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Hidden Champions 2024/25

In the ninth edition of the Hidden Champions Study, 1,055 executives from major German, Austrian and Swiss companies rate a total of 30 specialist consultancies in 20 functions and eleven sectors as being better than the mainstream firms McKinsey, BCG and Bain & Company.

Hidden Champions by area of expertise

Hidden Champions by function
Function
Hidden Champions

  1.  
  2. Deloitte
  3. Accenture
  4. Oliver Wyman
  5. Kearney

  1.  
  2. McKinsey
  3. Bain
  4. Oliver Wyman
  5. Roland Berger

  1.  
  2. undconsorten
  3. BCG
  4. McKinsey
  5. Strategy&

  1.  
  2. Bain
  3. Batten & Company
  4. McKinsey
  5. BCG

  1.  
  2. Deloitte
  3. Accenture
  4. Oliver Wyman
  5. McKinsey

  1.  
  2. Accenture
  3. BCG
  4. McKinsey
  5. Deloitte

  1.  
  2. BCG
  3. McKinsey
  4. Accenture
  5. Oliver Wyman

  1.  
  2. H&Z
  3. TARGUS
  4. McKinsey
  5. BCG

  1.  
  2. McKinsey
  3. TARGUS
  4. Bain
  5. Staufen AG

  1.  
  2. McKinsey
  3. BCG
  4. Roland Berger
  5. Bain

  1.  
  2. McKinsey
  3. IMP
  4. BCG
  5. Bain

  1.  
  2. Roland Berger
  3. Accenture
  4. Oliver Wyman
  5. Deloitte

  1.  
  2. McKinsey
  3. Oliver Wyman
  4. Kearney
  5. Roland Berger

  1.  
  2. Simon, Kucher & Partners
  3. Bain
  4. BCG
  5. McKinsey

  1.  
  2. Oliver Wyman
  3. BCG
  4. Accenture
  5. Deloitte

  1.  
  2. Simon, Kucher & Partners
  3. BCG
  4. Deloitte
  5. McKinsey

  1.  
  2. Accenture
  3. Deloitte
  4. BCG
  5. McKinsey

  1.  
  2. Roland Berger
  3. McKinsey
  4. BCG
  5. Deloitte

  1.  
  2. BCG
  3. Bain
  4. McKinsey
  5. Oliver Wyman

  1.  
  2. McKinsey
  3. BCG
  4. AdEx Partners
  5. Bain
Hidden Champions by sector
Sector
Hidden Champions

  1.  
  2. McKinsey
  3. BCG
  4. Roland Berger
  5. Oliver Wyman

  1.  
  2. McKinsey
  3. BCG
  4. Bain
  5. Oliver Wyman

  1.  
  2. McKinsey
  3. Oliver Wyman
  4. BCG
  5. Kearney

  1.  
  2. McKinsey
  3. Roland Berger
  4. BCG
  5. Deloitte

  1.  
  2. McKinsey
  3. BCG
  4. Oliver Wyman
  5. Kearney

  1.  
  2. Roland Berger
  3. Strategy&
  4. McKinsey
  5. Accenture

  1.  
  2. BCG
  3. McKinsey
  4. Bain
  5. Roland Berger

  1.  
  2. McKinsey
  3. Kearney
  4. Accenture
  5. Strategy&

  1.  
  2. Accenture
  3. PwC
  4. KPMG
  5. Roland Berger

  1.  
  2. Roland Berger
  3. McKinsey
  4. BCG
  5. Accenture

  1.  
  2. BCG
  3. McKinsey
  4. Bain
  5. Oliver Wyman

Snapshots of the Hidden Champions

30 Hidden Champions. 30 winners' photographs.

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Executive Summary

The Hidden Champions Study 2024/25 presented in one document.

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Who was interviewed?

1,055 executives from major German, Austrian and Swiss companies with an annual turnover of at least half a billion euros were surveyed - including 136 executives from DAX 40 companies.

Methodology

The Hidden Champions Study is based on solid quantitative methods, which are supplemented by modern qualitative approaches at the intersection of economics, psychology and social sciences.

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Die Studie „Hidden Champions des Beratungsmarktes“ wurde seit 2003 bereits neun Mal aufgelegt und ist das älteste Qualitätssiegel für Berater in Deutschland – mit hoher Reichweite und entsprechender Beachtung im Markt.

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