{"id":34491,"date":"2021-09-22T11:05:59","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T08:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/?p=34491"},"modified":"2021-09-22T11:10:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T08:10:01","slug":"valinge-founder-darko-pervan-awarded-prestigious-founder-of-the-year-honorary-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/valinge-founder-darko-pervan-awarded-prestigious-founder-of-the-year-honorary-award.html","title":{"rendered":"V\u00e4linge founder, Darko Pervan, awarded prestigious Founder of the Year Honorary Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Darko Pervan \u2014 V\u00e4linge\u2019s founder, former CEO, and industry visionary \u2014 has been announced as the recipient of the 2021 Founders Alliance Founder of the Year Honorary Award.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Darko is a titan of the flooring world, involved in the industry\u2019s leading innovations. Apart from founding V\u00e4linge Innovation in 1993, he initiated and managed the development of the world\u2019s first laminate floor in the late seventies. He also developed the first floor with a mechanical locking system in the early nineties and drove V\u00e4linge\u2019s wood powder project that led to the innovative Woodura\u00ae surface technology that features in the groundbreaking Hardened Wood Floors. Today, he continues to revolutionise the industry as CEO of Pervanovo \u2014 recently announcing plans to build the largest wood flooring facility in the world in Croatia. The company also acquired two Croatian veneer mills in Vinkovci and Otok to become Europe’s largest manufacturer of high-quality FSC-certified oak veneers for the flooring and furniture industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the years, I\u2019ve received many awards, but this one is different,\u201d says Darko Pervan, V\u00e4linge Innovation founder and CEO of Pervanovo Invest AB \u2014 which owns a majority stake in the V\u00e4linge group. \u201cThis award was given to me by my peers \u2014 other founders and entrepreneurs \u2014 and that makes it extra special.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Founders Alliance is a collaborative business forum that, established in Stockholm, Sweden, in 2002. From its roots in Sweden, it has expanded to include 50 international founders with headquarters in 11 countries. The Founders Alliance modus operandi is to help founders of global growth companies and large-scale corporations to form long-term relationships that inspire, develop, and enable more \u2014 and better \u2014 business.<\/p>\n

\u201cDarko is an extremely worthy winner of the Founder of the Year Honorary Award, and everyone at V\u00e4linge is very proud of his achievement,\u201d says Niclas H\u00e5kansson, CEO, V\u00e4linge Innovation. \u201cOur company was built on Darko\u2019s vision and drive \u2014 and those principles guide us to this day as we continue developing our floor and furniture technologies and begin our journey to become the world\u2019s largest, most innovative, and sustainable flooring manufacturer and distributor in our chosen categories.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Founder of the Year Honorary Award is the organisation\u2019s most prestigious. The recipient is deemed to have made a lifelong contribution to sustainable and long-term company building \u2014 and is a role model for other founders, businesses, and society as a whole.<\/p>\n

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Darko Pervan \u2014 V\u00e4linge\u2019s founder, former CEO, and industry visionary \u2014 has been announced as the recipient of the 2021 Founders Alliance Founder of the Year Honorary Award. Darko is a titan of the flooring world, involved in the industry\u2019s leading innovations. Apart from founding V\u00e4linge Innovation in 1993, he initiated and managed the development […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3780,256],"tags":[7335],"class_list":["post-34491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-floor","category-parquet","tag-valinge-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/Darko-Pervan.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orsiad.com.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}