Successful New Year's shed for business

On 2 March, almost 180 business leaders gathered for the New Year's shed in Unge and Kulturhuset in Grindsted.

The New Year's shed was opened by chairman Gitte Ottosen, Billund ErhvervsFremme and featured a New Year's speech from Mayor Stephanie Storbank, who gave her bid for 2022 and her visions for business development in the municipality, as well as a New Year's greeting from CEO Jan Hessellund from Billund Airport. Jan Hessellund told about the visions for the airport and the opportunities for development in our area, and how a two-year pandemic has had a major impact on Billund Airport.

Business Promotion Award 2021

True to tradition, the Business Promotion Award 2021 was awarded. Followed by nice words from local editor Benny Baagø on JydskeVestkysten, who spoke on behalf of the committee, the award was given to factory manager Martin Kirstein Madsen from IFF.

“Throughout the years, Martin Kirstein Madsen has shown extraordinary interest and commitment in Billund Municipality and in particular in Grindsted. Martin has performed in a myriad of contexts and activities, where we have been able to draw on his knowledge, experience and greatly benefited from Martin's commitment, which has also been expressed through attitudes to the development in our municipality ", it sounded, among other things, from Benny Baagø.

Behind the award are Vestjysk bank, JydskeVestkysten, Billund Municipality and Billund ErhvervsFremme.

Lars Brygmann in Greenland

The evening was rounded off with an insightful, present and fun lecture by Lars Brygmann, who with a fantastic story about his trip to Northeast Greenland, together with nine war veterans, inspired to challenge his own borders.

“At Billund ErhvervsFremme we say thank you very much for a wonderful evening in the company of a lot of our members. We look forward to the continued collaboration in 2022 and of course hope that even more people can see the value in being part of our unique and strong business network ”, says director Marie Skov Lillelund, who swung the 'conductor's staff' through the evening.

The year that passed gathered in a small video collage

The New Year's shed in pictures