Chili Publish wins national prize in Belgium

Chili Publish has been named as Belgium’s Most Promising SMB by UNIZO in a national competition.

Pictured (from left): Chili Publish COO Bram Verniest, CEO Kevin Goeminne and CTO Joeri Paeleman

UNIZO (Unie van Zelfstandige Ondernemers) is a Belgian advocacy group dedicated to protecting the interests of entrepreneurs, sole proprietors and professionals in all fields and at all socio-economic levels in the Flemish region, both at a federal level and in the European Union.

Chili Publish’s flagship product is Chili Publisher, an online document editor that features more than 150 editing, layout, and design tools that can be used with a variety of document formats, including PDF files, XML-based documents, Collada files and those imported from Adobe InDesign. Chili Publisher also provides users with the ability to view edits, folding and even personalized objects, in 3D.

Administrators can give users varying degrees of access, depending on their skills and permission level. All job sizes and formats, from single pages through multi-page documents and snippets of articles; up-to to the most complex, odd-sized, folded die-cuts and packaging items, are accepted. Users can also create documents in Chili Publisher.

Chili Publish was one of five regional finalists selected for this honor, and the finalists in the competition were presented with their awards on the recent National Entrepreneur Day in Belgium.

Further, the system integrates with a broad range of workflows and production platforms, and system integrators can choose how to incorporate Chili Publisher software into any workflows and applications, such as web-to-print, magazine publishing, packaging, brand management and yearbooks.

Chili Publisher is distributed by a broad and growing portfolio of global partners with Chili Publish.

Bram Verniest, chief operating officer at Chili Publish, said: ‘We are absolutely thrilled to be the recipient of this important recognition.

‘The award is especially exciting in light of the fact that we don’t manufacture a hard goods product, raw materials or machines.

‘Software manufacturing requires the collaboration of a lot of smart, passionate people, and the UNIZO award recognizes those smart and hard-working people that make up the Chili Publish team. My hearty congratulations go out to my colleagues at Chili Publish whose passion and dedication made this national recognition possible.’

Verniest added: ‘The UNIZO award validates our product development and go-to-market strategies, and gives us extra encouragement to continue on the path we have been traveling. We are also grateful to the many partners and customers around the world that have recognized the power of Chili Publisher and have integrated it into their products and daily workflows.’

Pictured (from left): Chili Publish COO Bram Verniest, CEO Kevin Goeminne and CTO Joeri Paeleman