Keller & Kalmbach again awarded as TOP innovator

Family owned company is one of the most innovative medium-sized companies in Germany 

Unterschleissheim, 01 Februrary 2023: Keller & Kalmbach GmbH has convinced with its innovation qualities and received the TOP 100 seal for the second time. Only highly innovative medium-sized companies get this award. 

Keller & Kalmbach GmbH is once again one of the 100 most innovative companies in Germany. The company was founded 145 years ago in Munich and today, with 1,000 employees worldwide, is one of the leading suppliers of fasteners, fastening technology and other C-items for production and maintenance. 

The established specialist for C-parts management demonstrates its innovative power again through customized solutions, self-controlling logistics concepts, highest product quality and, last but not least, through the logistics platform Logtopus®, which opens up completely new possibilities in supply chain management. 

The company's top performance is confirmed by well-known customers from a wide range of industries such as the automotive and commercial vehicle industry, mechanical and plant engineering, the railroad industry, the agricultural and construction machinery industry and the electrical industry. 

Since 1993, compamedia awards the TOP 100 seal to medium-sized companies for special innovative power and outstanding innovation success. Since 2002, scientific management is 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 scientific awards and over 200 publications, he is one of the leading international innovation researchers. The mentor of TOP 100 is science journalist Ranga Yogeshwar. Project partners are the “Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft” for the Promotion of Applied Research and the “BVMW-Bundesverband mittelständischer Wirtschaft”. 

The Top 100 competition is based on a scientific selection process. On behalf of compamedia, Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Franke and his team analyzed Keller & Kalmbach on the basis of more than 100 criteria from five categories: Innovation-promoting top management, innovation climate, innovative processes and organization, external orientation/ open innovation and innovation success. 

TOP 100 focuses on the question of how important the innovation goal is in the company", says the scientific director of the competition. "Do routines and habits dominate, or has the company the skills to analyze the existing, think creatively in new directions and implement them successfully on the market? We evaluate this ability on the basis of more than 100 test criteria," explains Prof. Dr. Franke. 

On June 23, all the top 2023 innovators will come together in Augsburg for the award ceremony as part of the German SME Summit. The magazines manager magazin and impulse support the company comparison as media partners, "ZEIT für Unternehmer" is a cooperation partner. 

More information is available at www.top100.de.