In the first six months of 2018, the Würth Group reported sales grew 6.5% to EUR 6.8 billion (US$7.92 billion), led by a 7.9% increase in sales to EUR 2.9 billion in Germany.

“We still expect that we will be able to report sales and operating result records again in 2018,” stated Robert Friedmann, Chairman of the Central Managing Board of the Würth Group.

In the first six months of 2018, the largest single company of the Würth Group generated sales of EUR 811 million. Würth’s operating result improved by 19.4% to EUR 400 million.

The number of employees increased 2.7% to 76,134. In Germany, the number of employees amounts to 23,305, an increase by 4.9% on the previous year. The Group currently has 32,898 sales force employees on the payroll. Web: Wurth.com