Growth in this year will be another 20%
\nVDL expects turnover to continue to grow in 2018 to approximately \u20ac 6 billion, a rise of 20 percent. All the divisions will contribute to this growth, President and CEO Willem van der Leegte said today. \u201cWe expect solid growth, above all in high-tech and automotive. More of our companies will continue to profit from the economic situation.” <\/p>\n
VDL Groep achieved growth across the board in 2017, as compared to 2016. The industrial family business with headquarters in Eindhoven, saw its turnover, result and numbers of employees grow, last year. In addition, VDL is seeing the continuous broadening of its role as a subcontractor. <\/p>\n
VDL Groep\u2019s combined turnover rose from \u20ac 3.208 billion in 2016 to \u20ac 5.049 billion in 2017, a rise of 57 percent. The net result rose from \u20ac 150 million in 2016 to \u20ac 153 million in 2017. The number of employees rose in 2017 by 2,781 to 16,137 at the end of 2017. 85 percent of all employees work in the Netherlands, the highest percentage over the past few decades. VDL Groep has a solid equity position and is a financially healthy family business.<\/p>\n
\u201c2017 was a challenging and enervating year for VDL Groep,\u201d commented President and CEO Willem van der Leegte. \u201cThe past twelve months has been hallmarked by the organisation of our growth. The fact that we have once again succeeded in growing across the board is evidence that we remain in a state of flux, on all fronts. 2017 was a good year for VDL Groep.\u201d<\/p>\n
2018<\/strong> Growth in this year will be another 20% VDL expects turnover to continue to grow in 2018 to approximately \u20ac 6 billion, a rise of 20 percent. All the divisions will contribute to this growth, President and CEO Willem van der Leegte said today. \u201cWe expect solid growth, above all in high-tech and automotive. More […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1568,"featured_media":504736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[482,6267,9361],"location":[],"article_type":[],"serie":[],"archives":[],"internal_archives":[],"reboot-archive":[],"class_list":["post-129581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sustainability-nl","tag-economy","tag-vdl","tag-willem-van-der-leegte"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":{"subtitle":"","text_display_homepage":false},"author_meta":{"display_name":"Bart Brouwers","author_link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/author\/brewbart\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/VDL_Hoofdkantoor52-8_YXJfMTI2MHg4NDBfZF9qcGdfL19hc3NldC9fcHJpdmF0ZS9uZXdzLzI0_d7d0ff7c.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Sustainability<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Sustainability<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["economy<\/a>","VDL<\/a>","Willem van der Leegte<\/a>"],"unlinked":["economy<\/span>","VDL<\/span>","Willem van der Leegte<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 8 years ago","modified":"Updated 8 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on February 23, 2018","modified":"Updated on February 23, 2018"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on February 23, 2018 2:16 pm","modified":"Updated on February 23, 2018 2:16 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129581"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=129581"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=129581"},{"taxonomy":"serie","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/serie?post=129581"},{"taxonomy":"archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archives?post=129581"},{"taxonomy":"internal_archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal_archives?post=129581"},{"taxonomy":"reboot-archive","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reboot-archive?post=129581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nVDL Groep began 2018 as expected: turnover is above last year\u2019s level. The total turnover in the first 7 weeks of this year amounted to \u20ac 733 million and is thus higher than in the same period last year (\u20ac 569 million). The order book (excluding VDL Nedcar) is up from \u20ac 769 million at the end of 2017 to \u20ac 816 million in week 7 of 2018. Van der Leegte: “The outlook is positive. We will also continue with the policy implemented to date by strengthening our organisation, tightening focus and continuing to invest broadly in 2018.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"