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Growth Champion 2018

iesy among top 500 growth champions

5. June 2018

For the third time in a row, Statista and FOCUS have identified Germany's companies with the highest growth in sales. iesy, for the first time, is one of 500 growth champions with the highest revenue gains between 2013 and 2016.

The overall ranking, consisting of 500 companies, has already been published in the December issue of FOCUS BUSINESS magazine (12/2017). For this ranking, the data of around 3.5 million companies published in the business registers were evaluated. “Since 2010, we have been growing continuously in sales, projects and employees,” says iesy Managing Director Martin Steger, adding: “With the latest developments in Industry 4.0, Internet of Things and digitization, we are looking optimistically to the future.”

In the category “electronics, electrical and medical technology” iesy was placed among the top 20 companies analysed. With over 50 years of company history, iesy is also the second oldest company in the overall ranking, which is otherwise dominated by companies founded around the 2000s or later. In addition, the analysis by Statista and FOCUS revealed further interesting details: The conurbations of the growth champions are Berlin with 42 companies, Hamburg with 33 and Munich with 24. Most frequently, 2018 growth champtions come from the sectors “IT, internet, software and services”, followed by “retail (incl. mail order and ecommerce)”. In addition, the number of 47,000 jobs created by the top 500 companies throughout the survey period emphazises the economic importance of company growth in Germany.