KONE ranked as one of the world’s most innovative companies again

KONE is one of two engineering services sector companies that reached the top 50, and remains the only elevator and escalator company ever to have made it to the top 50.

Forbes magazine’s ranking is based on a metric called the “Innovation Premium”. It is a grade bestowed by Forbes upon a company as a measure of the premium of the stock market has placed on the value of the company due to expectations of future innovative products, services, and new markets that will generate even larger income streams.

As the Forbes ranking shows, innovation is one of KONE’s key success factors. “KONE is a pioneer within the elevator and escalator industry. We continuously look for opportunities to develop our products, services and processes in order to deliver a better customer and user experience and to improve our performance in eco-efficiency,” said Vu Nguyen, managing director for KONE Vietnam.

KONE’s innovations are setting a benchmark for the whole elevator and escalator industry. In June 2012 the company launched its new volume elevator offering that will serve the buildings and cities of the future with leading eco-efficient performance, premium ride comfort, award-winning design, and improved space efficiency.

KONE is one of the global leaders in the elevator and escalator industry. The company has been committed to understanding the needs of its customers for the past century, providing industry-leading elevators, escalators and automatic building doors as well as innovative solutions for modernization and maintenance.

In 2012, KONE had annual net sales of EUR 6.3 billion and around 40,000 employees.

Since 2006, KONE has appointed Thien Nam Elevator Stock Company as its distributor for the sales, installation and maintenance of all KONE equipment in Vietnam. In 2009, KONE opened a fully owned subsidiary of KONE Corporation in Vietnam.