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04 August 2010 #1
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Saab Automobile Inaugurates Saabs United Award
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http://www.gmeurope.info/press/intl/...nal/index.html
Saab Automobile, now moving forward as an independent premium carmaker, is to present an annual achievement award to any individual who makes the most outstanding contribution to the success of the brand.
The first winner is Tasmanian Saab enthusiast Steven Wade, who received the award in Trollhättan from Saab Automobile CEO Jan Åke Jonsson and Chairman Victor Muller. Steven, a 40 year old auditor, founded the SaabsUnited website and played a lead role earlier this year in rallying global public support for the company during negotiations for its sale by General Motors.
In recognizing Steven’s enthusiasm for the brand, Jonsson said the annual accolade would be known as the Saabs United Award. It will be open to any individual, a customer, member of staff or anyone who makes a special contribution to the Swedish brand’s success. Each year, Jonsson will lead a small judging panel of Saab executives to decide the winner.
The Saabs United Trophy consists of a model of Saab’s first car, Ursaab, mounted on a plinth together with an unlikely partner – a boomerang. This was presented to Jonsson by Wade when protracted discussions for the sale of Saab were successfully concluded. “It is people like Steven and many thousands of Saab fans around the world who really deserve such an award,” said Jonsson. “In a way, you could say I am returning it, which seems quite appropriate.
“The Saabs United award will be made annually as the company’s way of expressing its gratitude to people like Steven and others who continue to show us such great support.”
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04 August 2010 #2
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Awesome! Congrats to Swade!
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04 August 2010 #3
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That is such an amazing thing for any company to do ... recognize that other's help make it what it is.
Good on Saab for having the foresight to do this ... even better that they gave it to the one guy who so rightly deserves it!President, The Saab Club of Canada
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04 August 2010 #4
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Quite an amazing accomplishment starting with a small blog and now getting recognized by Saab for all his hard work. Congrats Swade!
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Wow, that is amazing !
I think he's the only person in the SAAB blogosphere deserving of this award.
What's more amazing is seeing JAJ right up there with the rest of management (was VM there ?) presenting the award. This is one moment I'm sure Swade will never forget."Nulla tenaci invia est via"
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04 August 2010 #6
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It's actually a bit of old news but now being picked up in the press... This thread is the official press release from Saab. But still worthy of discussion.
http://www.saabsunited.com/2010/08/v...-festival.html
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Enthusiast blog Saabs United inspires official automaker award
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Throughout the turmoil of the on again, off again sale of Saab to Spyker, the site Saabs United did its part to rally supporters of the brand and keep the world up to date on what was happening at any particular moment. At one point during the brand's dark days, Saabs United founder Steven Wade presented company CEO Jan Åke Jonsson with a boomerang as a symbol of the head honcho's tenacity when it came to returning to the bargaining table. Now that Saab appears to be headed toward calmer waters, that boomerang has inspired Jonsson to create a Saabs United award.
The award features the very same boomerang along with a model of the Ursaab - the company's very first model - on a plinth. The strange looking award will be handed out annually, and Jonsson says the honor will be given each year to the individual who made the single greatest contribution to the company's success. Fittingly enough, this year the award went to Wade himself. Hop the jump for a look at the full press blast.
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