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AU Financial Review
20-07-2025
- Business
- AU Financial Review
The year that changed everything for Australian wine
I can remember exactly where and when the Australian wine industry changed forever. It was mid-afternoon on Monday, June 17, 1996, at Darling Harbour in Sydney. Downstairs, in the huge exhibition hall, hundreds of winemakers were pouring chardonnay and shiraz for thousands of punters at the first Wine Australia event. The biggest showcase of its kind ever staged, it had been opened a couple of days earlier with much fanfare by then-prime minister John Howard. In the conference room upstairs, I was surrounded by dozens of people in business suits, listening to Len Evans, chair of Wine Australia, launch a document called Strategy 2025. It was a bold vision. 'By the year 2025, the Australian wine industry will achieve $4.5 billion in annual sales by being the world's most influential and profitable supplier of branded wines, pioneering wine as a universal first choice lifestyle beverage.'
Associated Press
10-04-2025
- Automotive
- Associated Press
DEKRA continues on a path of growth and transformation
Future-oriented business model ensures successful fiscal year 2024 Revenue and EBIT increased again in 2024, despite a volatile environment Number of core employees grew further DEKRA is very well positioned in its 100th anniversary year as it successfully transforms from a traditional vehicle inspection provider into a leading independent expert for digital and software-defined mobility STUTTGART, Germany, April 10, 2025 /CNW/ -- DEKRA remained on track in 2024, again growing its business in a volatile economic and geopolitical environment. Global revenues increased by 4.7% to 4.29 billion euros, rising by 7% in the core business—excluding temporary work. EBIT improved by 4.2% to 266 million euros, while EBITDA rose by 5.4% to 480.1 million euros. Moreover, DEKRA's core workforce grew by 800 employees to around 33,000. In total, some 48,000 experts work for the world's leading non-listed testing, inspection, and certification organization. 'Thanks to our future-oriented business model, we were able to ensure robust revenue and earnings growth in another year of substantial economic tensions. The decision to focus on the key megatrends of Future Mobility, Sustainability, Cybersecurity, and Artificial Intelligence with our 'Strategy 2025' was essential to our economic success in 2024,' said DEKRA CEO Stan Zurkiewicz at the company's Annual Press Conference at its headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany. 'Our people are our greatest asset. That is why we are proud to have continued expanding DEKRA's core employee base in turbulent times like these,' added DEKRA CFO and Human Resources director Wolfgang Linsenmaier. 'This is strong testimony to the resilience of DEKRA's business model and our clear-cut ambitions going forward.' Contact Marie Hertfelder Phone +49.711.7861-1360 Fax +49.711.7861-741360 DEKRA e.V. Corporate Communications Handwerkstraße 15 70565 Stuttgart, Germany
