Vipservice Celebrates Another “Fruitful Year”

On 8 August, Vipservice staff started their working day with fresh fruits and berries for breakfast. Vitamin treats are symbolic: the time has come for the company’s annual "harvesting" — its birthday. For the first time, the holiday was celebrated in the Holding’s own media centre, according to tradition, by counting “ripe fruits” and rewarding the best “farmers”.

And this year's harvest is rich: opening an office in Germany, launching the HotelStar hotel aggregator, renovation of the 5th floor for new Holding’s business assets — CWT and Paxport, — creating a corporate website and establishing the Holding’s own Corporate University. The Holding's corporate businesses may also boast outstanding achievements, having increased their efficiency by 25% due to restructuring. Besides, this year marks the 10th anniversary of Vipservice’s leading IT products — Biletix and Portbilet.

For these “tasty fruits”, Holding’s top managers received presents from Executive Director, Irina Solovyova — baskets with gifts of nature and... “fly agaric”:  so that the managers would not feel dizzy with success, because in small doses this mushroom has a healing effect.

Next, Vipservice employees received awards from Dmitry Gorin, CEO of the Holding, by categories. The Discipline category turned out to be one of the most important. Airline tickets to Riga from Air Baltic were raffled off among those employees who excelled in a high degree of self-organization. Also, the employees who stood out in the categories that embody the Vipservice brand missions — Reliability, Creativity, Dedication — received gifts.

The up note of the holiday was the appearance of a “group of graduates” in robes and square academic hats accompanied by Gaudeamus Igitur. These were MBA graduates: Aleksey Kushkin, head of the corporate business commercial service, and Dmitry Semykin, commercial director of the sub-agent business, headed by EMBA holder Irina Solovyeva. They dressed in such a way to solemnly announce the names of the first group of students of the prestigious MBA management courses. The training will take place in the new Vipservice classroom under the program of the Higher School of Economics. This is a gift to the company’s top managers from the shareholders of the Holding.

“It would seem that when the company invests in our knowledge, it gets no additional profit here and right now.  But there are two very important things that justify this investment. First: the system education does not provide what big business needs today. And these programmes help us complete our studies and understand how to become more successful in the present-day conditions. And second: when we study together, we begin to develop a team approach, look at business development in the same way. For me, as a manager, it's all about it.  Congratulations, colleagues!” said Irina Solovyova in her speech.