Today, July 5, the best businessmen, investors and patrons of the city have been rewarded in Astana city akimat as part of the 16th anniversary of the capital. This information is given to astana.kz by the press service of Astana city akim’s office. The annual premium “The best metropolitan entrepreneur”, “The best metropolitan investor” and “The best metropolitan patron” has been established for the first time ever this year. The premium is to evaluate the development level of entrepreneurship according to types of economical activities, to find truly successful enterprises, and to systematize working experience of the best entrepreneurs of the capital and share it with the others. The contest has been held from June 5 through July 5, consisting of 2 stages: the elimination round for applications was held on June 5-25, 2014; and the final stage included results summarizing and awarding ceremony. The contest included three nominations: “The best entrepreneur”, “The best patron” and “The best investor”. Participants were evaluated according to the following criteria: a participant’s activities in solution of social and economical tasks of the district (participation in district events, fairs, expositions); social responsibility (the number of retained and newly created work places, presence/absence of backdated salaries, tempo of increase/reduction of the average wage of employees of small and medium business, etc.); and the level of presentation material elaboration, as well as evaluation of materials presented at the contest in the context of their topicality. The contest winners are: -  “The best entrepreneur” nomination  - Alzhankulov Nurlan Lesbekovich (general director of “ALIT” LLP); -  “The best patron” nomination – Rakhimbayev Aidyn Zhumadilovich (the head of BI Group, chairman of the Board of Directors); -  “The best investor” nomination – Sadyk Bolat Kenesbekuly (the president of the group of companies “Zhannur-Astana” LLP).   http://astana.gov.kz/en/modules/material/5433