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WINNER: Active Char Products

MD: Razin Rahman

CATEGORY: Star SME – Manufacturing (Small)

The Kochi-based company manufactures activated carbon, used for water purification, as well as in other industries as varied as food and beverages, pharmaceuticals and petrochemicals. It is a highvolume producer with an operating capacity of over 5,000 metric tonnes per annum.

WINNER: MPIL Steel Structures

CMD: Ashwani Gupta

CATEGORIES: Star SME – Manufacturing (Medium);

Best Green SME (Medium)

Headquartered in Mumbai, it specialises in heavy and light steel structure projects, making custom-design fabricated structural steel products and cold-rolled formed sections.

WINNER: Poddar Global

MD: Sunil Poddar

CATEGORY: Star SME – Trading (Medium)

It supplies imported and indigenous newsprint to more than 300 newspapers and magazines, apart from others in the publishing industry. This Delhi firm owns warehouses at several urban centres with a combined storage capacity of 300,000 sq. ft.

WINNER: Magnum Seafood

CHAIRMAN: Ramesh Mahapatra

CATEGORIES: Star SME – Agriculture

(Medium); Best SME for CSR (Medium)

This Bhubaneswar-based company exports fish and fishery products across the world. Its plants process around 4,000 tonnes of seafood per annum.

WINNER: Sequel Logistics

CMD: Sharad Jobanputra

CATEGORY: Star SME – Services (Small)

This Ahmedabad-based firm provides secured logistics services to dealers in gems and jewellery, bullion, fashion accessories and financial instruments.

WINNER: Vidres India Ceramics

MD: Vishal Trivedi

CATEGORY: Star SME – Trading (Small)

It makes products used as raw material by the ceramic industry. Its customers include Nitco, Kajaria Ceramics and H&R Johnson (India). The Ahmedabadbased company’s revenues have risen from`12 crore in 2006/07, when it started, to `50 crore in 2010/11.

WINNER: Rameswar Agro Industries

MD: Sukhmaya Das

CATEGORY: Star SME – Agriculture (Small)

With a production capacity of nearly 200 tonnes daily, this Bhubaneswar-headquartered company has emerged as a fastgrowing processor of raw and boiled rice.

WINNER: Frontier Lifeline

CHAIRMAN & CEO: Dr K.M. Cherian

CATEGORIES: Star SME –

Services (Medium); Best SME for International Trade (Medium)

It is a tertiary cardiac care centre in Chennai set up by renowned heart surgeon Dr K.M. Cherian. Its focus on research and specialised treatment draws many foreign patients.

WINNER: Sri Biotech Laboratories India

CMD: Dr K.R.K. Reddy

CATEGORY: Best SME for Innovation (Medium)

In its 17 years of existence, this Hyderabad firm has indigenously developed 40 bio-organic products in the areas of crop nutrition and crop protection. It has grown tremendously in the last three years.

WINNER: Ishita Drugs & Industries

MD: Jagdish Agrawal

CATEGORY: Best SME for Corporate Governance (Small)

It makes pharma ingredients and fine chemicals for companies such as Pfizer, Nicholas Piramal and Zydus Cadila Healthcare. It is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange as also in Ahmedabad.

WINNER: Black Rose Industries

ED: Anup Jatia

CATEGORY: Best SME for Corporate Governance (Medium)

It operates primarily in two areas: chemicals and textiles. Headquartered in Mumbai, it exports a variety of fine and speciality chemicals. Its five-member board includes three independent directors.

WINNER: MKC Fruits India

DIRECTOR (FINANCE): Mohd Nassir

CATEGORIES: Star SME – Agriculture(Small); Best SME for CSR (Small)

The Ghaziabad-based firm is involved in contract farming and fruit trading. It buys fruit directly from farmers and sells it to bulk buyers such as Future Group and Aditya Birla Retail.

WINNER: Artifacts India

PROPRIETOR: Ravindra Sharan

CATEGORY: Best SME for International Trade (Small)

For the last seven years, this Delhi-based company has been the largest manufacturer of handmade paper products such as stationery, storage and packaging items. An export-oriented unit, it has many customers in Europe and the US.

WINNER: North East Medical Care & Research

MD: Dr Hiteshwar Baruah

CATEGORY: Best SME in North East India

It runs a 100-bed multi-specialty hospital in Guwahati, Assam. In a span of 10 years, it has emerged as a strong brand in the delivery of health care services in the north east. It is building another 200-bed hospital in Guwahati, which will be ready by end-2013.