The automation specialist Turck expects a considerable increase in sales of more than 30 percent for the business year 2010. The managing director of Turck, Christian Wolf, disclosed that the consolidated transaction volume of the Turck-group should exceed 350 million Euro at the end of this year. The number of employees at all 27 sites increased in 2010 about 7 percent to 2.740 employees worldwide. In Germany the family business employs about 1.400 members of staff at its sites in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Halver and Beierfeld.
“After a fantastic year 2010 we are going to position the company for a lasting successful future“, so Wolf. “We are ambitious and target-orientated and therefore want to reach a 400 million Euro transaction volume already in 2011.“ To reach this goal, there will be an adjustment of the model's parameters, according to the managing director of Turck. Among them, there will be the redefinition of regional-, trade- and application specific solution portfolios with corresponding sales and marketing, the reduction of complexity by the modularization and the development of platforms plus the definition of adequate pricing systems for system solutions and service features.
The focus will lie on the internationalization strategy as well. During the upcoming year there will be the formation of two associated companies in Turkey and Brazil. Also planned is the intensification of the sales activities of the associated companies in India and Russia. The branch offices in Austria, Poland and the Czech Republic are about to move into new offices to meet the expected economic growth.
