隠れたチャンピオン
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隠れたチャンピオン（かくれたちゃんぴおん、ドイツ語:Hidden champions,ドイツ語略称:H.C.）は、ドイツのハーマン・サイモン によって提唱された経営学上の用語。比較的規模は小さく、一般的な知名度は低いが、ある分野において、非常に優れた実績・きわめて高い市場シェアを持つ会社のことを指す。
ドイツの経営思想家であり、コンサルティング会社サイモン・クチャーアンドパートナーズ創業者でもあるハーマン・サイモンが、ドイツのビジネス出版物のタイトルとして使用し、ドイツにおける小規模だが、高度に専門化され、世界市場でもリーダーとなっている企業群について説明したことから広まった概念である。 [1]
ハーマン・サイモンの定義によれば、隠れたチャンピオンとは、以下の3つの基準を満たす企業のことを指す： [2]
「隠れたチャンピオン」のリスト
ハーマン・サイモンが、2009年に選択した「隠れたチャンピオン」企業のリストを下記に掲載する [3]
- 3B Scientific (anatomical teaching aids)[4]
- Corticeira Amorim (cork products)
- ARRI (cinema cameras)
- Belfor (removal of fire and water damages)
- Beluga Shipping (heavy-lift shipping company; insolvent)
- Bobcat Company (farm and construction equipment)
- Brainlab (medical software and hardware)
- Friwo Gerätebau GmbH (charging devices, power supplies, led drivers, battery packs)
- De La Rue (security printing, papermaking and cash handling systems)
- DELO Industrie Klebstoffe (adhesives for chip cards)
- Embraer (regional jets)
- Dickson Constant (technical textiles for blinds, truck sheeting etc.)
- Enercon (wind turbines)
- Essel Propack (tubes for toothpaste)
- EOS GmbH, (rapid prototyping systems)
- Josef Gartner GmbH (facades for skyscrapers, subsidiary of Permasteelisa)
- Gallagher Group Limited (electric fencing, livestock, weighing equipment)
- Hans Gerriets (single manufacturer of large stage curtains)
- Hamamatsu Photonics (optical sensors including photomultiplier tubes)
- Heraeus Electro-Nite (measurement, monitoring and control of molten metal processes)
- HiFi-Tuning (developing, engineering of finest fuses, out of pure silver & gold)
- Höganäs AB (powdered metals)
- International SOS (medical assistance, health-care, security and risk management services)
- Jamba!/Jamster (cell phone ring tones)[5]
- Austrian Jungbunzlauer (Sodium acetate)
- Klais Orgelbau (large organs)
- Swiss Lantal Textiles (cabins for passenger aircraft)
- McIlhenny Company (Tabasco sauce)
- Molex (electronic components, including electrical and fiber optic)
- NetJets (fractional ownership and rental of private business jets)
- Nissha Printing (small touch panels)
- Nivarox (regulating mechanism inside wristwatches)
- Rud. Baader (supplier of fish processing systems)
- Omicron NanoTechnology (scanning probe and tunnel-grid microscopes)
- Orica (industrial explosives)
- Phoenix Contact (terminal blocks, connectors, interface solutions, industrial automation)
- PLANSEE (high performance materials)
- PERI GmbH (formwork and scaffolding)
- Petzl (climbing gear, caving gear, work-at-height equipment)
- Q-Cells (solar energy, solar cells)
- Radiall (electronic interconnect components)
- Sachtler (tripods for movie cameras)
- SAES Getters (Getter producer)
- Sappi (coated fine paper)
- Schwank (industrial heating)[6][7][8]
- SGS, Société Générale de Surveillance (inspection, verification, testing and certification services)
- Tandberg and Polycom (videoconferencing systems)
- O.C. Tanner (company) (employee recognition programs)
- Technogym (fitness equipment)
- Tetra (company) (aquarium and pond supplies)
- ULVAC Technologies, (vacuum technology)
- Universo S.A. (wristwatch hands)
- W.E.T. (car seats heating)
- Webasto (remote-controlled heaters for cars)
- Worldwide.energy (Green Energy)
- Zimmer Holdings, DePuy, Biomet, and Stryker Corporation (all implants, and located in the area of Warsaw, Indiana)