PRESS RELEASE 02/03/2017

BEGO presents Wilhelm-Herbst-Award 2016 to ECHO Ltd., Russia

During BEGO International Sales Symposium (BISS) in January 2017, ECHO Ltd., Russian partner of BEGO, received Wilhelm-Herbst-Award 2016 for its excellent sales performance in conventional dental technology.

“We are very happy to receive Wilhelm-Herbst-Award in Bremen again,” Sergey Molchanov, CEO and owner of ECHO Ltd., stated. The company is a proven reliable partner of BEGO. ECHO Ltd. has been present on the Russian market since 1991 and is one of the oldest and most active BEGO partners worldwide. ECHO is known for its unique sales concept based on training and market development. The company offers to its customers a product-mix optimal for the Russian market, as well as professional support system based on the Training Center invented by BEGO. As of June 2017, ECHO will run “Academia Dental” in Russia, a BEGO project that has been so far implemented only at BEGO head office in Germany.

BEGO, a Bremen-based dental company, rewards its strongest partners for their outstanding marketing activities and achievements in sales of BEGO products worldwide with Wilhelm-Herbst-Award at annual BEGO International Sales Symposium. 81 guests who arrived in Bremen from 31 countries to attend the event, eagerly awaited announcement of the winner.

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Honoured with Wilhelm-Herbst-Award for best sales performance in conventional dental technology. From left to right: Maxim Lobanov, Sales Manager at BEGO Russia, Sergey Molchanov, CEO at ECHO Ltd., Alla Didenko, Sales Manager at ECHO Ltd., Lucyna Poloczanska, Area Sales Manager at BEGO Bremer Goldschlägerei Wilh. Herbst GmbH und Co. KG and BEGO Medical GmbH, and Jürgen Schultze, Head of International Sales at BEGO Bremer Goldschlägerei Wilh. Herbst GmbH und Co. KG and BEGO Medical GmbH.

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About BEGO

BEGO Group is one of internationally leading experts in prosthodontics and implant dentistry. Founded in 1890, the traditional German company has provided dental technicians and dentists with innovative devices, instruments, materials, implants, services and methods of production and processing of dental restorations. BEGO is a privately owned company, run in the fifth generation by Managing Partner Christoph Weiss, and employs a global workforce of approx. 450 people – and this number is continuously growing. In 2015 BEGO was the first company in the dental sector to bring a 3D printing system ("Varseo") out to market, developed in-house both with and for dental laboratories, for production of a wide range of dental restorations made from high-performance resins. BEGO has been a pioneer in dental 3D printing with the Selective Laser Melting technology (SLM) for over 15 years.