Van Ons has been named FD Gazelle 2017 and thus joins the group of 754 fastest growing companies in the Netherlands. The award is presented every year by Het Financieele Dagblad to companies that have achieved a turnover growth of more than 20% in the past three years.

Robert van Eekhout and Bas van der Lans about winning the award: “We are of course very proud of this. For almost 11 years we have been developing with great passion and pleasure websites and platforms for the most beautiful brands and companies and that we now belong to this group of fast growers feels like the icing on the cake. It is especially a huge compliment for our team and shows that we have found a method that works.”

Analysis by the FD among this year's Gazelles shows that the fast growers spend an average of 6% of their turnover on innovation. This is higher than the average of 2,1% calculated in the Innovation Monitor of Erasmus University.

At Van Ons, we firmly believe that innovation is the key to growth. That is why we founded the Van Ons Lab on January 1 of this year, where we, ourselves or in collaboration with customers, develop ideas and dreams into tangible prototypes. And our team also spends a lot of time on development and innovation. In our Cowlabs, the developers at Van Ons are given the space to make demos and try out techniques that they think are the future. Innovation is progress!

From U.S is still competing for the Golden Gazelle Award, which will be presented on November 14 in Leiden.