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HILDEN, Germany, June 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

- QIAGEN proclaimed the overall winner of the 7th "Best Innovator" Award sponsored by A.T. Kearney and business magazine WirtschaftsWoche

- Innovative personnel processes, clear anchoring of innovation within the corporate culture and a global innovation management strategy decisive to QIAGEN's success

- Over 100 companies in Germany from different industries participated

QIAGEN is the company with the best innovation management in Germany, concluded the jury at this year's "Best Innovator" award sponsored by the strategy consulting firm A.T. Kearney and the German business magazine WirtschaftsWoche. The judges were impressed with QIAGEN's approach towards a global and cross-functional innovation strategy anchored within the general corporate culture and aimed at stimulating "out of the box" thinking by all employees irrespective of their position in the company. This strategy set QIAGEN apart from the competition, which was made up of renowned companies active in a wide variety of different fields. The award for the overall winner is to be officially presented to QIAGEN this evening in Berlin by Ernst Burgbacher, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology.

 

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