Zühlke Group achieves record revenues as demand for innovation rises

27.04.2012

In 2011, the Zühlke Group, which provides software and product engineering, management consulting and start-up financing, achieved record results. The company grew its revenues by 30 percent to 68 million Euros, and added 100 new specialist staff across the Group. Zühlke Ventures ended its first year in business by concluding deals to finance the two high-tech start-ups DSwiss and Swisstom.

Zühlke supports both high-tech start-ups and established businesses by operating as a sector-independent partner for innovation and solutions. “Partnerships are an important instrument for performing fine-tuning along the road to innovation leadership,” explains Wolfgang Emmerich, CEO and Chairman of Zühlke Engineering Ltd. To be competitive at the global level, businesses need to increase their rate of innovation. “As well as product innovation, process innovation is playing an increasingly important role.” adds Emmerich.

Zühlke sees mobile and cloud computing as important trends providing opportunities. Increasing mobile connectivity is creating new innovation possibilities. Zühlke supports its customers by creating custom mobile applications, and working to seamlessly integrate these apps into existing enterprise systems and business processes. Cloud computing is another area where the Zühlke Group is helping customers to realise huge opportunities to improve business processes – providing infrastructure, platforms and applications as a service to enable cost reductions, and the shortening of provisioning lead times.

The Zühlke Group today has local teams in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. In 2011, Zühlke generated EUR 68 million in revenue, employing more than 500 staff.

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