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29/11/2016

Antura a Gazelle Company for five consecutive years

Every year, Swedish business daily Dagens Industri rewards the fastest-growing companies in Sweden with the Di Gazelle award. For the fifth consecutive year, Antura has met the criteria to receive the distinction.

Antura is receiving the Gazelle Company distinction for the fifth consecutive year, making it one of the best Swedish companies at generating profitable growth and creating new jobs. In the Gazelle competition’s 16-year history, the growth masters have jointly generated more than 215,000 jobs in total.

–We are proud and delighted to receive the DI Gazelle award again this year. Together we have created growth by delivering high quality services to our clients. We now look forward to continuing our expansion, says Mattias Andersson, CEO Antura Group, who received the diploma at the Gazelle Gala in Gothenburg on November 22.

Gazelle criteria

To receive a Gazelle award the company must meet the following criteria, based on its four most recent annual reports:

  • Net sales in excess of SEK 10 million

  • At least 10 employees

  • At least a twofold increase in net sales between the first and latest financial year

  • An increase in net sales for the past three years

  • An overall positive operating profit for the four financial years

  • Organic growth, rather than through mergers and acquisitions, in all essentials

  • Healthy finances

Antura was also a Gazelle Company in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015.

 

Mattias Andersson, the CEO of Antura Group, received the diploma at the Gazelle Gala in Gothenburg on November 22.

Mattias Andersson and Anders Haglund of Antura, and some of the company’s board directors: Patrik Bergström, Bo Steiner and Fredrika Hörlin.

About the Gazelle Companies

The term “Gazelles” was created by the American researcher David Birch. By the 1980s, he was showing that it is the small, fast-growing companies that are creating most of the new jobs, unlike the economy’s elephants, which always need to streamline and often reduce employment.

In addition, Gazelles differ from the very smallest companies that work to make a living and are not primarily aiming to grow.