Our awards

We do not actively apply for awards, so it is even nicer to receive coveted awards.

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Over 25 years of experience

Over 2000 successfully completed projects

Over 400 customers served

Over 150,000 project days sold

Award

Best Consultant

In a survey conducted by the business magazine brand eins and Statista, the world’s largest online statistics portal, we were voted one of the best management consultancies for the eleventh year in a row in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021. 2022, 2023 & 2024 and achieved numerous top marks from client companies.

For several years, Batten & Company has been repeatedly voted one of the ‘Best Consultants’ in the areas of ‘Marketing, Brand & Pricing’ and ‘Sales, After Sales & CRM’ and in 2021 also made it onto the shortlist for the first time in the category ‘Innovation, Growth’. This puts Batten & Company on a par with consultancies such as Deloitte Consulting, Roland Berger and Porsche Consulting. In 2023, we were once again able to impress and received top marks in the categories ‘Marketing, Brand & Pricing’ and ‘Sales, After Sales & CRM’.

Background to the ranking

Where can you get the best advice for a particular industry? Which consultancy is particularly knowledgeable in this specialised field? Which consultancy can you recommend? These and other questions were addressed by the business magazine brand eins together with Statista. The survey was conducted among more than 3,000 industry experts from consulting and industry.

Consultancies are not eligible to apply for the award, which has been presented since 2014. A total of 1,967 experts (partners and principals of management consultancies) took part in the survey and voted in 19 different areas of work. In addition, recommendations from 1,550 senior employees of consulting clients with whom they have successfully worked in the last four years were evaluated.

The best management consultants of 2024
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Hidden Champion

Batten & Company has been awarded first place by the renowned scientific society for management and consulting (WGMB) as the leading German consultancy in the specialist area of ‘Marketing & Sales’. This puts Batten & Company ahead of well-known consultancies such as Simon Kucher & Partners, McKinsey and BCG in the area of marketing & sales. Batten & Company is also among the top 10 in the overall ranking of all 34 consultancies considered.

Background to the assessment

The aim of the WGMB study is to use a detailed survey of executives from large and medium-sized companies to determine which highly specialised consulting firms are considered by their clients to have greater expertise in their field than the three large consulting firms McKinsey, BCG and Roland Berger.

A consulting firm that wants to qualify as a ‘Hidden Champion’ must, in the opinion of an independent panel of experts, have a fundamental potential to qualify as a hidden champion, which is confirmed in an empirical preliminary study. It must have an unsupported level of awareness among the top management of large German companies with an annual turnover of over 1 billion euros of no more than 15 per cent. It must work for customers, at least half of whom have already worked with one of the consulting firms McKinsey, BCG and Roland Berger.

A consulting firm cannot apply for the ‘Hidden Champion’ award. The preselection is made exclusively on the basis of suggestions by an independent expert committee from science and practice, as well as on the basis of empirical preliminary studies by the WGMB. The study is thus based on a consistently interest-independent and scientifically exact foundation.

Hidden Champions 2024/25
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Top consultant

We are proud to have been named top consultancy in 2024 by the Handelsblatt Research Institute (HRI) in six categories:

  • Banks & Financial Service Providers
  • Family Businesses & SMEs
  • Consumer Goods & Retail
  • Marketing & Sales
  • Strategy & Organisational Development
  • Insurance

The Handelsblatt Research Institute (HRI) has carefully analysed an extensive peer group of 15,700 management consultants from over 335 consulting firms. The most renowned consulting firms were selected through an independent survey that excluded self-assessments and voting cartels. The detailed results of this comprehensive survey can be found here.

These six awards as top consultancy in 2024 confirm our commitment and expertise in the areas of banking & financial services, family businesses & medium-sized companies, consumer goods & retail, marketing & sales, strategy & organisational development, and insurance. We are grateful for the recognition and support of the Handelsblatt.

Our dedicated team is at your disposal to answer any questions you may have about your company. Please feel free to contact us for a personal consultation. We look forward to exchanging ideas with you and achieving new successes together.

Top-Consultants 2024