Press release

Enschede

March 2009

Design award for Indes

The Sprizer succeeds in red dot design award

With its outstanding and innovative design, the Sprizer succeeded in one of the most renowned and hardest international design competitions worldwide. In the red dot award: product design competition the Sprizer was awarded the “red dot” quality seal for high design quality by the top-class expert jury. This award is only conferred to particularly creative, innovative, and high-quality products. In total 3,231 products from 49 nations faced the expert judgement this year. The festive awards presentation with more than 1,000 guests will take place on 29 June 2009 in the Essen Opera House, the Aalto Theatre.

The Sprizer

The Sprizer, the inflatable high-low bed is an innovative product facilitating home care. An alternative to the high-low bed, it obviates the need for traditional blocks and bed carriers.

Indes designed the product and produces it for Arion International from Geleen.

“Successful products are in so far different from less successful products that they can survive in the real world,” explains design expert Professor Dr. Peter Zec, initiator of the red dot design award. “Successful participation in a design competition can already be an initial sign of a product’s later commercial success, because these competitions allow an objectification of otherwise often very subjective design decisions.” Receiving an award in an internationally renowned design competition such as the red dot design award was therefore an important indicator whether a product had the potential to succeed internationally.

Products submitted to the red dot design award are assessed by an international jury consisting of renowned design experts. They examine and test the products and assess them according to criteria such as degree of innovation, functionality, ergonomics, longevity, ecological compatibility and clarity of function. This year companies from 49 countries with a total of 3,231 products faced the judgement of the jury.

Indes BV

In 1987, Henk Janssen established INDES as an independent industrial design agency. Nowadays is Indes one of the biggest and most professional design agencies in the Netherlands. The Headquarters of Indes is situated in Enschede with about 35 employees. In Ningbo, at the Chinese organisation are 4 people working.

INDES provides services in design & engineering , consultancy and production management.

The focus markets of Indes are: Human Care, Medical Cure and User Comfort

The red dot design award

Today, the red dot design award, the origins of which go back to 1955, is the largest and most renowned design competition worldwide. It consists of the individual disciplines “red dot award: product design”, “red dot award: communication design”, and “red dot award: design concept”. In 2008 the competition recorded around 11,000 entries from 61 nations in total.

For further information please visit the following websites:

www.indes.eu

www.Arion-group.com

www.red-dot.de/press

Press contact:

Indes B.V.

Marketing & Communication

Monika Hendriks

0031534803927

monika.hendriks@indes.eu