DVJ Insights wins FD Gazelle for the 7th consecutive year – 10 years of growth!

Utrecht, October 21^th 2024 – DVJ Insights has received the FD Gazelle for the 7^th year in a row, meaning 10 years of consecutive growth of at least 20% per year. The award celebrates the fastest growing and most consistently expanding companies in the Netherlands. Remarkable is the consistency of this growth in a market that faces more and more competition from AI, self-generated data and Do it Yourself Solutions. Another finding that stood out is that this growth is completely organic and realised without any acquisition or merger. DVJ is still a fully owned private company.

Lucas Hulsebos, owner of DVJ Insights commented on this remarkable achievement by sharing his secret. A company can only grow if the people in the company share the ambition to succeed. The past ten years we had the opportunity to recruit the best people in the market and when you provide these people with the best possible tools, guidance and education success comes automatically. We also believe that the passion of these people makes the difference. For that reason, we have a daily measurement system in place to monitor how happy the company is and what we need to do to improve happiness.

The second part of success is the ambition to build relationships that are based upon positivity, added value and commitment. We do not walk away from choosing to stop the co-operation with clients if these elements are missing. If people in the company are not happy, we are not able to accelerate and help our clients to grow. By putting this central in the way we work we have been able to build amazing relationships with our clients that last for many years.

Besides people we also share the ambition to continuously improve ourselves. Working and supporting the academic world helps us by finding the best ways to do research. This in combination with continuously monitor the needs from our clients via vision interviews and large-scale studies we know better how to help them to answer their questions and help our clients to grow. That is much easier if you practice what you preach by growing ourselves as well.

We consider growth not as the target or the objective, but as the result of a strong and consistent strategy. Winning the first Gazelle in 2018 was already a big achievement, winning it now for the seventh time is truly amazing. A recognition for the hard work of an amazing team and proof that consistency in marketing works.

THE FD GAZELLE 2024

The FD Gazelle Awards, organised by Het Financieele Dagblad (the leading financial newspaper in the Netherlands), are being presented for the 21st time this year. To qualify for this prestigious accolade, companies must have demonstrated a minimum turnover growth of 20% over the past three years and closed the final year with a profit. A total of 927 companies in the ‘Large’ category have met these criteria for the FD Gazelle Award.