SEW-Eurodrive South Africa was announced as the winner of the Top Gender Empowered Company award in the Mining, Engineering and Construction sector during a recent ceremony held in Johannesburg to celebrate the Top Women in Business and Government Awards. This award goes to the company that demonstrates the most success in tackling and improving gender empowerment in their respective sector.

Accepting the award SEW’s GM for marketing and sales, Ms Ute Bormann, commented that company has made a natural progression towards employing women. In a largely male dominated arena, SEW-Eurodrive South Africa has made a point of employing females in management positions. “We sometimes find our clients taken aback by the fact that it is a woman on the other end of the line, but it has had a positive effect in the industry,” says Bormann.

Women in the company receive the backing of the management team and, according to other female staff in the company, SEW-Eurodrive has uplifted the status of women in the engineering field.

Ute Bormann was also a finalist in the Top Woman Executive Award.

For more information contact Rene Rose, SEW-Eurodrive, +27 (0)11 248 7000, rrose@sew.co.za, www.sew.co.za