Founded

• 1925 in Esslingen, Germany

Turnover (Group)

• 3.33 billion euros

Number of employees (Group)

• Around 20,600 employees worldwide

Business divisions

• Automation: automation technology
• Didactic: learning systems, training and consulting

Festo customers

• Automation: more than 300,000 industry customers in 176 countries
• Didactic: around 56,000 customers worldwide

R&D investment

• More than 8% of turnover

Portfolio

• Around 36,000 catalogue products in several hundred thousand variants
• Approximately 10,000 customised solutions per year
• Pneumatic, servo-pneumatic and electric automation technology
• LifeTech with medical technology and laboratory automation
• Industry-specific skills development solutions and industry consulting