Footbalance honoured as top high-tech company

Red Herring names Footbalance as one of the year’s most “bold and far-reaching private tech companies” in the world

Footbalance is pleased to announce its selection as a candidate for Red Herring's 2011 Top 100 Global award, honoring the year’s most bold and far-reaching private technology companies and entrepreneurs from across the globe. The Red Herring is a global media company uniting the world’s best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums.

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The Red Herring editorial team will select 100 companies demonstrating the most innovative technologies and business models originating from more than 1000 companies from more than 40 nations. These companies are judged on technology innovation, financial performance, growth criterion, management's execution standards, potential globalization of the strategy and market share improvement. The finalists are invited to present their winning strategies at the Red Herring Global forum in Los Angeles, December 5-7, 2011. The Top 100 winners will be announced at a special awards ceremony on December 7 at the event.

“Technology companies are becoming the bright spot in the economic outlook based on their increasing role within macro-economic environments,” says Alex Vieux, Chairman of Red Herring. “An unprecedented number of entrepreneurs are attempting to jump ahead of the competition and aspire to make a difference. Footbalance has performed exceptionally in its field and strongly deserves to be singled out as one of the Red Herring Global Finalists."

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