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? 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. GROHE inclusion in this
list secures it the little 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, alongside
renowned corporations such as Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, Samsung
Electronics GmbH, adidas AG and Miele & Co. KG. Says Michael
Rauterkus, CEO of Grohe AG says: “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.”