Continued growth, significant investments in the expansion of production facilities, and further development of digital offerings: At today’s press conference in Düsseldorf, the Vorwerk Group Managing Partners, Reiner Strecker, Rainer Genes and Frank van Oers, announced the figures for the past fiscal year, 2016, and the Group’s plans for the coming years.
In the 133rd fiscal year in the history of the company, the Vorwerk Group’s total revenues were up 4.1 percent to 3.1 billion euros (not including VAT). Moreover, the Group generated an increase in business volume, which also includes the new business of the akf group, which totaled 1.2 billion euros. With a volume of 3.8 billion, Vorwerk achieved a year-on-year increase of 4.7 percent.
A look at the German market reveals that the Vorwerk Group is also up on last year. Taken together, all of its German activities generated 7.1 growth in sales to 1.1 billion euros.
At the financial press conference in Düsseldorf, the spotlight was very much on the subject of digitization, which Vorwerk is approaching at many different levels.
“Some of our present products already feature a digital interface, and in the future, all of our products will,” the Managing Partners stated. It is not a question of