These Awards give recognition to the top family businesses and leaders in Europe and highlight the essential role family businesses play in contributing to employment and economic growth in the region.

This year’s winners are:

• Top Family Business of the Year : Europa-Park – Mack family (Germany)

• Top Family Business Leader of the Year : Nadja Swarovski – Swarovski (Austria)

• Top Family Business Rising Star : Felix Fiege - Fiege Group (Germany)

• Top Next Generation Entrepreneur : Joint winners: Michael Mack – VR Coaster (Germany) and Cameron Saul – Bottletop (UK)

• Top Non-Family Director of the Year : Monica Mondardini – CIR Group (Italy)

• Top Sustainable Business of the Year: Messer Group (Germany)

Societe Generale Private Banking accompanies many of Europe’s leading family businesses through key moments in their personal and professional careers, helping entrepreneurs and business owners structure their personal assets in order to protect, develop and pass them on to future generations. In particular, Societe Generale’s “Private Investment Banking” offering allows clients who have a holding company or a family office to benefit from access to all the expertise within the Group, in terms of wealth management and investment banking, for the management of their private wealth and their business.

*Campden Wealth is a branch of Campden Media, a mixed-media publishing, events and research company serving notably wealth owners, represented by family businesses and family offices. Campden Wealth publishes well recognized magazines such as Campden Family Business (CampdenFB) and Campden Family Office (CampdenFO).