Twenty-one companies made it to the finals of the SME of the Year award, from Banco Santander and the Chamber of Commerce

Small and medium-sized enterprises in the country are of exceptional importance for the Spanish economy. Banco Santander and the Spanish Chamber of Commerce are aware of this. The numbers speak for themselves. The productive structure of our country consists of two types of companies: large, which make up a small percentage of the entire network, and small and medium-sized companies, a very heterogeneous group that makes up 90% of the Spanish business ecosystem.

In order to recognize the complicated task that all these companies perform every day, the two entities will once again recognize the work of all of them through the National Award for Small and Medium Enterprises in 2022, an award convened by Banco Santander and the Chamber of Commerce of Spain annually and whose purpose to recognize the performance of small and medium-sized Spanish companies, whose activity is essential for the creation of jobs and wealth at the local level.

A total of 1,766 companies from fifty provinces and the autonomous city of Ceuta applied for the sixth edition of this award. Of all of them, 21 managed to enter the final stage of these awards. Five finalists will compete for the National Small and Medium Enterprise of the Year Award: Instituto Oftalmológico Fernández-Vega, from Asturias; Avs Added Value Industrial Engineering Solutions, from Guipúzco; Civic Software, from Granada; Grupo R Queraltó, from Seville and Bodega Matarromera, from Valladolid.

But apart from this recognition, Banco Santander and the Spanish Chamber of Commerce will also award four other awards that will recognize the work of different companies in different areas of the business world.

Thus, in the Internationalization category, the company Padel Courts Deluxe, from Alicante; Palma Pictures Tmpc, from the Balearic Islands; Nutris Ingredients, from Madrid and Fama Sofás, from Murcia. Those who stood out in the Innovation and digitalization category will also be awarded. Here, the companies that will compete to become the winner are Biowair Total Systems, from Asturias; Greenfield Technologies, from Badajoz; Biotech Foods from Guipúzcoa and Abora Energy from Zaragoza.

In the Training and Employment category, Vegenat from Badajoz will fight for the prize; Solideo Eco Systems, from Barcelona; Solutions Cuatroochenta, from Castellón and Inkor, from Guipúzcoa.

The last second prize will be reserved for those small and medium-sized enterprises that stand out for their sustainability. Acctia Medioambiental from A Coruña was chosen for the award in this category; Bealar, of Cuenza; El Agricultor Alegre, from Las Palmas and Cajamir, from Zamora.

The jury that will choose the winners will be chaired by the president of the Chamber of Commerce, José Luis Bonet. But it will also be part of the same Ángel Rivera (CEO of Santander in Spain); Asier González Linaza (director of Santander companies in Spain); Inmaculada Riera (Director General of the Chamber of Spain); Amanda Mars (Cinco Días director); Juan Cantón (General Manager of Prisa Media Press) and, finally, Isabel Puig Ferrer (President of the Commission for Small and Medium Enterprises of the Chamber of Commerce), who will act as secretary of the jury.

• National award for SME of the year
  • Fernández-Vega Institute of Ophthalmology
  • Avs Value-added industrial engineering solutions
  • Civil software
  • Group R Queralto
  • Matarromera Winery
• internationalization
  • Deluxe paddling courts
  • Palma Pictures Tmpc
  • Nutrient ingredients
  • famous sofas
• Innovations and digitalization
  • Biowair Total Systems
  • Greenfield technologies
  • Biotechnological food
  • Energy of Abor
• training and employment
  • vegan
  • Solideo Eco Systems
  • Four eighty solutions
  • incor
• sustainable SME
  • Environmental Protection
  • Bealar
  • Cheerful farmer
  • cajamir