The strong turnover growth rate of 11.7% underlines the road to success, which the company has been following for 15 years now. In spite of a significant increase in raw material prices, the turnover could still be increased from €278.6 million to €311.3 million. The Cash Flow developed from €34.1 million to €38.1 million. As in past years, the Preanalytics division, with its collection system for human and veterinary samples, achieved stronger growth than the BioScience division. BioScience manufactures products for research and biotechnology. Greiner Bio-One Preanalytics increased the turnover by 15%. Greiner Bio-One BioScience’s growth rate was 7%. The third company division, MediScan, was able to record a growth in turnover of 5% for the year 2010.

The total of employees increased as well. In December, 1572 persons were working at Greiner Bio-One. Compared to 1472 employees in the year 2009, this means an increase of 7%. With the new production location in Rainbach and the new research centre, a total of 120 jobs were created.
In accordance with the global business strategy, expansion of capacities has been invested in heavily, totalling 44 million Euros. In June 2010 construction of the new logistics centre began in Kremsmünster. With optimisation of processes and the use of a fully automated inventory management system in combination with high tech warehouse logistics, prompt delivery to customers across the world will in future be guaranteed.