Opportunities in SME sector
On the following matters we look in more
depth at the electrical engineering and
mechanical engineering industries.
The German ‘Mittelstand’, small and medium-
sized companies, often family-owned, play
an important role in these industries and
together generate a large part of the sector’s
turnover. We are talking here about medium-
sized by German standards, since these
companies can easily have a turnover of
€ 1 or € 2 billion. The combined turnover of
companies with fewer than 500 employees in
the two sectors will be close to € 200 billion
this year. 34%
It is precisely this large group of family-
run companies in Germany that seems to
represent largely virgin territory for Dutch
suppliers.
EU Forecast
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