entrepreneur of the year 2004 chosen

Filed in archive Entrepreneurship on June 2, 2004

The entrepreneur of the year 2004 has been chosen by Ernst&Young. This years award goes to Philippines based Tony Tan Caktiong, founder of Jollibee Foods Corporation. Jollibee is the country's leading fast food chain and employs 26000 employees in 1000 branches leading to more than US$ 500 million in revenue.

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2004 International Entrepreneur of the Year award nominees (Source:Ernst&Young)

Australia	David Bussau AM	Opportunity International Australia Ltd.
Belgium	Frans Michielsen	Miko
Brazil	Luiz Augusto Milano	Matec Engenharia
Canada	Donald Triggs	Vincor International, Inc.
Caribbean	Laurie M. Barnard	St. Lucia Distillers Ltd.
Czech Republic	Zbyn�k Frol�k	LINET spol. s r.o.
Denmark	Michael Holm	Systematic Software Engineering A/S
Finland	Vesa Keskinen	Veljekset Keskinen Oy
France	Bruno Rousset	April Group
Germany	Hans Georg N�der	Otto Bock HealthCare GmbH
Hungary	Dr. S�ndor Cs�nyi	OTP Bank PLC
India	Ratan N. Tata	The Tata Group
Indonesia	Djoenaedi Joesoef	PT Konimex Pharmaceuticals Laboratories
Ireland	Liam Shanahan	Shanahan Engineering Ltd.
Israel	Dov Moran	M-Systems
Italy	Nerio Alessandri	Technogym
Japan	Mitsuhisa Ishikawa	Production I.G., Inc.
Malaysia	Dato' Mohd. Nadzmi	Nadicorp Holdings Sdn Bhd
Netherlands	Paul Schouwenaar	Zeeman Group BV
Norway	Inge Brigt Aarbakke	Aarbakke AS
Philippines	Tony Tan Caktiong	Jollibee Foods Corporation
Poland	Krzysztof Paw�owski Ph.D.	Wy�sza Szko�a Biznesu � NLU
Russia	Anatoly Karachinsky	IBS Group
Singapore	Mr. Ron Sim	OSIM International Ltd.
South Africa	Brian Joffe	The Bidvest Group Limited
Spain	Tom�s Fuertes Fern�ndez	Grupo Fuertes
Sweden	Torsten Jansson	New Wave Group AB
Switzerland	Stefan Arn	AdNovum Informatik AG
Turkey	S�leyman Orak��o�lu	ORKA Group
United Kingdom	Robert Wiseman	Robert Wiseman Dairies, PLC
United States	John Mackey	Whole Foods Market