Renewed Double-digit Sales Growth "Pushes" HARTING Technology Group Ahead

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ESPELKAMP, Germany, Dec. 8, 2018/PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/--

    Sales up 13.4% to EUR762 million / 341 new jobs worldwide

    Espelkamp-based HARTING Technology Group (district of Minden-Luebbecke)

once again achieved double-digit growth during the 2017/18 financial year (30

September). Notching up an increase of 13.4%, the globally active family-owned

company achieved sales of EUR762 million (previous year: EUR672 million),

setting yet another record in its 73-year corporate history.  

    "This is a top-notch performance that makes us proud. We're very satisfied

with the development of our business," said Board Chairman Philip Harting.

"HARTING is a trailblazer and partner of Industrie 4.0." Harting noted that

growth had been driven particularly by momentum from the transportation,

mechanical engineering, automation and robotics market segments. The number of

employees (including trainees) increased to 4,980 during the course of the

2017/18 financial year (previous year: 4,639), an increase of 7.4%. Some 77 new

jobs were created in Germany (3.1%), while 264 employees were hired at foreign

production sites and subsidiaries (12.3%).

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    About HARTING:

    The HARTING Technology Group is one of the world's leading providers of

industrial connection technology for the three lifelines of Data, Signal and

Power and has 13 production plants and branches in 44 countries. Moreover, the

company also produces retail checkout systems, electromagnetic actuators for

automotive and industrial series use, charging equipment for electric vehicles,

as well as hardware and software for customers and applications in automation

technology, mechanical and plant engineering, robotics and transportation

engineering. In the 2017/18 business year, some 5,000 employees generated

sales of EUR 762 million.

    Additional information at www.HARTING.com [http://www.HARTING.com ]    

    Contact:

    HARTING Stiftung & Co. KG

    Detlef Sieverdingbeck

    General Manager

    Communication and Public Relations  

    Marienwerderstr.3

    32339 Espelkamp

    Phone: 05772-47-244

    Fax: 05772-47-400  

    Detlef.Sieverdingbeck@HARTING.com

SOURCE: HARTING Stiftung & Co. KG