Organisational background   Verbund Knozern is Austria’s leading electricity supplier company and the country’s largest producer and distributor of electrical energy.

  Organisational background   L'Incontro is a non-profit, social cooperative based in Castelfranco Veneto, in north-eastern Italy. Founded in 1991, it manages residences and job centres aimed at rehabilitating people with psychological problems or individuals who are socio-economically marginalised. Since its inception, the cooperative has grown and generated other cooperatives, and today it heads a consortium of 11 linked productive units, operating in the following sectors:

  Organisational background   Volvo Cars Company (VCC) develops and manufactures motor vehicles. Its subsidiary, Volvo cars Torslanda (VCT) in Gothenburg, Sweden, manufactures almost 38% of VCC’s annual car production. Ford Motor Company has owned VCC since 1999. VCT is divided into three production areas: the body shop, painting and final assembly. It also includes a service unit, Special Vehicle & Services (SVS), and support functions that are responsible for quality, logistics, economy, personnel, technique, operating security and information.

  Organisational profile   Polyfelt AG is an international stock company and a 100% subsidiary of the Austrian oil company OMV (Österreichische Mineralölverwaltung). Its headquarters, largest production unit, and research unit are all based in Linz, Austria. The company’s other production sites are located in France, Malaysia and Australia. Polyfelt produces, distributes and researches natural geo-textiles and geo-synthetics, for example, tarpaulins and foils to stabilise supports for roads, railways and dams. Polyfelt is the world market leader in geo-textiles.