We found out who the largest in business are in Slovakia

Comprehensive data from hundred of companies.

Hundreds of companies and institutions filled out questionnaires for the Largest in Business yearbook. The latest edition is available in our online shop.

In this story, you will find out which company paid the most in taxes, where are the largest aquaparks or ski resort.

The rankings provide ratings in 50 different categories and show which sectors or companies have grown the most.

In this shorter online version of the story, you can read about all the top-ranked companies. More comprehensive results with detailed information about the largest companies are available in the yearbook, Largest in Business. The project has been created in cooperation with Sme daily, and the Finstat company. The key parameter for these rankings was revenue, but in some categories it was a combination of several criteria, like turnover or the number of employees. Within the financial sector, the ranking was typically based on the value of assets.

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Strong economic pillar

Shared service centres (BSCs) are among the most important clients that occupy the most office space in Slovakia. They employ tens of thousands of highly qualified people.

According to the BSC Forum, these companies contributed more than €700 million to the state budget in employment taxes and levies last year. The largest of them is the American firm IBM.

Other important brands operating in this segment are AT&T, Dell, Deutsche Telekom, Henkel and Accenture.

“80 per cent of the services provided by the centres in Slovakia have to do with finance, IT and customer relationships. If you look at the map of surrounding countries, customer or business development and IT stand out in all those other countries, but finance not as much as it does in Slovakia,” said Peter Rusiňák, AmCham Senior Policy Manager & AmCham BSCF Coordinator.

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The idea that these companies only serve as call centres often persists. That was true of them in the nineties. Today, they solve much more sophisticated tasks.

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