Signs point to growth
Things are going well at Beckhoff - record sales in 2021
According to the automation specialist, it achieved the highest turnover in the company's history in 2021 and intends to continue growing.
A successful 2021 financial year lies behind Beckhoff Automation. For the first time in its almost 42-year history, the automation technology specialist from Verl exceeded the one billion euro mark in sales. With a total global result of 1.182 billion euros, the company increased its turnover by around 28 percent compared to the previous year 2020.
"This is a really good result that we are very proud of," says managing owner Hans Beckhoff. His company registered an unprecedented level of incoming orders: "We could certainly have grown even further last year, but the shortage of components and our own capacities set limits in some areas," says Hans Beckhoff, explaining the tense situation in many areas of the industry.
For the German market, Beckhoff recorded an increase in sales of around 27 percent, while incoming orders more than doubled. The company also recorded similar trends in many other countries in which it sells its products. "With one or two exceptions, we saw significant growth in almost all countries with their own sales offices in 2021 - often in the double-digit percentage range," summarizes the managing owner. He explains: "Our two largest subsidiaries in China and the USA also saw strong double-digit growth." As in Germany, incoming orders abroad were usually significantly higher than actual sales growth.
In the past financial year, Beckhoff hired more than 500 new employees worldwide. As of March 2022, the family-owned company now employs 5,000 people (previous year: 4,500): 3,400 of them in Verl and the surrounding area, 3,850 in Germany as a whole and 1,450 abroad. "Having the expertise in-house is an important success factor for us. Beckhoff manufactures complex high-tech products that are developed jointly by many bright minds in our company," says Hans Beckhoff, explaining the comparatively high number of 1,900 engineers currently working for the company.
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