The German Stevie Awards are regarded as the most versatile business award in the German-speaking world and offer companies an international competition platform. The Stevie Awards are presented worldwide as part of nine programs. Every year, more than 12,000 applications are received from more than 70 nations. In Germany, there were more than 400 applications this year, which were evaluated by an expert jury of 50 managers. Awards are presented to organizations of all types and sizes as well as individuals from the business world.

"Our aim was to bring the anniversary motto 'People and technology in motion' and our company vision to life with various activities in the anniversary year - especially at the employee event. We are extremely pleased that our concept was successful and that we received so much enthusiastic feedback - crowned by today's Gold Stevie Award," says Sabine Hauß, Teamlead Marketing Campaigns & Live-Communication and Project Manager of the employee event. "Throughout the entire anniversary year, we set targeted highlights month after month," adds Helge E. Jost, Marketing Campaign Manager and overall project manager, citing, for example, the international Jumo fundraiser for SOS Children's Villages worldwide, the specially created Jumo song and two tree-planting campaigns in the Rhön region. Employees, customers and partners were all involved.

Reach and activate the community

The Jumo employee event received the Gold Award in the "Events" category for "Best Community Engagement Event". This category recognizes events that serve to activate, strengthen or celebrate a community. In the "Corporate Communications" category, the employee campaign for the entire anniversary year received a bronze award for "Community Engagement". This includes all campaigns that have contributed to reaching or moving a community in a certain way. Hauß and Jost thanked the eight other colleagues on the anniversary project team as well as all the helpers at the employee event. "It was a strong team effort that was only possible thanks to the joint commitment of everyone involved," they both emphasized.