GROHE among Germany’s most innovative companies
Seal innovator of the year
Large-scale expert survey carried out by brand eins Wissen and
Statista
What makes a company an innovator? And how do you recognise an
innovation? brand eins Wissen, the corporate publishing subsidiary
of brand eins Medien AG in Hamburg, and Statista, the operator of
statista.com, the leading statistics portal, wanted to find the
answers to these questions.
They asked 2,056 representatives of companies that have won an
innovation award as well as 4,326 experts of Atheneum Partners, a
global knowledge transfer and research network, about the most
innovative industry representatives.They suggested 1,800 companies,
of which 256 made it onto the top list. One of these companies is
Grohe AG, which thus belongs to Germany’s most innovative companies
and won the title of “Innovator of the Year 2016”.
The 256 companies from 20 different industries were assessed in
three areas of innovation, namely products, processes and corporate
culture. GROHE falls into the consumer goods category, which also
comprises such renowned corporations as Henkel AG & Co. KGaA,
Samsung Electronics GmbH, adidas AG and Miele & Co. KG. Says
Michael Rauterkus, CEO of Grohe AG: “We are proud that the experts
have acknowledged our ability to innovate and put us on the top
list. It is a great honour to have been chosen from among this
large number of world-famous innovators. We will now aim to live up
to our title of Innovator of the Year 2016 and to continue taking
the sanitary fittings industry forward with more innovative
technologies, designs and products.”