Indra awarded by the Circulo de Empresarios and Wharton School of Pennsylvania for its international trajectory

His Royal Highness the Prince of Asturias presented Indra's Managing Director Javier de Andrés, with the award of the Circulo de Empresarios and the Wharton School of Pennsylvania acknowledging the company’s trajectory in the international market. Indra has been acknowledged as one of the first Spanish companies with a stronger international presence since 1993, where it was born, and with sales accounting nearly for a 50% of revenues. 

The event took place today during the presentation of the Círculo de empresarios-Wharton School's yearbook about the internationalization of Spanish companies, 2011 at the headquarters of the Ramón Areces Foundation in Madrid. Besides Indra, Acerinox and Grifols were also awarded.

For five years the Circulo de empresarios and the well-known Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania have published a yearbook about the international position of those Spanish companies whose trajectory deserves acknowledgement, and this year Indra has received the award.

Claudio Boada, Chairman of the Circulo de Empresarios and Mauro Guillén, Director of the Lauder Institute-Wharton School intervened and Antonio Vázquez, Chairman of Iberia spoke on behalf of the award winners.

The event was also attended by Deputy Minister for Commerce, Jaime García-Legaz Ponce and was brought to a close by His Royal Highness Prince of Asturias.

Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is among the world’s leading and most prestigious business schools. Founded in 1881 by Joseph Wharton, notable international leaders, heads of State and Nobel laureates have attended the school. The school has a long tradition of educating entrepreneurs or outstanding personalities of the academic, entrepreneurial, governmental sectors or non-profit associations. Wharton, with 88,000 alumni, 5,000 students of academic programmes and nearly 9,000 annual participants in executive education programs, represents a thorough source of business knowledge worldwide 

Indra

Indra is the premier Information Technology company in Spain and a leading IT multinational in Europe and Latin America. It is ranked as the second European company in its sector according to investment in R&D with over € 500 M during the last three years. In 2010 revenues reached € 2,557 M and the international market already accounts for a 44%. The company employs more than 35,000 professionals and has clients in more than 110 countries.