{"id":330,"date":"2026-04-25T10:36:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T10:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toplas.be\/?p=330"},"modified":"2026-09-25T10:40:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T10:40:40","slug":"martijn-geerits-wins-the-public-prize-of-jci-limburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toplas.be\/en\/martijn-geerits-wint-de-publieksprijs-van-jci-limburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Martijn Geerits wins the Public Award of JCI Limburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Toplas and in particular its CEO Martijn Geerits was awarded at JCI Limburg, an organization for young entrepreneurs and decision-makers. Martijn won the public award. The JCI Award Limburgse Jonge Ondernemer van het Jaar went to Thomas Jeurissen, owner and CEO of the MVT waste processing company from Houthalen-Helchteren. Martijn, together with Thomas Jeurissen, Dorien Breels (Pubmarket) and Tasso Limneos (Victus Sales), was one of the four nominees for Limburgse Jonge Ondernemer van het Jaar.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The award show and the presentation of the prizes took place on April 2 at C-Mine in Genk. A lot of preparation went into the award ceremony: the candidates went through a demanding and instructive process over the months before. In addition to the main prize, JCI Limburg also presented a public award. And that went to Martijn.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10,000 euro media value<br \/>\n<\/strong>Through Made in Limburg, the public could already cast 40 percent of the votes for that prize in advance. The remaining 60 percent was collected through a vote among the audience in the hall. Martijn Geerits won handsomely and was able to take home a cheque for 10,000 euros in media value.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cA team performance\u201d<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u201cThis one feels extra special, because we did this together. A big thank you to everyone who voted, who supported me, who sent a message or just believed in me. Also a big thank you to my team at Toplas. This journey was so much more for me than just a competition. It was months of growth, learning and challenging myself. I took enormous steps as an entrepreneur. And I will carry that with me forever,\u201d said Martijn about it. \u201cOnwards to more growth, more impact and above all: keep doing what I love to do, together with you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toplas and more specifically its CEO Martijn Geerits has won prizes at JCI Limburg, an organization for young entrepreneurs and decision-makers. Martijn won the public award.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-niet-gecategoriseerd"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toplas.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toplas.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toplas.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toplas.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toplas.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toplas.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"https:\/\/toplas.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toplas.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toplas.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toplas.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toplas.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}