Tescoma man named entrepreneur of year

The Czech Entrepreneur of the Year award has gone to Petr Chmela, the co-founder and co-owner of Tescoma, a Zlín-based kitchenware company that exports to countries such as Russia and China and has a thousand outlets around the world. The title of Entrepreneur of the Year in the technology category went to Martin Trtílek. He is the owner of PSI, which produces measuring devices for research on plants, algae and cyanobacteria.