April 25, 2024

Innovation story

Peter Wallenberg Award 2024 - Space strategy

The winners created a successful space strategy meeting the booming market for space simulation systems.
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The Peter Wallenberg Marketing and Sales Award, established in 1996, is presented each year to reward excellent salesmanship as well as the development and field implementation of more advanced and customer adapted marketing sales methods.

This year, the award goes to Bharat Mhatre, Thomas Palten and Alexander Richardson in the Scientific Vacuum division within the Vacuum Technique Business Area.

Peter Wallenberg Award 2024 winners - Bharat Mhatre, Thomas Palten and Alexander Richardson

In times when populating the moon is a new vision for many national sales programs around the world, the team behind the SPACE strategy have used a structured marketing approach to explore new growth opportunities for Space Simulation Systems. Using a structured business development and focused product platform portfolio, Scientific Vacuum are set to achieve impressive growth rates and revenues. Early successes are now being scaled to further brands and across the globe, with which the team is truly shooting for the stars!

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