Managed Companies Program is a competition and quality seal conducted by Deloitte Private, WirtschaftsWoche, Credit Suisse, and BDI in Germany for successful medium-sized companies. The vision: building a national and global ecosystem of excellently managed medium-sized enterprises. A key unique selling point of Best Managed Companies is its internationality: Best Managed Companies was launched by Deloitte in Canada in the 1990s and has since been successfully introduced in more than 30 countries.