Sales, results, and headcount increase at Endress+Hauser

In its pre­lim­i­nary finan­cial fig­ures for 2017, Endress+Hauser report­ed a broad­ly sup­port­ed growth in sales, sol­id prof­itabil­i­ty and a marked increase in employ­ment. The com­pa­ny is a lead­ing glob­al provider of process and lab­o­ra­to­ry mea­sure­ment engi­neer­ing, automa­tion solu­tions and services.
The Group’s con­sol­i­dat­ed net sales rose 4.8 per­cent to 2.2 bil­lion euros. Exchange rate impacts pre­vent­ed the com­pa­ny from gen­er­at­ing even bet­ter num­bers for the year. “Expressed in local cur­ren­cies, we grew more than six per­cent in 2017,” empha­sized Chief Finan­cial Offi­cer Dr Luc Schultheiss.
“The con­sumer-dri­ven eco­nom­ic boom has now reached the cap­i­tal goods indus­try as well,” said Matthias Altendorf, CEO of the Group. High­er demand for the company’s prod­ucts and ser­vices spurred a sig­nif­i­cant increase in new hires, espe­cial­ly in pro­duc­tion. Endress+Hauser had 13,299 employ­ees at the end of 2017, an increase of 296 over the pri­or year.

Into the current year with momentum

Fol­low­ing anoth­er upswing in the busi­ness dur­ing the fourth quar­ter, the mea­sure­ment tech­nol­o­gy spe­cial­ist entered the new year with a size­able rise in back­log orders. For 2018, the fam­i­ly com­pa­ny expects to see growth in the mid-sin­gle-dig­it per­cent range.
The audit­ed finan­cial fig­ures for 2017 will be pre­sent­ed on 8 May 2018 in Basel.