The commercial services company Selplus is the winner of EDPartners Awards 2014, the initiative launched by EDP to distinguish the excellence of its suppliers. In this edition CGI, Made to Work (by side), DHL Supply Chain and Eurico Ferreira were also distinguished.

EDPartners was created in 2012 to promote the alignment of suppliers with the values of the EDP Group and simultaneously contribute to the dissemination of good practices and improvement in the national business competitiveness.

This annual initiative has a dual format, alternating roadshows in international markets with contests. In 2013, EDP accompanied several dozen domestic companies to China and Brazil, and promoted dozens of contacts and links between the suppliers of the various countries.

The 2014 initiative, which culminated in the award ceremony held yesterday, was attended by 111 companies with 140 projects. The Innovation Award was the category with the highest number of applications, followed by the Sharing of Best Practices Award, Customer Relations Award and Corporate Social Responsibility Award.

It was up to the Faculty of Economics and Management of the Catholic University of Porto, an EDP partner in this initiative, to review all projects and the Technical Committees, to select the finalists in each category. The final winners in each category, as well as the Supplier of the Year, are selected by a panel of managers and entrepreneurs, that are role models in the Portuguese economy.

EDPartners is one of the many company's initiatives to create a relationship of trust and partnership with its stakeholders. Like the customers, employees and shareholders, suppliers are essential to the sustainability of EDP Group and the performance of its mission.

Winners 2014:
• Supplier of the Year, Selplus.
The company, specializing in providing commercial services, worked with EDP in addressing some of EDP Comercial customer segments. The good performance of the company has contributed significantly to the good perception customers have of EDP
• Corporate Social Responsibility, Eurico Ferreira
Family-based company, Eurico Ferreira is active in the area of infrastructure maintenance, especially electric. The company's social involvement in Mozambique and the curriculum in this area in Portugal earned them the award in the category.
• Innovation, CGI IT

The technology has developed a solution that allows the improvement in the gas network fault management service with EDP, an unique tool in the global market.