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BALANCE SHEETS June 2018
Successful fiscal year 2017 for WISAG
Sales increase of five percent and around 1000 employees more
Ralf Hempel, Chairman of the Management Board of WISAG Facility
Service Holding GmbH.
Photo: WISAG
With around 32,000 employees
and sales of 1.067 billion
euros, WISAG Facility
Service Holding GmbH has
successfully closed its 2017 financial
year. The five percent
increase in sales compared to
the previous year is primarily
due to organic growth; the
individual service areas developed
at different rates. The
change in the labour market
and digital change are two
important topics with which
the real estate specialist has
intensively dealt - and which
will remain top topics in the
future.
Markets and technology landscapes
are changing at an enormous
speed. The increasing
dynamism means that companies
are in a permanent change
process. „The challenge here is
to manage change with a sense
of proportion and to act successfully
without overtaxing
the organization and partners
in the market,“ says Ralf Hempel,
Chairman of the Management
Board of WISAG Facility
Service Holding GmbH. The
company succeeded in doing so
again in 2017. Compared to the
previous year, the turnover of
the real estate specialist rose by
five percent to EUR 1.067 billion,
the number of employees
increased by 961 to a total of
32,102. Business with large and
small and medium-sized customers
was expanded to about the
same extent.
Both Facility Management (+
15.4 %) and Garden and Landscape
Management (+ 20.2 %)
posted double-digit and thus
above-average sales growth.
Building Services (+ 8.0 %),
Cleaning (+ 3.6 %) and Security
& Service (+ 9.1 %) also developed
positively. Only Catering
recorded a year-on-year decline
in sales (- 9.2 %). The reason for
this is a decline in demand for
food for first-time care facilities,
as the number of people who
fled to Germany has declined.
In contrast, the company catering
sector increased its sales by
around five percent.
„The increasingly noticeable
shortage of manpower presents
us with great challenges. However,
it also holds opportunities
for us as a service provider,
because it also drives our customers
around and thus influences
our business,“ says Ralf
Hempel. He expects that smaller
companies in particular will
focus more strongly on their
core business and increasingly
outsource facility services. In
addition, employee satisfaction
is gaining in importance for
companies in view of the shortage
of manpower. An attractive
working environment plays an
important role here, and Facility
Services has a major influence
on this. „Ralf Hempel is convinced
that the attractiveness of the
job is increasingly turning from
a cost factor to a survival factor.
Essential starting points of WI-
SAG Facility Service to counter
the shortage of manpower are:
breaking new ground in recruiting,
increasing the training
quota, expanding the training
and further education offer -
also in the direction of digital
competences - and making oneself
better known and more attractive
as an employer.
WISAG Facility Service is also
driving digital change with a
sense of proportion. „Digitalization
makes many things
possible, but not everything is
necessary,“ says Ralf Hempel.
„With all these visionary ideas,
we must not lose sight of today
and tomorrow - here, even
without talking about digital
technologies, we still have tasks
ahead of us.“
Drees & Sommer posts significant growth
Fiscal 2017: Strong increase in Group sales and operating profit
The internationally active
consulting and project management
company Drees &
Sommer was able to continue
its growth course of the past
decades in the 2017 business
year.
Group sales rose from 334.8
million euros in 2016 to 380.1
million euros.Earnings also increased
again to 45.0 million
euros. The equity ratio is 36.0
percent. In addition to market
leadership in project and
construction management in
Germany and Switzerland, the
partner-led company is now one
of Europe‘s leading providers
of real estate consulting, particularly
in facility management
consulting and user experience
(UX).
Steffen Szeidl, Member of the Executive Board of Drees & Sommer
SE. Photo: Drees & Sommer
Steffen Szeidl, Member of the
Executive Board of Drees &
Sommer SE, explains what has
proved particularly successful at
Drees & Sommer: „In all our projects
we rely on our well-founded
technical and process knowledge,
which is now based on almost
five decades. We combine our
services with innovative methods
and digital processes. This includes
the digital planning method
BIM - and the related modularization
of components - as well as
digitization strategies for smart
commercial buildings, but also
the consistent application of lean
construction management during
the construction process. In
what we do, we always focus on
adding value to our customers in
terms of efficiency, cost or return
on investment“.