GWS announced today that it has won the highly prestigious Red Herring Top 100 Europe Award, which honors the most promising technology companies in Europe.
Red Herring editorial team selects the most innovative companies across Europe. The nominees are judged on 20 main quantitative and qualitative criteria, including financial performance, technology innovation, social value, sustainability of the business model and development of the company in each industry. Previous Swedish Red Herring winners include Skype, Spotify and Klarna; internationally Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Amazon, Twitter, YouTube, eBay and Salesforce have won the award.
”It is fantastic to receive this award from Red Herring for our security solution Safeture and its ability to make the world safer for users,” says Andreas Rodman, CEO of GWS. “It recognises the quality of our service, which means a lot when we are selling to large companies as we expand.”
Safeture provides safety information in real-time via mobile phones and gives users the possibility to avoid hazards. It is a solution for both corporations and private use.
List of Finalists 2015 Red Herring: http://www.redherring.com/events/red-herring-europe/2015-finalists/
About GWS (Global Warning System)
GWS provides a mobile-based personal security service to businesses and consumers to protect employees, family members and individuals when they travel abroad.
The company uses mobile positioning technology and a warning system to help protect individuals against disease outbreaks, terrorist attacks, natural disasters and other potential threats. The company was founded in 2009, based on the experiences from a global SARS epidemic, the tsunami in the Indian Ocean and the terrorist attack in Mumbai, where people could have been warned earlier and received more information.
The company’s app is called Safeture; more information about the app is available at www.safeture.com
The GWS share is listed on NASDAQ OMX First North Stockholm. Sedermera Fondkommission is the company’s Certified Adviser.
For further information please contact CEO Andreas Rodman, +46 (0)708-10 13 16 or andreas.rodman@globalwarningsystem.com
Global Warning System meets a growing need to protect employees and family members when traveling abroad, through tracking and by providing valuable real-time information on disasters and other threats that can affect a traveller.
