2012 revenues rise twenty percent (20%) year on year to €82m.

In 2012, the Zühlke Group, which provides software and product engineering, management consulting services and start-up financing, grew its revenues by twenty percent (20%) to a record eighty-two million Euros (€82m). The Zühlke Group also grew the number of services staff at all of its eight locations and at the end of 2012 employed more than 550 people, a growth of ten percent (10%) year on year. In the United Kingdom, Zuhlke Engineering Ltd revenues grew fifty percent (50%) whilst the number of employees increased by thirty percent (30%).

In the UK demand was strong across all businesses including bespoke software development, upskilling Agile software development teams, and consulting. "In today's difficult business environment companies are under tremendous financial and competitive pressure to provide flawless, on-time service to their customers," explains Wolfgang Emmerich, CEO and Chairman of Zuhlke Engineering Ltd. "Even small delays in time to market, or a couple of hours of system downtime can have a major impact on a company's results " adds Emmerich.

In 2012 across the whole of the Zühlke Group, the size of engagements increased as customers used Zuhlke to deliver more of their complete solution. During the year Zuhlke expanded its offerings in customized solutions and procedures including software support services and extracting end to end data lineage from large, legacy code bases.

About Zühlke
Zühlke is an independent service provider for product and software engineering, management consulting and start-up financing. Zühlke provides added value as a result of the experience gained through more than 8,000 successful international projects, as well as continued investment in business and technology knowledge and understanding. Founded in 1968, the Zühlke Group today has local teams in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. In 2012, Zühlke generated EUR 82 million in revenue, employing more than 550 staff.

Media Contact
For United Kingdom:
Zuhlke Engineering Ltd
Justin Cowling
43 Whitfield St
London, W1T 4HD
Phone +44 (0)870 777 2337
jco@zuhlke.com

For Switzerland:
Zühlke Engineering AG
Daniela Reinhard
Wiesenstrasse 10a
8952 Schlieren (Zürich)
Phone +41 44 733 6767
daniela.reinhard@zuehlke.com