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BP sponsors ‘EY Entrepreneur Of The Year’ competition

Release date:
25 April 2020
BP  is pleased to be supporting the ‘EY Entrepreneur Of The Year’ programme in Azerbaijan. The competition, which is the world’s most prestigious business awards programme for entrepreneurs founded by EY, is held for the first time in Azerbaijan

BP has joined the competition as partof its long-term commitment to helping the development of local small and medium sized businesses.  Together with its co-venturers, BP has been funding a multi-million dollar capacity-building programme for local enterprises since 2007.

 

“For more than a decade, together with our co-venturers, we have been supporting the development of local businesses and are proud to see the extraordinary progressof hundreds of companies who have participated in our “Enterprise Development Programme”. Many of them are now able to compete globally and have won millions of dollars contract awards from our operations and projects in Azerbaijan.“In our efforts to help develop the local supply chain, we are fully aligned with the aim of the EY “Entrepreneur Of The Year “ programme which for the first time ever will recognize entrepreneurial achievement of an individual or a company in Azerbaijan. Wewould like to thank the EY for this opportunity to join this prestigiou competition and look forward to seeing Azerbaijan’s representative among the best entrepreneurs from around the world.”the world.”

 

Bakhtiya r Aslanbayli, BP’s Vice President Communications, External Affairs, Strategy and Region

 

 

Notes to Editors

 

BP and itsco-venturers are committed to supporting local business development. The EnterpriseDevelopment Programme (EDP), initiated and funded by BP and its co-venturers, aims to assist local companies to improve their capability and  reach international standards to enhance their competitiveness  regionally  and globally. The programme also contributes to BP and co-venturers’ efforts aimed to increase local content of their contracts in Azerbaijan and the region.

 

Since the launch of EDP in 2007 till the end of 2019, BP and its co-venturers  spent   $8 million to support the development of  more than 2000 companies, of which  280 have to date completed the full programme.As a result, most of these companies have been able to secure hundreds of millions of dollars international contracts including those with BP in Azerbaijan.  

 

For more information about BP and co-venturers’ social investment projects please visit BP Azerbaijan site at www.bp.com/Azerbaijan.

 

Further information:

 

Tamam Bayatly at BP’s Press Office in Baku.

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