We have participated in the TOP 100 innovation competition and received the TOP 100 seal 2023. This award is only given to the most innovative companies of the German medium-sized business sector.
The "Top 100" competition is based on a scientific selection process. On behalf of the organizer of the comparison 'compamedia', the innovation researcher Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Franke from the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and his team examined medium-sized companies from a wide range of industries on the basis of more than 100 criteria from five categories.
We successfully participated in this selection process and is thus among the top 100 awarded companies since February 01, 2023.
Marbach Managing Director Bernd Klenk: "Innovations advance a company and ensure its sustainable success. This year we participated in the Top 100 competition for the first time. In the course of our 100-year company history, there have been numerous Marbach innovations, some of them became market standards. We have registered numerous patents and industrial designs over the decades. We are very pleased to be among the most innovative medium-sized companies in Germany according to the test criteria of the Top 100."
On June 23, all the top innovators of 2023 will come together in Augsburg for the award ceremony at the German SME Summit. There, Ranga Yogeshwar will also award Marbach as a Top 100 company and personally congratulate them for their success in the innovation competition.
About the TOP 100 competition.
Since 1993, compamedia has been awarding the TOP 100 seal to medium-sized companies for special innovative power and above-average innovation success. Since 2002, scientific management has been in the hands of Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Franke. Franke is the founder and director of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. With 26 research awards and over 200 publications, he is one of the leading innovation researchers internationally. The mentor of TOP 100 is science journalist Ranga Yogeshwar. Project partners are the Fraunhofer Society for the Promotion of Applied Research and the BVMW association of small and medium-sized enterprises. The magazines 'manager magazin' and 'impulse' support the company comparison as media partners, and 'ZEIT für Unternehmer' is a cooperation partner. More information and registration at www.top100.de.