The EOS Group: With head and heart in finance
Facts and figures at a glance
| Earnings before tax (EBT) | 2010/2011: EUR 76.8 million (previous year: EUR 61.6 million) (accounting under IAS/IFRS) |
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| Companies | The EOS Group was founded in 1974 under the name of Deutscher Inkasso-Dienst (DID) and belongs to the Otto Group. Companies in the Group have provided the full range of services under the umbrella of the EOS brand since September 2000. |
| Headquarters | Hamburg |
| Subsidiaries | More than 45 companies operating in over 20 countries |
| Locations | Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia/FYROM, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom and United States |
| Business model | The EOS Group is among Europe’s leading financial services providers outside the regulated bank and insurance industries. Its range of services covers the following operations: marketing information, business risk information, receivables managementReceivables management covers customer contact, written and by telephone, as well as the control of payments of... receivables management and payment services. The main focus is on receivables managementReceivables management covers customer contact, written and by telephone, as well as the control of payments of... receivables management. |
| Board of Directors | Hans-Werner Scherer (Chairman), Klaus Engberding, Justus Hecking-Veltman, Paul Leary sen., Christos Savvides, Dr Andreas Witzig |
| Number of employees | > 8000 |
| Number of clients | EOS has approx. 20,000 clients in a variety of sizes – ranging from publicly traded blue-chip companies to small and medium-sized companies. |
| Sales | 2010/2011: EUR 371 million (previous year: EUR 314 million) |
